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- Looking for partners
- Posting Speed
- 1-3 posts per day
- Multiple posts per week
- One post per week
- Slow As Molasses
- Online Availability
- On fairly regularly, every day. I'll notice a PM almost immediately. Replies come randomly.
- Writing Levels
- Adept
- Advanced
- Preferred Character Gender
- Primarily Prefer Male
- No Preferences
- Genres
- High fantasy is my personal favorite, followed closely by modern fantasy and post-apocalyptic, but I can happily play in any genre if the plot is good enough.
The moon was high in the sky, casting a silver radiance over the grassy field that stretched out in front of a luxury Class A Camper Motorhome. Despite the lateness of the hour, the moonlight streamed in upon a young, dark haired woman, who was leaning with her hands cupping her chin against one of the windows. Her eyes seemed vacant, and clearly she was not actually seeing the rolling hills of Kentucky that sprawled out in front of her.
Reisha Bannon had been waiting for a clear night with a bright moon for nearly two months. Now that it had finally arrived, she suddenly realized that waiting for the night was no longer going to be an excuse for her. If she was planning to go, now was the chance. If she didn’t go… Well, then. She’d just have to give it up. Go back to the seemingly endless seances her parents organized, back to looking people in the eye and smiling as she lied to their faces, out of fear of their anger and hatred should she not tell them what they wanted to hear.
She shivered slightly, dropping her hands away from her face to rub at her shoulders, and the motion seemed to snap her out of her daze. She turned around, glancing at the empty room, her eyes lingering on a corner, where a shadowy figure stared at her. Rei’s eyes snapped away as quickly as they’d moved over, and she dropped her attention down towards her feet, where a mid-sized rucksack sat on the floor, fully packed, half leaning against her legs.
She’d turned 22 less than four weeks ago. By any measure, in any society, she was an adult, someone who could make decisions for herself. She certainly still shouldn’t be subject to the whims of her parents, and if she’d wanted to leave, theoretically there was nothing they could do to stop her. The police wouldn’t call her a runaway if she left, and her parents couldn’t force her to return.
And yet, if she was weak enough that she couldn’t even tell a lie to a complete stranger, how could she possibly look her mother and father in the eyes and tell them she was done with this life? Her mother would cry, that was for certain. She’d grown used to the comforts that came along with having a celebrity for a daughter, and the thought that this life might come to an end would certainly terrify her. Her father would take her mother into his arms and stroke the back of her head as her mother tried to sound like she wasn’t crying, but his accusing eyes would be directed at Rei. He’d be asking, silently judging, what kind of daughter would do this to her family. What kind of daughter would turn her back on a God-given gift, and abandon those in need.
That was why she had convinced herself that she should simply wait for a clear night, when the air was warm and the sky was clear, wait for her parents to fall asleep, and then simply take off into the night. Her parents might have needed a luxury motorhome to travel across the country, but she would be able to leave with nothing but the clothes on her back, a rucksack full of her most important belongings, and twenty thousand dollars in hundred-dollar bills hidden through her various belongings.
She’d prepared everything. Every night she had lain in bed, plotting where she would go, what she would do, telling herself that she wished it was a clear night. And now that she finally had the chance to do it…
She was a fucking coward.
In one quick motion, Rei reached into a side pocket of her pack, fishing out a cell phone and turning it on. The blue glow of the screen illuminated her face in a way the dim radiance of the moon never could, and for a moment she froze, straining her ears, fearing that the light might have somehow alerted her parents. But, no, that was silly. The light would never reach her parents, sleeping on the other side of the camper, and she could still her her fathers disgruntled snores. They weren’t awake. They had no clue.
Sighing slightly, Rei unlocked her phone, and quickly beat out a number by instinct. It had been over two years since she had last input that number, yet the motion still seemed as familiar as if she had done it yesterday. She swallowed slightly, before taking a deep breath and hitting the call button.
What was she going to do if the number was disabled? If some stranger picked up the phone instead, at 2 in the morning? She gulped, the ringing seeming to echo inside her head. And then, all of a sudden, the line clicked. Someone had answered.
“Allison,” Rei whispered, voice breathy from a combination of panic and quiet desperation. “Is that you?”
Reisha Bannon had been waiting for a clear night with a bright moon for nearly two months. Now that it had finally arrived, she suddenly realized that waiting for the night was no longer going to be an excuse for her. If she was planning to go, now was the chance. If she didn’t go… Well, then. She’d just have to give it up. Go back to the seemingly endless seances her parents organized, back to looking people in the eye and smiling as she lied to their faces, out of fear of their anger and hatred should she not tell them what they wanted to hear.
She shivered slightly, dropping her hands away from her face to rub at her shoulders, and the motion seemed to snap her out of her daze. She turned around, glancing at the empty room, her eyes lingering on a corner, where a shadowy figure stared at her. Rei’s eyes snapped away as quickly as they’d moved over, and she dropped her attention down towards her feet, where a mid-sized rucksack sat on the floor, fully packed, half leaning against her legs.
She’d turned 22 less than four weeks ago. By any measure, in any society, she was an adult, someone who could make decisions for herself. She certainly still shouldn’t be subject to the whims of her parents, and if she’d wanted to leave, theoretically there was nothing they could do to stop her. The police wouldn’t call her a runaway if she left, and her parents couldn’t force her to return.
And yet, if she was weak enough that she couldn’t even tell a lie to a complete stranger, how could she possibly look her mother and father in the eyes and tell them she was done with this life? Her mother would cry, that was for certain. She’d grown used to the comforts that came along with having a celebrity for a daughter, and the thought that this life might come to an end would certainly terrify her. Her father would take her mother into his arms and stroke the back of her head as her mother tried to sound like she wasn’t crying, but his accusing eyes would be directed at Rei. He’d be asking, silently judging, what kind of daughter would do this to her family. What kind of daughter would turn her back on a God-given gift, and abandon those in need.
That was why she had convinced herself that she should simply wait for a clear night, when the air was warm and the sky was clear, wait for her parents to fall asleep, and then simply take off into the night. Her parents might have needed a luxury motorhome to travel across the country, but she would be able to leave with nothing but the clothes on her back, a rucksack full of her most important belongings, and twenty thousand dollars in hundred-dollar bills hidden through her various belongings.
She’d prepared everything. Every night she had lain in bed, plotting where she would go, what she would do, telling herself that she wished it was a clear night. And now that she finally had the chance to do it…
She was a fucking coward.
In one quick motion, Rei reached into a side pocket of her pack, fishing out a cell phone and turning it on. The blue glow of the screen illuminated her face in a way the dim radiance of the moon never could, and for a moment she froze, straining her ears, fearing that the light might have somehow alerted her parents. But, no, that was silly. The light would never reach her parents, sleeping on the other side of the camper, and she could still her her fathers disgruntled snores. They weren’t awake. They had no clue.
Sighing slightly, Rei unlocked her phone, and quickly beat out a number by instinct. It had been over two years since she had last input that number, yet the motion still seemed as familiar as if she had done it yesterday. She swallowed slightly, before taking a deep breath and hitting the call button.
What was she going to do if the number was disabled? If some stranger picked up the phone instead, at 2 in the morning? She gulped, the ringing seeming to echo inside her head. And then, all of a sudden, the line clicked. Someone had answered.
“Allison,” Rei whispered, voice breathy from a combination of panic and quiet desperation. “Is that you?”