Creative Writing: Bright Spirit, Dark Soul

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Bright Spirit, Dark Soul

Day one: Asylum

I was there forever. Well, as long as I could remember. Barely clothed, with nothing to but look at my cell, the hall outside and the sword handle I found laying outside the bars. The only thing on my mind: who am I? The last thing I remember is a name; Zephira; and I'm certain that it's my own.
I could speak, write, and use this language like I knew it from birth.

My dreary days of imprisonment ended abruptly one day.

I was examining my hands, weathered and sickly from years of malnutrition and two suicides. I thought, "I wonder how dreadful my face is...hmmmm...... probably terrible, all things considered." I was startled when the hatch above me yielded a corpse, then a gleaming helm. The eyes inside were full of an odd mixture of hate and …show more content…

Life is going fine, then he gets a Darksign. Wife finds out, treats him like she would a Hollow.

"If she actually cared about you, she would've just been glad to know that she'd get you back if you had an accident, that you won't ever fall ill or that you could always be there."
He looked at me, with an odd, sad smile.
Then a voice called from the room that had just been given a new door.
"Who speaks? Art thou Hollow?"
We entered the hole to see a knight laying on some rubble, a fine sword on one side of him, and an elegant shield on the other.
"Thank the gods, you aren't Hollow. I'm afraid I haven't much time, will ye hear me out?"
"Yes."
"Sure."
"Alright. There is a saying in my family. 'If thou art Undead thou art chosen. The Chosen must seek the Bell of Awakening, and upon its ringing, the fate of the Undead, thou shalt know.' Go now, for I will soon die, and I would hate to harm you after death. Oh but you'll need this..." He pulled an emerald flask from his pouch and handed it to me.
"An Estus Flask, an Undead favourite. Here, take this as well..." He retrieved a key and handed it to Brawl. "Go..." He went limp, and faded

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