An Uncanny Resemblance

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 11102

As Stacy translated the patchy, nearly illegible medieval French, she noticed several illuminations interspersed throughout the text. They were good quality. She didn't know how, but she could tell they were made using powdered minerals and other expensive ingredients. The blues were cobalt, and some of it was actually gilt.

The thing that caught her eye about them, though, was the fact that several of them depicted a woman who looked alarmingly like her.

Upon noticing this, she hastily began to translate the passages of the text which seemed to correspond to the illuminations. Again, it was nearly illegible, so she couldn't glean much, but from what she could tell, they referred to a woman called "Anastasia". They told of various deeds of heroism that had apparently earned her quite a reputation, unheard of in that time.

Stacy decided to examine one of the scenes in detail...

  1. Stacy looked at one that showed her in a swordfight with a stunted, deformed looking humanoid creature
  2. Stacy looked at one that showed her in flowing robes embroidered in alchemical symbols, a strange energy flowing from her eyes and hands
  3. Stacy looked at one that showed her picking the lock of a ponderously large wood and iron door
  4. Stacy looked at one that showed her clutching a holy symbol and praying at an altar
  5. Stacy looked at one that showed her backlit against the full moon, a feral look in her eyes and fangs protruding from her mouth. The hash marks seemed to imply that she was becoming extremely hairy, changing into something...

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