Session 16 (4/13/22)

by Blythe Hahn

Xai 30th, 3e658

Marlie’s hut

the dullahan circles the hut

Indy wants to open the door and potentially trap it inside, but is outvoted

Blythe yells through the door that the Death Mother is her godmother and she’ll be very cross with him (the dullahan), and she hears it move away

eventually Marlie and Elli check outside, where the dullahan has carved fey circles of protection on the house and left fresh donuts on the step

he has also written “prtek” and “dunnut” on the front door

as we huddle inside the house, the wind begins to pick up, growing to hurricane levels, accompanied by thunder and earthquakes

Marlie’s hut is torn apart piece by piece by the wind

the storm ends with utter darkness and chaotic noise dissolving into a bright, blinding light and complete silence

Blythe sees the bann sidhe in the distance scattering across the sky

we step through a magical barrier of protection created by the dullahan around the hut

we see a bann sidhe collecting a soul from the ground nearby

we go back towards the Pickle house; the city is in ruins, with buildings turned to rubble

bann sidhe collect souls in “nets”

the Pickle house is the only house still standing in Old Hightown

Cuulgui has been protecting Kelsa, Katty, and BB; but as he sees it’s over, he disappears

we return to the market square, met with the sight of towering crystal ice structures; people entombed in ice pillars

those further from the center of the square look as if they were trying to flee, looking at something in the sky

at the center of it all is the altar of the Mother, where she sits accessing an intricate web of souls

she tells Blythe that this great event was fated to occur, these people fated to die, but those in the ice are not necessarily dead

she uses the web like a loom, sorting through the souls of the living and the dead (black and white threads)

she warns me that touching the web would be death

Marlie’s mother is frozen in front of her cart, holding out an iron box and letter for Marlie

(Post Session)

Blythe finds her mother, father, and brother Andrew in the ice, though Sarah is missing