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[thequestgiver]

Characters: The Witch of the Candy House
Open? Yep
Where: Two Faced Forest
When: RH4 [or really, any other day if you wanna backdate]
What: In the Forest is a candy house, and a cranky old witch who wants these dang heroes to get the hell off her lawn!





Deep in the Two Faced Forest, next to a lake of impossible clarity sits a small candy house. Walls made of gingerbread, decorated with hard candy that magically stays unmelted in the sun, it's picturesque and inviting. Care to knock on the door? Or just have a nibble of the gingerbread? Either way, take great care. The witch is not known for her good nature...

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[wanderwonder]

Oh nooooooo, not another candy house!

How many of these things were there?!

Well, now that Sundrop knew what they were used for, she wasn't going to let it be!

The unicorn approached the side of the house closest to her. It had no window. Good, she didn't want shards of glass falling on her. (Or maybe it would be sugar?)

Positioning herself was tricky, but doable. Satisfied with her placement, Sundrop bucked to create momentum, then delivered a solid double barrel kick to the gingerbread wall.

Hurrah!

[thequestgiver]

There was an indignant exclamation from with in. "What the hell do you think you're doing? Blasted unicorns, why are you ruining my house?!"

[wanderwonder]

Oh cripes, there was someone inside--

No matter! All the more reason to get on with taking the terrible house out! ... Gingerbread was sturdier than it looked, though. It took another kick before the wall crumbled in.

Sundrop twisted to face the inside of the house, lowering her head a fraction. It was a movement of defense and of warning.

"You lure children in with its sweet call," she said, ears trained on the direction the witch's voice had come from. "That is why I am ruining your house."

[thequestgiver]

A sturdy cane snapped out from the hole to smack at the unicorn as the crone emerged. "The devil are you even going on about you blasted nuisance! Get away before I turn you into a crow!"

she'd deserve it

[wanderwonder]

She yelped in surprise when the cane made contact, and hopped back a step or two. "Your house!" she started, stamping the forest floor in budding agitation. "There was another like it, and in it a goblin with a nasty taste for children. Are you not the same?"

... Was she not...the same?

...

[thequestgiver]

"Huh!" the witch snorted. "You think everyone who lives in the same sort of house is the same sort of person? Even for a fool unicorn, that's dim witted!" She grunted slightly as she laboriously stepped out from the hole, dusting herself off before turning and looking back at the wreckage. Muttering under her breath she began to wave her hands, the pieces of gingerbread picking themselves up and fitting themselves back into place.

[wanderwonder]

Sundrop retreated to allow the witch ample room between them. Her words made the unicorn feel foolish. She watched her work with conflicting thoughts.

Finally, she asked, "What other reason is there to have a house of sweets?"

[thequestgiver]

"Why would anyone want a house of wood? Or brick?" the witch returned. "It takes skill to keep a house like this up! Especially with all these stupid hero types who think they can do whatever they please with other people's homes."

[wanderwonder]

"Skill better suited to addressing the thorns," she blurted unabashedly.

Well, maybe a little abashedly.

But it was true! (Right?)

[thequestgiver]

"One could say for those blasted hooves of yours," the witch replied dryly as she smoothed down the cracks between the chunks.

[wanderwonder]

"Blunt force has no impact," she said with a frown (or the unicorn equivalent of one.) "So the soldiers have told me."

[thequestgiver]

"And yet you think my magic would, after seeing so little of it?"

[wanderwonder]

"Would it?" she pressed, forgetting her place.

[thequestgiver]

"You tell me, since you know so much."

[wanderwonder]

Sundrop stared at the witch, her stubbornness on the rise.

But.

She had a point.

"I am sorry," she finally relented, dropping her gaze. "I should not have assumed."

[thequestgiver]

"Damn fool unicorns always think they have all the answers. That horn on yer head ain't your brains, that's for sure!"

Satisfied with her repair work, the witch hobbled over to sit on a candy crusted bench.

[wanderwonder]

She stiffed, taking offense at the witch's words, but willed herself to let them go. She had done the first wrong here.

Her head swiveled to follow her. After a moment of hesitance, so too did her hooves.

"May we start over?"

[thequestgiver]

The witch snorted, almost amused. "Fine. Just keep your hooves and horn away from my walls."

[wanderwonder]

Fair enough.

"My name is Sundrop, one of the, ah..." Her head tilted to the side. "... summoned."

It was inaccurate to call herself a hero.

"Who are you?"

[thequestgiver]

"The Witch of the Two Faced Forest."

[wanderwonder]

"What is it that you do?"

[thequestgiver]

"Whatever the hell I feel like."

[wanderwonder]

kmdmfgdsfdsf okay, fair... enough...

"You care not about the thorns approaching Schwanheim?"

[thequestgiver]

"Why should I?" The witch shrugged.

[wanderwonder]

"Do they not pose a threat to this forest, too?" she asked, tilting her head to the side. "Should they overrun the capital and continue in their advance..."