Author notes- Hello everyone. If you're new welcome and if your not then you get another hello. This, for the most part, will be a collection of short chapters featuring Elise and just one (I promise) official character. Hope you guys like!
Webs among webs. Constant whispers from my children weave themselves through my thoughts, all of them squealing with delight as they knew that their queen was content.
Happy, if you could associate the word with me.
I opened my eyes and was immediately greeted with darkness and the forms of my many webs that decorated my home. I rose slowly from my throne, stretching and popping all of my limbs . I was a little tired but that was a given due to the previous days antics. Guiding dumb sheep to the slaughter was no easy task, especially the curious sheep . But when it came down to it it was rather easy enough, all i had to do was sprinkle alittle bit of charm and they would be under my thumb . It was almost laughable how many men would follow me through the lurking darkness, all in the hopes of attaining my everlasting love.
" how foolish ."
But in a way their "love" is helping me to maintain immortality.
It is for this particular reason that I leave my domain, exposing myself to the shadow isles's forest .Darkness blanketed everything, but with a snap of my fingers nothing could hide from me. The way illuminated for me now, I strode through the lifeless forest, making sure to keep my eyes open for anything particularly interesting.
As I walked I could hear my children mummer to me, ushering me to the location of my next potential meal. I could feel Vilemaws blood pulse through me as I caught the scent of something foreign...
Something young.
How I would enjoy watching their looks of wonder, at why such a ravishing woman would be in such a big and scary forest alone. And then their eyes would drink in my form, all of my curves, like a dog with a new bone wiggled in front of them . Like the seductress I am I'll play along, tempting them to follow me to their salvation.
To my immortality.
Another scent joined the fray, one that was coated with age as well as sweat. Mhmmm...
The more the merrier I suppose, even if the other was somewhat overdue for death.
I stopped behind a thicket of bushes, my eyes scanning across a small clearing.
"What delightful agony you shall enjoy."
My eye twitched in annoyance at the sight of the chain warden, thresh . He was cradling his wicked green lantern in front of him , a maddening smile on the sick green flames that could only be considered his face.
Lying on the ground next to thresh I could see a body of a man, clearly The old one that I had smelled as I could see sprinkles of gray hair . His body laid limp on-top of the dead grass, already become cold and dead.
Just like everything else here.
My eyes scanned around the clearing as I looked for the other.I knew their was another one , a younger one but where? My mind raced , wondering if thresh had already gotten to the delicious morsel. My thoughts were halted however when thresh walked away, swinging his chain casually, or as causally as a psychotic ghost could.
I sighed, mentally scolding myself for not just inquiring from thresh if he had captured more then just the one on the forest floor. I was about to search more thoroughly when I heard a rustle, not too far from me. My eyes shifted to my right, and a smile adored my face as my potential meal was..
It was a child.
No older then 10, running out towards the dead body. Like the dead man , the boy adored raggy clothes as well as a overall messy appearance. Traces of dirt everywhere and not a spot of clean upon him.
I watched in silence as he nudged the body before him.
Once, twice.
"Papa."
Unfortunately I could hear the child's voice, like a knife cutting against me slowly. I was confused. Never before had I encountered a child, much less on the shadow isles. Why was he here, why..
"Papa please," the boy cried out in vain. What part did the boy not understand?! His father was dead and that's just his corpse.
"You'd understand too, if you had a family."
The thought angered me, made my blood boil for only a moment before my thoughts rationalized an answer.
"I do have a family, there all around me."
Crying, I could hear crying. My eye twitched in annoyance as I watched the young boy weep.
"Ohh, did I miss one..."
Of course. The idiotic child attracted the attention of the chain warden. How stupid are these humans nowadays?
"He is a child.."
I sighed, mentally weighing the situation at hand. Thresh was not one for compassion, not that I was either... But something compelled me.
"Oh my, look what we have here." Thresh spoke with glee, not caring about the fact that the boy was cowering away from him.
"Was this, your father? Do not worry, I sent him to a much better place...you should join him..." Thresh grinned madly as he leaned over the boy, his lantern dangling inches away from the boys face.
"Thresh," I interrupted him as I emerged from my hiding place. In my appearance and thresh's momentary distraction , the boy tried to run away. Unfortunately for him thresh immediately grabbed him by the back of his shirt.
"Where do you're think you're going child? You still havn't visited your father yet," he cackled before laughing a mad-mans laugh.
"Thresh," I stated his name clearly in irritation before he abruptly stopped laughing and at stared at me with irritation as well.
"What is it woman? It is bad luck to interrupt a artist at work." He growled.
"The boy...he is mine, I declared before outstretching my hand to emphasize my point.
Thresh looked reluctant, and with good reason. It was not everyday that one such as he could attain souls, at least not without outside help.
"Release the boy, or he shall be the last soul you enjoy torturing for a while," I stated coldly and matter-of-factly.
"How could I deny a ladie's ." He paused before correcting himself,"spider's request," he finished with a grin before shoving the boy towards the me.
"Run along now, least you desire to torment me with your presence."
Thresh only grinned before waving a taunting wave to the boy and disappearing into the forest.
I sighed before casting my eyes toward the boy. I was mildly surprised to find the boys teal eyes staring back up at me.
"Foolish boy," I mumered, turning towards the corpse on the ground. I let out a "hmph" before locking both my hands on the boys shoulders.
"You will follow me, you will not speak unless you are spoken to, and you will not touch anything unless I say otherwise. Disobey any of what I said and you shall find yourself dead ,understood?"
The young boy shook his head in understanding, much to my sanity. Now that that's out of the way...
"What to do with him.."
"What is your name child?"
He looked at me with fearful eyes, his lips quivering as they tried to form an answer. I sighed tiredly. I didn't have the patience to deal with him..
"Guan."
The sound of his voice shook me a little by surprise. It was filled with obvious confusion and fear. This boy was annoyance in the shape of a human though.. I suppose it's understandable to an extent.
"What were you doing here" I asked, gesturing to the land around." This is no place for a child."
His eyes looked downward , and would have continued to do so if I hadn't yanked his head by his chin with my hands.
"It's rude to look away when spoken to boy."
I could see tears Weil in his eyes, and I felt something within me. Something that hurt, not physically but a different kind of pain that I couldn't describe. And then..
I wiped away a stray tear from his eyes.
"Stop your crying boy, " I commanded, my voice coming out softer then I would've have liked.
He wiped his eyes before nodding his head.
"Judging from your clothes, I'd say that you came here on a boat? " after he nodded slowly I was on the edge of asking more questions when a thought passed through my head.
"Let him sleep."
I took a second glance at the boy and noticed the bags under his eyes. I couldn't mask the disbelief on my face as I merely stared at the boy. My gaze must've disturbed him because he kept looking away nervously.
"Are you afraid of spiders boy?" He nodded his head "yes" in response.
"Great," I thought sarcastically.
"Do you wish to live boy?" I waited longer then I would've liked as the question seemed to take minutes for him to answer.
"I will not ask again. Do you wish to live?!" I commanded him to answer, it was such a simple question.
He nodded his head slowly, fearfully.
"Then follow behind me," I told him coolly.
Not two steps after I took did I hear the displacement of footing. I took a glance behind me, surprised to find that the boy was passed out face first in the dirt.
"Of course," I complained dryly.
Today was going to be a long day.