The Blighted Baguette Stalker

Cast aside in the drafty cull-gutters before the warmth of the Sacred Proving could bless its gluten strands, this discarded stalker was born of neglected, over-fermented rye left to sour in damp darkness. Denied the honorable browning of the Great Hearth, its elongated form became an emaciated nightmare—a segmented, leathery whip of rotting dough crawling with parasitic malice. Where a proud baker’s score should have smiled, the Spore-Blight nested deep within its bulbous head-boule, replacing…

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