Preview of Wrapped Off The Map
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Summary: Exploring off the borders of a world at peace, the dragoness Sisu lets the currents direct her. When she wakes up in a surreal grove, inhabited by unbelievable spiders she mistakenly assumes she must be dreaming.Word Count (Full Version): 2206
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Sisu's hand creaked, shaking from tension as she tried to pull it free only for the web-pool to snap back, dragging her with it, the momentum carrying her forward until more of the hanging strands hit her neck and chest, even her other shoulder. "Uh oh..."
She took a breath, it was all a dream after all, she'd summoned those webs into her path by thinking about them, she just needed to will them to break, or to stretch infinitely without pulling her in. "Come on, come on." She said, digging in with her other three other legs as she tried to pull back. A single strand of the web that had been caught on only a few hairs twanged as it pulled free, shaking around. "Yeah, like that. Okay.... Break!" She said to the still stretching mass on her front foot, even as she had to dig her claws in to not be pulled. She brought the limb up and down, shaking it sharply as she said. "Break!" One more time. It refused reaching the limits of her strength as the strands on her body had, too. When her hand gave an inch, she couldn't stop the rest of the webs effectively reeling her in. "Wah, wait wait!" She said, claws skittering on the floor in a half run as elasticated stickiness contracted, pulling her body with it, "W-wwaaah!" She gasped as she saw a thicker strand than the rest beyond those she'd hit, unable to keep herself from being propelled into it, shoulder stretching it out from the impact. Almost like a sheet being stretched over the joint, it clung tight, strong enough to keep her front leg from dropping to the floor.
"Okay, so why didn't it break... is it a faith thing? Do I have to will myself to believe it'll snap?!" She started to monologue, tongue getting faster as she argued with herself. "No no, of course I already believed it. Look, Sisu, just shush, calm down, and uhhh... dream of something else. Rivers! No.. uh. Nice open skies and clouds, a meadow without branches or spiders." She scrunched her face up, shutting her eyes, willing the dreamscape to change when she opened them. It hadn't... Instead she was met with the eight round eyes of one of the glossy black spiders.
Indeed all around her a few of the arachnids had taken notice, thanks to the twanging webs she'd been plucking at.
"Oh... I'm starting to get a bad feeling..." She murmured.
The spider let itself down on her snout, wandering across the bridge of her nose. Her eyes crossed looking at it as she cracked a smile. "Hey there li'l dream spider, you wouldn't be a talking dream spider, would you?"