Fall Like Dust

A DnD Tale

Ristel knows the rules: never bring what you can't carry in a hurry, always cover your tracks, don't get caught with what you can't afford, and never, ever get attached. That all changes when he meets Pepper. And now he's kicking himself.

It's not that she's particularly special, even. It's that after such a long life of abuse at the Matrons' hands and of being on the road, the quiet gentleness of her touch is... bliss. And when she looks at him with those eyes... he can't leave her behind when she begs to come along.

What else can he do? Leave the girl to be the slave of another's will? Like how he once was? Leave her to the beasts who'll pound that kindness --that softness-- into dust? Not likely.

It's gonna be dangerous for them, a former service-slave and a Drow criminal on the run, but, oh well. Here we go.

Genre: Dnd, D&D, Action/Adventure, Mystery, Fantasy, Crime, Romance, Adult, Ero

Fall Like Dust: Project

~Fall Like Dust~

Do you fall like rain on the crying?
Cold and alone like the bitter and dying

Do you fall like dust on a ruin?
Empty and dead like the life you are loosing

-"The Fall", Gary Numan

Fall Like Dust: Text

Ristel is a Drow used to the harsh overworld of Faerun. He's led a life of burning aliases and contacts at a moment's notice and moving from town to town, never staying in the same place longer than a fortnight.

Pepper is a young Human who's unfamiliar with the world and how it works. As a prostitute enslaved to a brothel, the only value she knows she has is in how to appease a man.

They should've never met. It'd be simpler for them both if they hadn't.

The pair meet on a rainy night in a rundown crossroads village that's seen livelier days. After a sweet night of sharing themselves inside and out, they remain on each other's minds the next day, as though tethered; something about the other brings fascination and a sense of peace.

They've both been surviving. Neither one has been living. That changes after they meet --after they wind up on the run and chased across the countryside by an unknown haunter.

Ristel can't think of anyone he's crossed lately and the enemy obviously isn't a Drow come to take him back... and these pursuers are far too persistent to be attempting to claim the bounty on Pepper... so, who are they? And what do they want?