Vrconk - Alex Coal - Baldur-s Gate Iii- Shadowh... -
The game, she thought, is still playing me.
Alex woke gasping on her floor, the headset cracked beside her. She was herself again. Small. Human. Barely five credits to her name.
She was kneeling in the damp moss of the Forest of Wyrms. The air smelled of rain, rust, and distant sulfur. Her hand ached—the pulsed warmly against her hip. In front of her, a dying goblin gurgled its last.
She smiled. Cold. Guarded. A little bit broken.
Alex scrolled past Karlach, past Lae'zel, and landed on the half-elf cleric of Shar. The pale hair, the silver armor, the guarded eyes that held a universe of repressed pain.
She threw the spear into the abyss.