Daily Doodle 093 "Fire"
Added 2025-10-25 16:53:15 +0000 UTCCorpse Fires.
"If you're for some reason lost, out in the northern bogs and mires of Daudr Hond, you might start seeing specks of firelight. Emboldened by the prospect of a homestead, you make your way, deeper into the mist.
In stead of a house, you see a shape of a person, or what you think must be a person, holding a lantern. Good! They might be able to help you! Maybe they have some food to share and know the way.
Once you're close enough to see that in stead of a lantern, a sickly dim fire is burning in the palm of their bony hand, you suddenly notice that there's more and more dots of light around you. Wherever you turn, you see back turned towards you. You call out, but none of the shapes turn to reveal their faces. Because once they do, you won't be left to tell anybody about it."
An excerpt from the chapter "Dead Things", from Istvan's collection, "Things best Avoided", Istvan's Bestiarium.
