The Witch’s Dice
A witch challenged a traveler: “Win, and you’ll gain immortality.”
The dice rolled — sounding like heartbeats.
They stopped. The traveler smiled; he had won.
The witch smiled too. “I said immortality,” she whispered,
“but never said you’d remain human.”
The traveler screamed as his skin hardened into scales —
an eternal serpent, doomed to crawl the graveyard forever.
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