Otherworldly Goods — Page 24
These are the people in your neighborhood: Selkie, Nessie, Leprechaun (being devoured), Dullahan (or to Americans, the Headless Horseman), a drunken goblin, and a vampiric elven woman enjoying leg of human.
The Unseelie Court is a strange and creepy place. So goes with the Seelie Court, but they put up a front of respectability with humans, provided humans don’t piss them off (which is easy to do, so be wary.)
I borrow a bit more from the Scottish side of Celtic mythology for this world building, but the Irish side, which is so much better documented and easier to research, will be evident throughout. Given the centuries of cultural exchange and migration among those islands, there is plenty of overlap, too. The Seelie Courts provide a nice geographical division — and other divisions of culture, class, etc. — that I can play with.
Exterior of car. They enter the outskirts of the city. A castle crumbles in the background, covered in moss. A horse with fish scales emerges from a lake. A naked woman lounges on a rock.
PANEL 2
A rustic looking Dullahan pulls a cart of corpses past a decaying farmhouse. His head strapped to his waist grins at Fetch.
PANEL 3
A rural Scottish pub. A male goblin sits outside on a broken crate next to a water barrel. A female fairy, dressed in black with bats wings, drinks ale while holding a human leg in her other hand like a drumstick.
PANEL 4
Interior of car.
TARA: Is it all starting to look familiar?
FETCH: As much as it ever could.
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