magisternihil's 100-word story for November 21, 2025

magisternihil wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on November 21, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

It had battled thousands, fighting its way through the slough pits, the torment forests, the Menagerie, and by sheer effort of will, it had won. It stood atop the mountain triumphant and claimed its prize. “One day, no more, no less,” said the voices of the defeated, and the red sky tore open, revealing a spiral staircase made of bones and teeth. It ascended and chose a form to blend in as it ventured on its task. Bones, flesh, muscle, tissue, all coalesced into a human shape, and it spoke its first words in millennia. “Okay, which way is IKEA?”

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