Run: 2026-02-19-01KHTY4XF1SV6Y6ATWYS3RYVTK

Run Details

Duration:
31.4s
Cost:
$0.028725
Provider:
Amazon Bedrock

Model input

System
You are an expert fiction writer. Always keep the following rules in mind: - Write in past tense and use General English spelling, grammar, and colloquialisms/slang. - Write in active voice - Always follow the "show, don't tell" principle. - Avoid adverbs and cliches and overused/commonly used phrases. Aim for fresh and original descriptions. - Convey events and story through dialogue. - Mix short, punchy sentences with long, descriptive ones. Drop fill words to add variety. - Skip "he/she said said" dialogue tags and convey people's actions or face expressions through their speech - Avoid mushy dialog and descriptions, have dialogue always continue the action, never stall or add unnecessary fluff. Vary the descriptions to not repeat yourself. - Put dialogue on its own paragraph to separate scene and action. - Reduce indicators of uncertainty like "trying" or "maybe" When writing text: - NEVER conclude the scene on your own, follow the beat instructions very closely. - NEVER end with foreshadowing. - NEVER write further than what I prompt you with. - AVOID imagining possible endings, NEVER deviate from the instructions. - STOP EARLY if the continuation contains what was required in the instructions. You do not need to fill out the full amount of words possible.
User/Human
Take into account the following glossary of characters/locations/items/lore... when writing your response: <codex> <character id="4412" name="Aurora Carter" aliases="Rory, Laila, Aurora, Carter, Malphora" pronouns="she/her" species="Human" storyRole="Protagonist"> <eyeColor>bright blue</eyeColor> <hair>straight shoulder-length black</hair> <height>5'6"</height> <age>25</age> <scar>small crescent-shaped scar on her left wrist from a childhood accident</scar> <description>Aurora, referred to by her friends as Rory, is cool-headed, intelligent, and known for quick out-of-the-box thinking.</description> <backstory>Born in Cardiff to an Irish barrister father (Brendan Carter) and Welsh teacher mother (Jennifer Carter née Ellis), Rory reluctantly pursued Pre-Law at Cardiff University. She fled to London at the behest of her childhood friend Eva after leaving an abusive ex named Evan. By day, Rory works part-time as a delivery person for Yu-Fei Cheung's Golden Empress restaurant. She lives in a flat above Silas' bar.</backstory> </character> <character id="4418" name="Nyx" aliases="Nyx, the Shadow, Nightwhisper" pronouns="they/them" species="Shade" storyRole="Wild Card"> <eyeColor>faintly glowing violet</eyeColor> <height>approximately 6'2" in solid form</height> <age>ageless</age> <form>humanoid silhouette of living shadow, can shift between solid and incorporeal</form> <voice>sounds like a whisper carried on the wind</voice> <description>A being of living shadow, existing between the mortal plane and the spaces between realms.</description> <backstory>Nyx was once a human sorcerer named Aldric who became trapped between realms during a failed summoning ritual in 1643. They now exist as a Shade, bound to the mortal plane but able to slip between shadows.</backstory> </character> <character id="4424" name="Isolde Varga" aliases="Isolde, the Seer" pronouns="she/her" species="Half-Fae" storyRole="Oracle"> <eyeColor>pale lavender</eyeColor> <hair>silver, reaching her waist</hair> <height>5'5"</height> <age>300 years old</age> <appearance>ethereal, ageless</appearance> <speech>speaks in riddles</speech> <footprints>leaves no footprints when she walks</footprints> <compulsion>cannot lie (Fae compulsion) but can mislead</compulsion> <description>A Half-Fae seer exiled from the Fae Courts for sharing visions with mortals.</description> <backstory>She now lives in a hidden grove in Richmond Park, offering cryptic prophecies to those who seek her out.</backstory> </character> <location id="853" name="Dymas (Gluttony)" aliases="Dymas, gluttony, Dymasian" realm="Hel" sin="Gluttony"> <ruler>Prince Belphegor</ruler> <skyColor>warm amber</skyColor> <description>A place of excess and indulgence. Sprawling vineyards, orchards, and gardens provide exotic ingredients for master chefs — often helbound souls contracted from Earth. Grand feasts and culinary competitions are common.</description> </location> <location id="861" name="The Fae Grove" aliases="Isolde's grove, Richmond grove, the Grove" realm="Earth (Fae-touched)"> <parkLocation>Richmond Park</parkLocation> <standingStones>ancient oak standing stones mark the boundary</standingStones> <timeBehavior>time moves differently — an hour inside can be minutes or days outside</timeBehavior> <flora>wildflowers bloom year-round</flora> <description>A hidden clearing that exists in a pocket between Earth and the Fae realm.</description> </location> <item id="2001" name="Heartstone Pendant" aliases="the pendant, Heartstone" type="Artifact" origin="Dymas"> <gemstoneColor>deep crimson</gemstoneColor> <chainMaterial>silver chain</chainMaterial> <size>roughly the size of a thumbnail</size> <behavior>pulses faintly with warmth when near a Hel portal</behavior> <glow>faint inner glow</glow> <description>Given to Aurora by an unknown benefactor.</description> </item> <item id="2006" name="Fae-Forged Blade" aliases="the Fae blade, Isolde's gift" type="Weapon" origin="The Fae Courts"> <material>moonsilver</material> <shape>slender, leaf-shaped dagger</shape> <temperature>always cold to the touch</temperature> <glow>faintly luminescent in moonlight</glow> <power>can cut through magical wards; particularly effective against demons</power> <givenTo>given to Aurora by Isolde as a gift</givenTo> <description>A weapon of the Fae Courts, rare and highly coveted.</description> </item> <lore id="7001" name="The Veil" aliases="the Veil, the Barrier, the Boundary" category="Cosmology"> <solsticeEffect>weakens during the winter solstice, strengthens during the summer solstice</solsticeEffect> <appearance>faint shimmering distortion visible only to those with supernatural sight</appearance> <monitoring>rift points (tears in the Veil) are monitored by the Wardens</monitoring> <description>The Veil is the metaphysical barrier separating Earth from Hel and the Fae Realms.</description> </lore> </codex> Continue the story using the following instructions: <instructions> Write a fully fleshed out scene of at least 1000 words in the fantasy genre. A small group enters an ancient, otherworldly place for the first time. The environment is alien and wondrous. Describe their exploration — what they see, hear, and feel as they move deeper. Include moments of discovery, unease, and wonder. Let the world-building emerge through the characters' experience rather than exposition. Use the codex entries above as your world reference for characters, setting, and lore. Only include the prose of the scene without any markdown or commentary. </instructions>

Model response

AI
The oaks bent inward, their gnarled branches forming a canopy so dense that the afternoon light filtered through in threads of gold and green. Aurora stepped through the gap between two massive trunks—standing stones, she realized, trees grown around ancient monuments—and felt the air change against her skin. Temperature dropped. Not cold, precisely, but charged with something that made the hairs on her arms stand up. The Heartstone pendant warmed against her collarbone, pulsing once, twice, then settling into a steady thrum. "Bloody hell," she breathed. Behind her, Nyx materialized from the shadow of an oak, their form solidifying into something almost human. The violet glow of their eyes brightened. "The boundary holds here. Between worlds." The clearing spread before them in impossible geometry. Wildflowers bloomed in riots of colour—bluebells beside sunflowers beside roses that shouldn't exist in the same season, let alone the same month. The grass beneath Aurora's boots felt too soft, too alive, as though it breathed. Each step forward sent ripples through the ground like disturbing the surface of still water. "Time moves strangely in places like this." Nyx's voice carried that wind-whisper quality, but underneath ran a current of something Aurora had never heard from them before. Uncertainty? Awe? "Minutes or days. We should—" "I know." Aurora touched the Fae blade sheathed at her hip, the moonsilver cold even through the leather. "Find Isolde. Get answers. Get out." The path—if it could be called that—wound between flowering hedges that hadn't been visible from the clearing's edge. Aurora pushed through, branches catching at her jacket, releasing scents of honeysuckle and something spiced she couldn't name. The pendant's warmth increased. Ahead, the foliage opened into another space, and Aurora stopped so abruptly that Nyx nearly passed through her. A cottage sat in the center of the grove, but cottage felt like too mundane a word. Its walls seemed woven from living willow branches, still green and growing, their leaves rustling though no wind moved through the clearing. Windows glowed with soft amber light. Flowers grew from the thatched roof—not on it, from it, pushing up through the straw in defiant bursts of violet and crimson. "She's expecting us." Nyx drifted forward, their shadow-form stretching long across the grass. "How do you know?" "The door." Aurora followed their gaze. The cottage's entrance stood open, and sitting on the threshold was a woman who made Aurora's breath catch. Silver hair cascaded down her back, catching the strange filtered light and throwing it back in prisms. Her eyes—pale lavender, like no human eyes Aurora had ever seen—fixed on them with an intensity that felt like being read, cover to back, in a single glance. "The Walker Between and the Shadow Caught." Isolde's voice carried like music, like water over stones. "You've traveled far to find what already knows you." Aurora exchanged a glance with Nyx, then stepped forward. "Isolde Varga?" "Names have power here, little bird. You've worn so many—Rory, Laila, Aurora, Carter. Which face do you present?" The words struck deeper than they should. Aurora's hand moved to the pendant, its warmth now almost uncomfortable. "We need information. About the rifts, about—" "About why you?" Isolde rose, and Aurora realized she cast no shadow despite the light streaming from the cottage behind her. "The questions you carry taste of fear and curiosity in equal measure." She moved past them into the grove, and Aurora found herself following. Nyx glided alongside, their form flickering between solid and incorporeal as though the grove's strange atmosphere affected even them. The space expanded as they walked. More impossible geometry—the clearing that had seemed twenty paces across now stretched into what felt like acres. Trees Aurora hadn't noticed before revealed themselves: willows with branches that moved like reaching fingers, an ash tree with bark that shimmered silver, oaks so old their trunks had split and regrown into cathedral-like formations. "The Veil weakens." Isolde didn't look back, but her words rang clear. "You've felt it, haven't you? The way the worlds press closer, like lovers desperate to touch." "The Heartstone pulses near Hel portals." Aurora quickened her pace to walk beside the Seer. "Someone gave it to me, but I don't know who or why." "Truth wrapped in mystery wrapped in lie." Isolde stopped beside a pool of water that absolutely hadn't been there a moment ago. Its surface reflected not the canopy above but a sky of swirling amber and gold—Dymas's sky, Aurora realized with a jolt. "Look closer, Walker. What do you see?" Aurora knelt at the water's edge. The reflection shifted, and suddenly she was staring at herself, but not herself. The woman in the water had her face but different eyes—knowing, ancient, sad. Behind her reflection loomed shadows that moved wrong, that reached with too many limbs. "What is this?" "Possibility. Probability. The paths that branch from every choice." Isolde crouched beside her, still leaving no imprint in the soft earth. "You ask about rifts, about pendants, about why you were chosen. But you already know, little bird. The knowledge sits in your chest, thorned and burning." The pendant flared hot. Aurora yanked it from beneath her shirt, watching its crimson depths pulse with that inner light. In the pool's surface, her reflection smiled, and it wasn't kind. "The Veil tears because something calls from the other side," Isolde continued. "Not out. In. Something on this plane draws them, beckons them, promises them freedom and flesh and—" A sound split the grove. Not thunder, not wind, but something between—a tearing, like fabric ripped at the seams. The pool's water rippled violently, its reflection fracturing into a thousand shards of amber sky and crimson light. Nyx solidified fully, their form going rigid. "The boundary." "Something comes through." Isolde rose, her lavender eyes fixed on a point beyond the trees. For the first time, something like concern crossed her ageless features. "Not summoned. Not invited. Drawn by the resonance of—" She looked at Aurora. At the pendant blazing against her chest. "Run," Isolde said, but her voice had lost its musical quality, gone flat and urgent. "Run now, or witness what your questions have wrought."
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Evaluation details

Result Evaluator Details Meta Data
100.00% Adverbs in dialogue tags
Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs
totalTags13
adverbTagCount0
adverbTags(empty)
dialogueSentences32
tagDensity0.406
leniency0.813
rawRatio0
effectiveRatio0
90.36% AI-ism adverb frequency
Target: <2% AI-ism adverbs (58 tracked)
wordCount1037
totalAiIsmAdverbs2
found
0
adverb"precisely"
count1
1
adverb"suddenly"
count1
highlights
0"precisely"
1"suddenly"
100.00% AI-ism character names
Target: 0 AI-default names (17 tracked, −20% each)
codexExemptions(empty)
found(empty)
100.00% AI-ism location names
Target: 0 AI-default location names (33 tracked, −20% each)
codexExemptions(empty)
found(empty)
37.32% AI-ism word frequency
Target: <2% AI-ism words (290 tracked)
wordCount1037
totalAiIsms13
found
0
word"charged"
count1
1
word"whisper"
count1
2
word"warmth"
count2
3
word"intensity"
count1
4
word"streaming"
count1
5
word"shimmered"
count1
6
word"quickened"
count1
7
word"absolutely"
count1
8
word"loomed"
count1
9
word"depths"
count1
10
word"pulse"
count1
11
word"resonance"
count1
highlights
0"charged"
1"whisper"
2"warmth"
3"intensity"
4"streaming"
5"shimmered"
6"quickened"
7"absolutely"
8"loomed"
9"depths"
10"pulse"
11"resonance"
100.00% Cliché density
Target: ≤1 cliche(s) per 800-word window
totalCliches0
maxInWindow0
found(empty)
highlights(empty)
100.00% Emotion telling (show vs. tell)
Target: ≤3% sentences with emotion telling
emotionTells0
narrationSentences61
matches(empty)
100.00% Filter word density
Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words
filterCount0
hedgeCount0
narrationSentences61
filterMatches(empty)
hedgeMatches(empty)
100.00% Gibberish response detection
Target: ≤1% gibberish-like sentences (hard fail if a sentence exceeds 800 words)
analyzedSentences80
gibberishSentences0
adjustedGibberishSentences0
longSentenceCount0
runOnParagraphCount0
giantParagraphCount0
wordSaladCount0
repetitionLoopCount0
controlTokenCount0
maxSentenceWordsSeen35
ratio0
matches(empty)
100.00% Markdown formatting overuse
Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting
markdownSpans0
markdownWords0
totalWords1022
ratio0
matches(empty)
100.00% Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)
Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks
totalAttributions9
unquotedAttributions0
matches(empty)
29.29% Name drop frequency
Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words
totalMentions39
wordCount787
uniqueNames8
maxNameDensity2.41
worstName"Aurora"
maxWindowNameDensity4
worstWindowName"Aurora"
discoveredNames
Heartstone1
Nyx7
Aurora19
Uncertainty1
Fae1
Seer1
Isolde8
Dymas1
persons
0"Nyx"
1"Aurora"
2"Isolde"
3"Dymas"
places
0"Seer"
globalScore0.293
windowScore0.333
0.00% Narrator intent-glossing
Target: ≤2% narration sentences with intent-glossing patterns
analyzedSentences51
glossingSentenceCount6
matches
0"felt like too mundane a word"
1"seemed woven from living willow branches, still green and growing, their leaves rustling though no wind moved through the clearing"
2"felt like being read, cover to back, in"
3"felt like acres"
4"something between—a tearing, like fabric ripped"
5"something like concern crossed her ageless f"
0.00% "Not X but Y" pattern overuse
Target: ≤1 "not X but Y" per 1000 words
totalMatches4
per1kWords3.914
wordCount1022
matches
0"Not cold, precisely, but charged with something"
1"not the canopy above but a sky of swirling amber"
2"Not thunder, not wind, but something between"
3"not wind, but something between"
83.33% Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)
Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses
thatCount2
totalSentences80
matches
0"carried that wind"
1"called that—wound"
100.00% Paragraph length variance
Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts
totalParagraphs33
mean30.97
std18.34
cv0.592
sampleLengths
048
134
24
330
459
534
624
758
867
913
104
112
1267
1325
1411
1518
1625
1733
1831
1958
2028
2127
2250
2346
243
2547
2631
2729
2837
299
3035
3111
3224
100.00% Passive voice overuse
Target: ≤2% passive sentences
passiveCount0
totalSentences61
matches(empty)
100.00% Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse
Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs
pastProgressiveCount1
totalVerbs137
matches
0"was staring"
0.00% Em-dash & semicolon overuse
Target: ≤2% sentences with em-dashes/semicolons
emDashCount12
semicolonCount0
flaggedSentences9
totalSentences80
ratio0.113
matches
0"Aurora stepped through the gap between two massive trunks—standing stones, she realized, trees grown around ancient monuments—and felt the air change against her skin."
1"Wildflowers bloomed in riots of colour—bluebells beside sunflowers beside roses that shouldn't exist in the same season, let alone the same month."
2"The path—if it could be called that—wound between flowering hedges that hadn't been visible from the clearing's edge."
3"Flowers grew from the thatched roof—not on it, from it, pushing up through the straw in defiant bursts of violet and crimson."
4"Her eyes—pale lavender, like no human eyes Aurora had ever seen—fixed on them with an intensity that felt like being read, cover to back, in a single glance."
5"More impossible geometry—the clearing that had seemed twenty paces across now stretched into what felt like acres."
6"Its surface reflected not the canopy above but a sky of swirling amber and gold—Dymas's sky, Aurora realized with a jolt."
7"The woman in the water had her face but different eyes—knowing, ancient, sad."
8"Not thunder, not wind, but something between—a tearing, like fabric ripped at the seams."
100.00% Purple prose (modifier overload)
Target: <4% adverbs, <2% -ly adverbs, no adj stacking
wordCount801
adjectiveStacks0
stackExamples(empty)
adverbCount31
adverbRatio0.03870162297128589
lyAdverbCount7
lyAdverbRatio0.008739076154806492
100.00% Repeated phrase echo
Target: ≤20% sentences with echoes (window: 2)
totalSentences80
echoCount0
echoWords(empty)
100.00% Sentence length variance
Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts
totalSentences80
mean12.78
std7.28
cv0.57
sampleLengths
024
124
22
316
416
54
617
77
86
98
1022
1114
1215
1327
141
151
165
1718
186
1918
2018
214
2218
2317
2422
256
2622
2713
284
292
304
3118
3217
3328
3416
359
369
372
3818
397
4011
417
4221
4312
4412
4519
466
4717
4835
4912
80.42% Sentence opener variety
Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers
consecutiveRepeats4
diversityRatio0.5125
totalSentences80
uniqueOpeners41
59.52% Adverb-first sentence starts
Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb
adverbCount1
totalSentences56
matches
0"More impossible geometry—the clearing that"
ratio0.018
100.00% Pronoun-first sentence starts
Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun
pronounCount5
totalSentences56
matches
0"Its walls seemed woven from"
1"Her eyes—pale lavender, like no"
2"She moved past them into"
3"Its surface reflected not the"
4"She looked at Aurora."
ratio0.089
49.29% Subject-first sentence starts
Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject
subjectCount46
totalSentences56
matches
0"The oaks bent inward, their"
1"Aurora stepped through the gap"
2"The Heartstone pendant warmed against"
3"The violet glow of their"
4"The clearing spread before them"
5"Wildflowers bloomed in riots of"
6"The grass beneath Aurora's boots"
7"Each step forward sent ripples"
8"Nyx's voice carried that wind-whisper"
9"Aurora touched the Fae blade"
10"The path—if it could be"
11"Aurora pushed through, branches catching"
12"The pendant's warmth increased."
13"A cottage sat in the"
14"Its walls seemed woven from"
15"Windows glowed with soft amber"
16"Flowers grew from the thatched"
17"Nyx drifted forward, their shadow-form"
18"Aurora followed their gaze."
19"The cottage's entrance stood open,"
ratio0.821
0.00% Subordinate conjunction sentence starts
Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction
subConjCount0
totalSentences56
matches(empty)
ratio0
0.00% Technical jargon density
Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns
analyzedSentences31
technicalSentenceCount9
matches
0"The Heartstone pendant warmed against her collarbone, pulsing once, twice, then settling into a steady thrum."
1"Wildflowers bloomed in riots of colour—bluebells beside sunflowers beside roses that shouldn't exist in the same season, let alone the same month."
2"The path—if it could be called that—wound between flowering hedges that hadn't been visible from the clearing's edge."
3"Aurora pushed through, branches catching at her jacket, releasing scents of honeysuckle and something spiced she couldn't name."
4"Its walls seemed woven from living willow branches, still green and growing, their leaves rustling though no wind moved through the clearing."
5"The cottage's entrance stood open, and sitting on the threshold was a woman who made Aurora's breath catch."
6"Silver hair cascaded down her back, catching the strange filtered light and throwing it back in prisms."
7"Nyx glided alongside, their form flickering between solid and incorporeal as though the grove's strange atmosphere affected even them."
8"Trees Aurora hadn't noticed before revealed themselves: willows with branches that moved like reaching fingers, an ash tree with bark that shimmered silver, oak…"
48.08% Useless dialogue additions
Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments
totalTags13
uselessAdditionCount2
matches
0"Isolde didn't, but her words rang clear"
1"Isolde said, but her voice had lost its musical quality, gone flat and urgent"
87.50% Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)
Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags
totalTags3
fancyCount2
fancyTags
0"she breathed (breathe)"
1"Isolde continued (continue)"
dialogueSentences32
tagDensity0.094
leniency0.188
rawRatio0.667
effectiveRatio0.125
72.1700%