Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24449631-20140905103828/@comment-5583506-20140908221114

"Well, I don't really know what happened after that", she said. "Whenever I was asleep or alone, dark things - wraiths from another world - would creep out from the shadows and attempt to drag me with them. Accompanied with them came a foul and disembodied voice which claimed that I didn't belong here. I managed to escape them the first time. For whatever reason those supernatural beings haunted me, they wouldn't tell, and I can't think of anything I might have done to anger them."

She made a pause. "They attacked me several times during the night, but each time a managed to elude them... barely... One day when I was alone and miserable and tired after all the things I had gone through, a forest-witch named Riamide took pity on me and gave me this."

She pulled out the wooden sword and showed it to Rowan. "She said it's name was Gastbane, a wooden sword made from the trunk of a ghost oak. It has the ability to banish evil spirits, such as those chasing me."

She showed an expression of anxiety. "It has been effective thus far and the Shadow, as I have come to call the being stalking my every footstep has never attacked me during daylight or public areas before. You saved me from it once. It was the Shadow that tried to drown me in the lake."

There was a lump in her throat. "But now I fear for my life, Rowan. Down there in the basement... it attacked again! In a public place! Within city walls! It has never done anything like that before! I fear it might have gotten bolder than ever before!"