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Day 2 of Percildan week, for @kakushimiko, as I adopted one of their "Vox Machina ideas I'll never write" babies!
Mutual Pining | Touch Starved | Love Confessions The creatures had come from a rift between Syngorn and Byroden. They were horrible parasites, voraciously attaching themselves to any host they could find, and draining them of their life force until the host eventually died, before seeking a new host to take their place. And thus far, once attached to a host, no one had been able to find a way to remove them, without killing the host, too. Vox Machina was called out to close the rift and to take some of these creatures alive, to be studied, so that hopefully, someone could figure out how to save the victim-hosts before it was too late. Closing the rift was easy enough. Capturing these creatures with the swarm all around them? That was a bit more challenging… and eventually, their luck ran out. When one of the creatures managed to get the drop on Vax’ildan, Percy saved him just in time. But at the cost of leaving himself open. And he paid the price. As fast as Vax was, he wasn’t fast enough to stop the horrible parasite from attaching itself to the gunslinger. All he could do was watch, as Percy dropped… the creature attached to the back of his skull. And now, the sand in the hourglass was on the move, draining out as this creature was draining Percy’s life…
