This is for We-Write #8: Partner. The prompt is -Wizard- and my partnet is @iamraincrystal.
I have the first half this round.
The Maze
Have you ever smelt the place that you know you shouldn't be?
Within the maze, the wizard had his back to the fence as men armed with ray guns and heavy armor were flanking him. At his twelve o'clock, one-hundred yeards away coming out from the haze, the beast, its eyes a deep red surrounded by the darkness of a black hole, gaited steadily.
Have you ever tasted the walls littered with the with stuff you know you shouldn't eat?
The wizard's belly growled from the lack of food. He'd eaten twenty-eight days ago. Or, was it thirty-three? The flame he conjured in his hand took flight when a radio was heard nearby, going up and behind him. Hitting the ground, three dismembered men splattered against the walls. To save himself from gunfire from his left, the wizard moved around the wall where the blast and his possible meal was.
Have you ever been that hungry, Elexius, the Grand Wizard.
Rounding the corner, Elexius came face to face with the huge beast he saw a hundred yards away from earlier; its deep red eyes bright amidst the black hole that served as its sockets.
Surprised, he jumped back in shock, only for the beast to mimic his actions. He tilted his head and the beast tilted its head as well, almost as if it were his mirror image.
Dazed, mostly due to the hunger he was feeling, he slowly lifted his hand and only briefly registered the sharp talons protruding from his now black fingers.
Have you ever felt like you've forgotten who you truly are?
That voice, he knew that voice in his head. It called to him, using a name he'd barely grasped; a wisp of memory of something he should remember.
Cautiously, his raised hand inched closer to his mirror image. The surface rippled upon contact, slowly forming an image.
A kitchen, warm and inviting, with food laid out on the table as if preparing for a feast.
It was sucking him in, this portal. He didn't fight it, he couldn't control himself much longer, he was so close to the food he could pratically taste it!
On the other side, his hand started to look normal again. The hand of a man, a man who bore great power. That's when he heard a voice from the other side, "He has come back! O Elexius, the Grand Wizard! He has survived the Harrows of Hunger!"
He was starting to remember now, it was time to come home.
I've got to say that my half was presented to me sometime yesterday as I was riding my bike down the sidewalk. A man, bent over from the waist, was eating spaghetti from off the ground where people walk and streams of piss from the corner form puddles.
If something almost came up right now, you know exactly how I felt.
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