Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-29461586-20150307233515/@comment-5583506-20150309030541

(Last post before I hit the sack, then time-skip.)

Valkyrie twisted and turned in her sleep. She was still running a fever caused by the anemia, but it was mostly the nightmares which were the most disturbing.

She dreamt of how she would ride alone through a great valley, only to come across a single keep located up in the mountains.

There wasn't a single person to be seen. All save for one. High up in the towers, she could have sworn that she saw the slender figure of what could have been her sister.

"Lilja!" she exclaimed and dismounted the horse.

The figure in white didn't seem to acknowledge her presence, and slowly disappeared out of sight behind the windows.

"LILJA!" exclaimed Valkyrie again and began to force the doors to the keep open. "Where are you?"

The keep was quiet and entirely empty. There wasn't even a single furniture to be seen. Somewhere within the keep she heard footsteps echoing in a staircase of stone. She quickly hurried, only to catch a glimpse of the white dress Lilja had been carrying on that fateful day when the majority of the Ghost-Wolf family would meet an ill fate.

"Lilja!"

No response.

There was little choice left. Valkyrie ran after the footsteps, up the stairs, until she reached a single room with a door made out of a murky oak. From within she heard sobs.

She opened the door hastily and was expecting to find Lilja or any trace of the white dress there. Instead she was both terrified and surprised to find Hemming standing there in the room, in his boy clothes. He looked at her apathetically.

"Who... who are you?" asked Valkyrie.

"Don't you recognise me, sis? It's me. Hemming?"

Valkyrie shook her head in denial. "It can't be! You are... you are dead!"

Hemming cocked his head. "Dead?" he asked confused.

Suddenly the light from outside of the keep seemed to turn dark, yet it remained bright within the room she was in.

"Dead?" he asked again and suddenly he had a worried expression on his face.

He looked down on his own fingers and noticed how the skin began to slowly fall off them and how the flesh would sever itself from his bones. His hair turned gray and his scalp turned void of all colours before it fell into chunks on the ground.

His eyeballs began to melt and run out of his sockets. "She... is... actually..."

"STOP IT!" cried Valkyrie at the gruesome sight of her little brother decomposing.

"... right..." he wheezed as his small skeleton collapsed to the floor and was smashed and shattered into a thousand shards.

-

Valkyrie woke up with a scream and with tears in her eyes. Her body and bed was soaked in cold sweat as she rubbed the horrible sight from her eyes. There was no rest for her anymore. She cried bitterly to herself til morning came...