I am like a flare, speeding out of the shaft in the fastest manner possible.

Never underestimate a scared wisp.

My light was illuminating the walls of the mine as I ran for my life.

“...”

Did I forget to say I managed to only make few steps like that?

You see, I got no plot armor here.

The apparition simply needed 2 seconds to win over the fastest-wisp-I-ever-saw me.

And it bound me by using some crude ethereal chains.

I got no idea if magical wisps can accumulate forest humidity, but I swear I feel like I am sweating rivers now.

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My teacher of math in groundschool let our class that one time watch a horror movie and I was scared for one week.

Thinking about strange bathrooms and small girls with long, black hair over their faces everywhere.

And that was knowing that nothing like that can happen to me.

I am not some green, shiny spirit of Christmas to expect peaceful ending here.

I know this can’t be good, when I am being dragged by a glowing monster to the deeper parts of an abandoned mine.

Let’s not speak about the fact that it seemingly got the same constitution, the rare, one-of-a-kind magical origin.

“Will it harvest me for my organs?”

I once saw, when I worked as an assistant, a movie called Bleeding Edge, starring a certain Miss Canada 2015, where they did those things.

I bet 2015 is the number of mystical body parts that can be harvested from me.

Sure, I am no prisoner of conscience, someone from Tibet, doing Falun Gong exercises, or a House Christian, but my new glowing brother is not asking me here for my hobbies or a religion.

“Can we communicate by glowing?”

Frightened more than I ever was, I started to think that by shimmering in a certain pattern I could try to say that I mean no harm.

Then, a sudden sound scared the living daylights out of me.

*ping*

You are being affected by ‘Aura of Dread’ The effect of your magical abilities and stats is reduced by 20%, and further to 30% due to the level difference between you and attacker.

Oh.

Magical skills.

I forgot I can detonate myself.

Oh god.

I got such a bright future ahead of me now.