Heavy foot falls are heard as your feet pound against the forest floor, you were running as fast as you could. From what? You yourself don't even know that much. You regret ever coming out here with your friends. You wished you had stayed at home. Why didn't you try to convince them not to pick up those stupid notes.

You yelp as suddenly your feet fly out from under you having not noticed the sudden drop off, and your sent plummeting down a cliff to your death. Or so you thought....

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How intriguing.

I mused to myself silently as I held the terrified mortal with a single tendril. Holding them by their ankle as they hung upside down in my grasp. I pull them closer to my faceless slate of a face, tilting my pale white head ever so slightly.

This mortal is strange, they didn't touch the notes. How did they resist the magic?

I ponder in thought, as I observed this specimen of a human. Strange, I must do more research, the magic should have worked.

I brought them closer, still holding them upside down having them look me eye to blank face. 'Mortal, you are not affected by my essence, why? ' I message right into their mind as the noise of radio static makes them dizzy.

I stifle my hum of intrigue from watching them panic at the sound of my voice when I had no mouth to convey it to them. ‘Tell me your name mortal and I might let you go in one piece.’ I command. My query was not a request, but an order.