<a class="username" data-user-id="1445" data-username="LadyDovahkiin" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" href="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/members/1445/">LadyDovahkiin</a><br/><br/>"The Ogress's Tale" (part 1)<br/><br/>It was good when the very powerful owed the not-quite-so-powerful a favor.  In this case, the Fae Queen of Winter acknowledged a debt to a barely mature wyldfae Ogress, named "Morusa".  Getting the Fae Queen to owe the ogress a favor had not been planned, much.  It was simply that the Queen was looking for a fugitive that had betrayed her, that Morusa had learned about the fugitive and had stumbled upon the traitor's hiding place as he slept.  The prey was taken with no time to figure out what was happening to him, gagged, hooded, fingers wrapped together in strings, hands bound together and feet bound together as well.<br/><br/>When the fugitive was presented to her, the Queen of Winter, in an uncharacteristically unguarded moment, perhaps thinking that a simple ogress would not ask for anything beyond an ordinary ogre's desires, asked Morusa to name what she wanted and was shocked when Morusa said, "I want to be smart, like smart enough to cast glamours and spells."<br/><br/>"Being so wise as to cast glamours and spells exceeds the very nature of being an ogre," the Winter Queen replied.  "Yet, I did invite you to name your reward.  What you have asked for is beyond any power I know of in all our realm, but a gateway to a dimension that is the source of magic is opening soon.  There you might petition those that dwell in that realm to grant your wish.  Will you accept passage to this place as fulfillment of my payment?"<br/><br/>Morusa accepted.<br/><br/>Some months passed.<br/><br/>The hour was approaching and the portal to the dimension of magic now appeared like a mirror before Morusa.  She saw her reflection.  Six cubits tall, thick splotchy skin and thick muscles, not readily identifiable as female, an angry looking face (even when relaxed), black ropey hair, poorly dressed.  If she could become smarter and have magic then so many things might get better.<br/><br/>The portal in front of the ogress changed and allowed her to see what was on the other side.  Morusa nodded to those that were guarding this gate and then walked through.