Masque, Come Here: A Narrative Fiction

It was a unnaturally sunny day, not including the cloudy gray halo that surrounded a large patch of land, almost as if the sun was afraid to shine. And in the middle of that large patch of land was a very large house, victorian style, and as many old houses are, paint chipping, walls crumbling, and a snaggled barbwire fence surrounding the extensive amount of land. In the middle of all this, a girl, just one girl was lazily playing cards with herself, seemingly oblivious to the various stray cats, snarling dogs, soft drizzle of rain, and crumbling mansion. All of this chaos, around one house, as if it was a magnet for trouble. “Masque, Come here” The girl called, honey blonde hair plastered to the sides of her face due to the drizzle, deep
Faye yelped, in quick reaction she sprinted after Masque hoping to find him, quickly, and at this Piper flinched nervously, but went after her best friend and their sidekick. As the trio entered the forest, they all simultaneously grimaced,. This forest didn’t hold many diurnal animals, and the ones it did, certainly weren’t very friendly. They turned around to the assumed entrance and continued walking, after what seemed hours, they noticed they weren’t even close to where they started and it was getting dark, “ Most things are afraid of the dark, but here the dark is afraid of most things, things that come with the night” Faye
But his movements were slow and methodical, as if he practiced them many times before, rehearsing this moment till she got it exactly right, his expression portrayed the hint of anxiety almost as if someone would catch him doing something wrong. “You’re lying” Piper said simply. Faye added“You’re a shapeshifter, a clever one at that, but I can understand your hesitation to share it, We must pretend to be something else, in order to survive, or in order to not get caught” She stated diplomatically, though at the last line, she smirked slightly. Nyx watched her for a moment, before dropping down from the tree, landing silently before shifting into a very different form. Piper gasped, at this revealing, like a lucky person at a game show, who had enough luck and knowledge to win, except they figured out their prize was a bathtub full of