Halloween Short #3 - Sparrow

There really was no option for Sparrow’s story but to dive into the Victorian literature he adores, with a heavy dose of the Gothic for good measure: Dracula, alongside works by the Brontë sisters, served as my models for this one. Thanks again to both the excellent Wudgeous and Remnantation for editing assists, and to the latter again for the glorious art!

A word of caution before proceeding: this one involves blood.

June 12

When first I began chronicling my travels in this diary, little did I think to one day find myself writing here--the ‘here’ in question being not a snug inn some day or two out from my intended destination, with a full belly and a warm bed awaiting me--but instead a golden, desolate field, surrounded by the vast beauty of nature upon all sides, a day and a half distant from my last proper meal. The afternoon is waxing hot, however, and I am seeking respite beneath a convergence of oaks in the form of a natural chapel, the ‘altar’ of which--a mighty, pocked granite boulder--serves as my present seat. It was my intent to wait until I was safely established before writing an account of my troubles, but with little else to do until the heat wanes, I shall put my pen to paper here and now, after all.