[Heliotrope] The Fuses

Everyone has heard of the Muses, minor greek Goddesses who eventually reproduced and has several offspring that dwell in Middle Fairie, but have you heard of the Fuses? No, of course not because the way you hear about Muses is through epic mythological of fictional works.  A muse has a symbiotic relationship that draws worship and inspiration from her inspired work.  A Fuse is a parasite that only exists to take ideas before they are even formed.

Have you ever heard of a library of unwritten books? Books that might have hypothetically been written if the writer hadn't died, gone mad or gone into a career of used telephone sanitation?  Well that's made up mostly of works taken by the Fuses.  Of course, there are many many works that don't happen simply because they are awful, or bad time travel wrecks a lot of possibilities, or someone really does get hit by a bus, but there have been millions of things that have never been created by fuses.

There are exceptions to this, of course.  To begin with, Fuses have a naturally antagonistic with muses.  But fuses are particularly vigilant about works written about them and snuff the idea without snuffing the person.  Sometimes they even work on the same author, inspiring or removing the idea before it even occurs.  But sometimes they go too far.  Terra is a world without stories and it is not merely because the people there live more active lives which allows them to BE in stories or be stories rather than tell them.  Terra's proximity to fae often allows access to rarer creatures of Fairy to access layers of reality inherenetly hostile to them.

But there are rare instances where a story can engender reality.  And if one were, for example, upset at a group of Fuses for interfering with a podcast who did so with a paid bounty for one EP Blingermeyer, then one could theoretically use their psychic link to a writer in a higher reality that you were astrally possessing to allow them to write.  Convulted? Here's what's not.

Astral space is harder to track than real space, so by the time they figure out that this is going on, it can give you just enough time to write "A large anvil appears over ever Fuse in Terra and smatters them in the head, cartoon style until they go limply away back to Middle Fairy"....oh.

Strangely the pounding on the door just stopped.

Go figure.