Prompt: Immortality*
A scantily clothed woman stood in the center of the room. Around her, were nameless villages, bound against their will, decoratively placed around the circle. Smiling, she clapped her hands, and magik sparked.
"Ah?"
There was a jerk of electricity sparking from the woman, the villagers screamed as the electricity shocked through them. There was a horrified shriek from one of the midwives, her eyes widening as she felt the fluid in her eyes begin to boil.
A ghastly smell began to fill the air, but that hardly bothers the woman in the center, her face wrapped in a veil.
"H-Heeeelp..."
"Please!"
"You'll never get away with this!"
"Help me!"
Their words, no longer comprehensible slurred against their melting flesh, with a final scream, heavy bodies fell against the floor, tears and blood staining the circle.
The woman smiles, the pendent she bears now glows brightly, as if replenished. "Vocruen." She speaks, her voice, as thick has honey that seem to leave her listeners drowned in it's divine sound.
The young boy shivers. "Y..yes milady?" he asks timidly, his red hair touching the stone floor as he bows.
Politeness... it was what all the other servants had warned him. One mistake, and goodness knows what the mistress does to them.
The sorceress rips off the veil, her bright eyes were delighted as if she had been proud of what was done. "Vocruen, won't you be a dear and clean this up?" She asks, stepping out of the center of the alchemy circle.
"Y-Yes, milady." he trembled as she approaches nearer. "H-How do you feel, Master Visrin?"
"Mm..." Auresque Visrin licked her lips. "Much better."
Prompt: Fused**
Keritzel always knew that the Visrin family was a family of sorcerers and alchemists. It was then he knew that the Visrin family had accomplished the impossible; immortality.
Vanishing villagers, missing mages and summoners... he now knew where they had disappeared to.
And he felt sick.
No wonder Veloce smelled of death.
* I've always believed that the philosopher's stone is composed of extracted human souls. I blame this theory from the FMA manga.
**Fused Prompt: this was an idea, that Auresque may have used a philosopher's stone when giving birth, or that Veloce was created by a Visrin through the means of alchemy. Sadly, the latter theory doesn't explain Veloce's belly button.