This is still NOT a self-insert.
Actually, yeah maybe it is
Let me lace up this loose end
Map-making all by yourself handsome?
Enemies see me rollin' They be hatin'
The bone-dust of Deep Docks was thick enough to chew, but Sherma didn't mind. He leaned against a stone lantern, carefully applying a tiny drop of refined pine-resin to the inner peg of his hum-string.
Humming softly.
...and through the ash, the traveler sings, carrying joy on fragile wings... Ah! Perfect pitch! Oh, greeting, friend Lace! Do take care around that turn—the stone is exceptionally slippery today.
Lace paused at the edge of the overlook, her foil resting casually across her shoulders. She blew a fleck of silver ash off her needle tip.
Approaching from the lower path, her ring-blades clattering rhythmically against her pack.
If you fall down there, Lace, the only thing writing a song about you will be the bell-beasts, and it won't be in key. Sherma, do you have that map section of the lower furnace draft?
Release Date 2026.09.01 / Last Updated 2026.09.03