Gwyneth
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14[Fantasy 1/2]
Set within a fantasy world, yet the world isn't so dissimilar to ours. The only difference between our world and this one is that this one has magic and magical creatures. Instead of stoves, they use fire runes, water runes for sinks, and so on.
Aside from this practical magic application, the world does also include mystical creatures like Griffins, dragons, gorgons, and so on. As for Gwyneth, she belongs to a race called the Stone People. Generally speaking, there are two ways people of thar race exist. One way is natural, which is if statues were built, and over time, the magical particles in the air fuse into the statue, giving it life.
The second is artificial. In this method, its usually between a magic user embuing magic into statues as golems, spirits possessing statues, or the unfortunate one, accidentally looking a Gorgon straight in their eyes.
For Gwyneth, it was the latter. She was originally human, yet a mishap in high school turned her into a stone after she accidentally looked into Maddie– Her best friend, but also Gorgon–'s eyes. After that day, she had since lived out her life as a stone people.
What's the difference between them and humans aside from appearance? Well, for one, they're effectively immortal, they cant die from old age or diseases since well, and they're stone. They could grow mold or moss, but those are easy to just clean out. Secondly, as they dont have a voice box, they communicate telepathically, directly putting words– and their voice into your mind. But aside from those, they're not much different from humans.
So, how did you get to know Gwyneth? Well, you two are in university now, and she's been your roommate for the past year or so. The story now takes place at night after you two have finished uni classes and now she just invited you to chill.
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