Episode 1
First, everything was white, then color folded out and organized into sounds, and then that sound was a voice. Sita Moon struggled to answer, but felt as though she was forming the words for the first time. The voice made her aware, made her see rocks and trees and the corpses around her, and for the first time she recognized she was separate from those bodies.
Ghosts of history floated in the weapons and armor hanging about her body. Unable still to comprehend their significance, she willed them to burn away in the white-hot light. All of her swords, mails, robes, accouterments, decorations, and rings that adorned her until her body was bereft of equipment. Only the Cthulhu Dagger remained floating before her, responsive to her motions. Sita Moon could feel they had joined, knew the voice emanated from the weapon, but now it was silent.
Sita Moon was not alone. Her perception crept from her body to the world around her. She knew the riverbed like she never knew before, and for the first time acknowledged the water running around her ankles. Above her, trees on the river bank reached out to shield her from the sun. There were dead orcs all around, hacked and mutilated and burned to char. More living orcs and goblins remained along the rim, firing arrows into the metallic dragon that was collapsed in the stream, making feeble attempts to fight back. The dragon was far out of reach with her claws, but still sputtered flame that killed the occasional orc. “StarScream” was written in green above the dragon’s head.
There was Morgoth the Mighty. His name was in red like all the orcs. Morgoth was so fat and bloated his armor strained at the seams. Morgoth charged Sita Moon, in one hand chopping at her with a stone axe any other man would need two hands to swing. Sita Moon dodged, and the stone head buried almost completely into the stream bed, stuck a moment before the great orc could wrench it free. Sita Moon stumbled backwards into a White Knight. His name was “Duke,” also in green. She ducked a swing of his Sun Sword, and the Cthulhu Dagger flew to knock aside a second attack.
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