Monster's Curse

Tame slowly put the mare onto the ground. He didn’t have the strength to finish her now, but he couldn’t risk the poison killing him instead. He would find a way out no matter what though. “I’m sorry.”

The mare weakly pushed herself off the ground. “Please, please don’t go. I… I need you. Please.”

Tame closed his eyes and shook his head. “I can’t do anything for you. The most I could give you is a swift death.”

Tears started falling from her face. “Couldn’t you at least stay until then? Let me not die alone or by another’s hand? Please?”

He simply shook his head and turned away. The heat was too strong, and if he had been teleported or was trapped inside an illusion, he would need to find his way out and fast. He took one more step away from the mare before-

Crunch.

Tame froze as blood fell from his shoulder. He came around with a vicious right hook and knocked the creature away. Unfortunately, he knew his fate when he saw the creature. It had no soul, no eyes, but was simply a shell for its master, and now its master’s magic filled him. The creatures now bloody maw opened, but the words that came out were that of the voice before. “You could have been more, but instead you still prove yourself worthless.” Tame fell over as the life faded from him, but soon rose once more. No thoughts entered his mind on this miracle. No cry of pain from the gash in his shoulder or the broken bones. No, nothing would ever come into this corpse’s mind ever again.