The Tale of the Beloved Servant

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Listen carefully, for I have a tale to tell you. It is a true tale, of true things. This may not be precisely how they came to pass, but storytelling is about recounting events truthfully, not precisely.

( Once, there was a beloved servant... )

December Challenge - [Geist] What the Dickens?

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The sinister, robed figure flailed wildly, sending out waves of paralysing panic, but its attacker held fast, Primeval claws tearing at the materialised corpus and dragging it to the floor. The spirit subdued, he bent his head and tore at the fading ectoplasm, gulping down great mouthfuls of the foetid pseudomatter before the ghost at last vanished, as the three others had done before it.

His work done, Senjan sprang to the window and out into the night.

After a long silence, the owner of the house peeked out through the drapes of his bed and gave a shrill cry. Senjan grinned at him from the window.

"Keep Christmas in heart," the Sin Eater said sternly. "All year." And then he was gone.