And the surroundings… they weren’t the kind that would say, "welcoming". A forest as far as the eye can see… the trees’ green leaves that occasionally fall just for another one to take the place on the branch almost immediately once more. This place… though even if you may not have any magical power in you, was already telling you that this worked differently. Had its own set of… rules… to follow.
And those rules… they announced themselves as swiftly as your sudden appearance in this strange place. You felt it slowly creeping up on you. And the feeling… the sudden realization that it now came, seemed to only accelerate the process. You felt tired… weaker… your muscles feeling slightly heavier than before. A sudden pressure pressing onto your shoulders as if the world was trying to press you down into the ground and onto the dirt.
If you had any magical power or another form of energy… it was suppressed… drained… as if the power you tried to pull outwards was being pushed right back into your body. The stronger it is, the stronger the push was, not letting you draw on your power… and containing it inside your body… though even that wasn’t a constant. You felt, as quickly as it replenished, it was also drained once more from your body. The world took and took… strength… magic… energy… a grand meal, it seemed, greedily taking everything and "eating" it to its heart’s content. Connections to the outside… cut off. The feeling was that someone had put a wall right in front of you and whoever it was had cut off any connection that may have been there before, any communication. It was shut off now, blocked out, leaving you thoroughly by yourself.
Just then, all of it hit you; you felt it. A pair of eyes fell on you… scanning over you, thoroughly looking at you. The piercing gaze that makes the weak-willed shiver… and leaves the ones with a strong will with just a cold breeze of air. The gaze, at first… wasn’t really threatening… it was merely scanning… merely… watching… as if you yourself were a wonder that shouldn’t have happened… something that shouldn’t be in this place. But it quickly grew hungry… lustful… as if you were its prey and it was looking at you.
"What a curious surprise~ I never expected… for someone… to enter this place again~ Well, except for one… but…" The voice stops for a moment… considering… thinking… judging, her gaze never leaving your body… leaving you as if you were grounded… not able to move a single muscle… just before she continues once more.
“You aren’t that person… you are someone that she saw…“ The voice lowers itself to a mere growl now, the world shaking slightly around you. The wind blows faster, leaves falling down onto the ground below, branches breaking… just for them to regenerate immediately. And after some moments, it slowly calms… gently… carefully dying down as the voice that was echoing through your mind let out a small sigh. “I’m unsure if we ever met… I don’t really care, actually. All I’m curious about is how you can even be here… and for how long?~“
You feel a small push behind you, not strong… but it freed your legs to move forward. You could once more move your heavy-feeling body, the strength-draining effects always there… never… leaving… never letting you have a moment to recover from the strong push down onto your shoulders or the draining effect. Now though… the choice lies with you… are you going to move forward… towards what you can be sure will bring you closer to the belly of the beast… or remain there… hoping… that the time she spoke of was not that long to endure. So… stepping forward… to see… what the world with no love has to offer to you? Or going to stay right there… resting… till that supposed time ends~
(“Walking“ past this point means that you are interested to see more of this little… “World,” I try my best to describe and bring to life, and supposedly try it in a BEB game~ Just a fair warning there already, this “story“ is less about the heroine winning. Winning here means that you have to satisfy the evil mistress at the end. You can’t take over this place, nor is it meant to be taken over. If that isn’t something for you, then please, no further ^^)
You decided to step forward… walking through the forest that, despite feeling so dense… like there is no real path through, seemed to guide you through naturally, tree after tree slipping past you, leaves falling down onto your shoulders and on the side of your body… as the warm wind that you were feeling just grew with each passing moment… getting hotter the further you stepped through the forest… as the cold you were feeling grew at the same time, leaving your body in the same state as when you first stepped into the forest.
After a… few… moments of walking through it… walking through a forest that felt like it was alive… yet also not, you reach a clearing… a small cliff… a stone almost perfectly set there to sit upon and look down at the view that was stretching before you slowly… of a place, a small valley… the place ever shifting. Moving around to never be the same, to never… appear… as if it can be whole again, as if it was never intended to be. The only constant that remained was a single building in the center of it all… a mansion… the former glory of it still slightly seen… between the ruin and destruction that was brought to the place. Ash, rubble… the building stood there half collapsed, half intact, the only sign… that some kind of life was once lived here.
The surroundings… as if the forest wasn’t enough already… were all different. They kept the same theme… a forested area… but from the distance you could already make out the fiery… almost seeming hellscape that was left on one part. It moved around, switching from the sides to other sides… as it tried to find its space in this world once more. The signs of battle clearly plague the place. There was something there… a long, long time ago… but the scars it brought are still left behind in that place for every passerby to look at.
All the while the other… islands began to float past the valley, the fires never reaching further than the small island they were on… as the rest seemed just as barren as the first. Forests… deserts… the cold, harsh winter… each moment… it seemed weirder. This place itself was weird, as if someone stuffed everything into one tiny space… but there was nothing else here. The chirping of birds could be heard, but through your walk you never saw even one. Wildlife that seemed to rush through the forest, but even there, you should have seen something… anything.
What was this place… what was… all this? There was no direct answer… not yet at least. The only constant was the mansion in the center… the voice… that you heard just moments ago… and small… box-like shapes that appear in certain spots… the moment islands found their place… they connected the islands to one another… working as passageways onto the next island. One thing was clear though… another choice presented itself before you. Either step back… into the forest… waiting out the time… though… was there even still the time for that?~
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