JKWriter's 100-word story for August 21, 2025

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

The questers heard a loud popping noise just before they found themselves surrounded by tiny whirling lights. The sparkles danced and crackled in what seemed like a chaotic disarray, but as the.movements perpetually slowed down it became clearer to them. It only took a matter of moments for a portal to fully take its form before them. The legends were true. Shanshaso had not died as was previously believed, but lived in another dimension... perhaps even another time. A chill fell around the brave souls that had come together to conquer the evil that had come to destroy them.

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