(Drace)

The trip to the stones was longer than any trips I’ve been on. How did I get there and back home? Who knows.

The blord was flying and asking me questions about the stones. I told him everything I knew a long time ago, but he was still consistent with the questions. I was getting too tired for this. Every time the blord asked me a question, I either told it what I knew or that I didn’t remember.

But then the blord asked me, “Did you feel anything strange while you were there?”

I was sick with the questions. I was sick of thinking, too. So I just stayed there and thought about nothing and just enjoyed the view.

I tried to drown out the blord’s voice. But the the blord started shaking me violently and didn’t stop. But when he did stop, he asked the same question over and over again.

Eventually I got sick of this even more and thought, ‘I don’t remember.’

The shaking stopped. Finally. The blord then asked me a question that was, I think, completely off topic.

The blord asked, “Your father is that neotorn from earlier, right?”

I nodded. I was too tired to answer in words or thoughts. After that, the blord stopped asking me questions. It was silent for a long time.

I no longer felt safe with the blord and thought it was going to kill me.

Thats when we saw the stones. But it looked different than before. The stone circle was the same, but the pillars were gone except one. And that pillar was in the center.

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Once we got close, the blord dropped me onto the stone circle and then landed in front of me facing the pillar.

Then everything felt strange. It felt like something was being ripped from my soul or something. But that wasn’t all.

The pillar in the center disappeared. So did everything outside of the circle. Then seven pillars just appeared out of nowhere.

This made no sense.

This was strange. I could tell that the blord thought that this was strange, too.

I noticed each pillar had a symbol on it. Som elf the symbols looked like things I could make out. But others I couldn’t.

There was a pillar with a skull on it, a water drop, and a snowflake. But I couldn’t tell what the other four symbols were of.

”Where are we?” The blord asked.

I didn’t respond. I was hoping the blord would try to get me to answer.

Then I noticed something strange. One of the symbols I didn’t know was glowing green. The others weren’t glowing at all.

I looked at the blord and thought, ‘Do you know what this means?’

The blord didn’t respond.

I looked back at the symbol to see what it was of. It had a rectangle like bottom and then swirls at the top.

The pillar to the right of the green glowing one started glowing purple. The pillar that was glowing was the one with the skull on it.

I backed up a little. That’s when two large cloud looking things flowed up from the ground and then formed two large domes. When the domes dropped, two large neotorns were there.

These neotorns were black with red patterns. I quickly went and hid behind the blord.

I the neotorns make roars and growls.

Then the blord said, “Please don’t kill me. I will give you something if you don’t.”

I heard more growls and roars before the neotorn stepped to the side.

after a few seconds, I heard more roars and growls. Then the blord said, “This baby neotorn is something that has never been seen before. Let me live, and I’ll tell you why.”

I tried to run away. But then the blord grabbed me and slammed me head first into a pillar. My eyes were fuzzy after that. And my head hurt a lot.

Even though I couldn’t see clearly, I think I saw the blord get smacked by one of the neotorn’s tail.

After that, I sort of was out of it. The next thing I knew. I was being held in the mouth of one of the neotorns. I saw the other neotorn with the blord in it’s mouth.

Everything went bright white. The next thing I knew, we were off the stone circle and the grass was dead. So were the trees. It was also dark.

I felt something sharp cut into my back and torso. After that, I passed out. Most likely from either pain or blood loss. Most likely pain.