Author's note. My home-wifi is shut off for now, partly because I need to cut down on costs, and partly because I am adamantly against my former ISP's policy regarding net neutrality, and will be searching for a competitor ISP when I can afford it again. In the meantime, I must rely on alternatives to home internet. Also, in my personal copy of Skyrim, I keep finding myself running into a game-ruining glitch involving Karliah during the "Trinity Restored" quest, so the game must be shelved until I can finally update. I will simply do my best to continue the "Scarlet Scale" story without its assistance. As for this story, it's Minecraft, but a bit more smuttier... er, "interesting." Have you ever wondered why there never seems to be any differences of gender in that game? Now I'm attempting to try a... "theory," hermaphroditism.
I do not claim any copyright of Minecraft, or any part of it, all of which is owned by Mojang, now a subsidiary of Microsoft. This has been written purely for fun, not profit. Please enjoy.
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I woke from my bed, and walked out to my horse's stable. I suppose you might be curious about who I am. I prefer to ask what I am, but still don't have any answers. I know my sister and I look different from the other villagers, so I know we're different somehow. I just don't know how much, beyond mere appearance. The other villagers have large, carrot-like noses, and big thick, bushy, eyebrows, but I don't. So far as I've known up to now, my sister and I have been the only ones who'd ever looked the way we do, but none of the villagers have had any ideas of where we might have come from, or who brought us. We were simply found, swaddled in blankets sheltered in one of their empty houses, an unfamiliar note saying to look inside.
There was a letter, some water had smeared the ink, but it was still recognizable. It said when our birthday was, and that answers would be found by following the East Road on our 24th birthday. That road led to two places. An old, but rich port city at the ocean, which served as something of a trader's market between mainland Palneh and the archipelagos of the Riven Uldbevnah. The islands and peninsulas across the The only other place was a huge and mysterious mountain ruin. A ruin that seemed to "swallow" any explorer that tried to test its darkness. In all the legends of Palneh and the isles, none knew exactly what or who built the ruin. Because of the vanishing explorers, some had started believing it haunted by demons or other monsters.
At the village stable, I saw my twin sister next to her tawny horse. We were a pair of black-haired women of fierce hearts, not afraid of the darkness of night, nor the deepest caves. She and I were dressed in our iron armor, she carried a sword with shield, I had my bow of infinity. The villagers of Ygala were sorry to see us leaving, but they agreed that we should be allowed to seek our own fates, and they had their Iron Golems, so they would not be defenseless. T'xen smiled and heaved a sigh, making her torso's breastplate move the large mounds ever so slightly. Another reason I was glad we were going, we'd finally have a chance to explore the peculiarities of our bodies, different as they were from the other villagers. They weren't bad people, and like every other creature in the world, they were all one gender. The villagers were happy to enjoy sexuality, as we were, and a few had even expressed interest in me or T'xen, but neither of us wanted to remain in the same place nearly all our lives.