Backwoods Curse- Sestina Practice

Up in the forbidden part of the mountains

Lies a place fully enveloped in shadow

Which can only be found with a mind’s key

That needs to be kept away from the monster

Who lies in wait within the old stone ruins

And creeps through the noxious fog

The tempting part of the woods is guarded by fog

It blocks the adventurer’s view in the mountains

If they are so unlucky as to find the ruins

Then they must know that they are followed by shadow

Their greedy footsteps awaken the monster

Who now comes forth to take their key

What is most precious to both is the key

The adventurer was warned about the monster

But their mind has been tricked in the fog

They have been deceived by the mountains

What follows them is not their own shadow

As they come upon the base of the ruins

Oh poor adventurer who stumbles into the ruins

They barely hold onto their life-giving key

They’ve been tracked down by the shadow

They’re losing themselves in the hungry fog

Their soul is being claimed by the mountains

Now through the thicket approaches the monster

A growling snort of laughter comes from the monster

As it saunters into its domain in the ruins

Tracking them into its territory of the mountains

It has come to reclaim its rightful key

The barrow of spirits revives in the fog

Whose red dead eyes peer through the shadow

One by one the spirits come from the shadow

Approaching as they serve the monster

No one can hide now in the dissipating fog

As the undead attack the adventurer in the ruins

They’ve come to claim their master’s key

And trap another soul in the heart of the mountains

Poor soul in the mountains who ignored the shadow

They’ve lost their key to the lurking king monster

Their body lies in the ruins and their spirit ebbs with the fog.