Characters: Lilith and Quetzalcoatl, open to rescuers Date/Time: Midsummer 2013 Location: Somewhere in Faerie Rating: TBD Warnings: TBD. Depends on their willpower. Summary: Quetzal goes off with Lilith to help protect her... but who's going to protect him from her?
After Alan and Ebony had decided to split up to cover more ground, Leo had volunteered to accompany her. He didn't like the idea of an expectant mother wandering off by herself in a place like this.
They'd hardly walked more than a few hundred feet when the air was filled with the mouthwatering scent of fresh-baked sopapillas. It took a deep pull of willpower for him to turn it down. Not to mention the dishes of brightly-colored hard candies that seemed to line the path.
Then the fog set in. Subtle and insidious, like a late-autumn mist it floated in, making things fuzzy, obscuring what lay ahead and what lay behind and where they were and... why they were there and... Had it always been like this?
"Ebony?" he asked uncertainly, though the rest of the question seemed to evaporate from his mind.