Run: 2026-02-20-01KHXQ5R3PCRE3NQN6S4Z6DVGF

Run Details

Duration:
16.8s
Cost:
$0.003787
Provider:
Mistral

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 air thickened the moment they crossed the threshold. One step, they stood beneath the skeletal branches of Richmond Park’s winter oaks, the next—warmth, like breath against the back of the neck. The grove didn’t announce itself with fanfare. No gust of wind, no dramatic shift in light. Just the sudden *absence* of London’s damp chill, replaced by something older, something alive. Rory’s boots sank into moss so dense it swallowed sound. She flexed her fingers, half-expecting the Heartstone at her throat to burn. It didn’t. Only pulsed, slow and steady, like a second heartbeat. Nyx coalesced beside her, their form rippling from smoke to solid—a tall, featureless silhouette with violet eyes like embers in a void. **"This place remembers me."** Their voice didn’t so much *speak* as *unfold*, layers of whisper overlapping whisper. **"The last time I stood here, the stones were younger."** Rory exhaled, fog curling from her lips despite the unnatural warmth. "You say that like it’s not terrifying." Ahead, the standing stones loomed, their bark gnarled into sigils that writhed when stared at too long. Not carved. *Grown*. The oak’s roots twisted above ground, forming arches like the ribs of some slumbering beast. Isolde slipped between them, her silver hair catching the dappled light that wasn’t quite sunlight. **"Come. The grove doesn’t like to be kept waiting."** The deeper they walked, the more the world *leaned*. Gravity tugged sideways, then righted itself. Rory’s stomach lurched. The trees here grew in impossible spirals, their leaves not green but shades of copper and bruise-purple, shifting hue as they rustled. No wind touched them. They moved on their own. Eva would’ve loved this. The thought hit like a punch. Rory shoved it down. Nyx’s fingers—if they could be called fingers—brushed a low-hanging branch. The moment they touched, the bark *sighed*, a sound like a cello’s lowest note. **"It sings."** "Everything here *does* something, doesn’t it?" Rory muttered. Isolde didn’t answer. She didn’t need to. The half-Fae’s bare feet didn’t so much as bend the grass beneath them. She moved like she was part of the place, her lavender eyes half-lidded, lips curved in something between a smile and a secret. **"The Veil is thin here. Like skin over a wound."** She plucked a flower from the air—a bloom of deep indigo that hadn’t been there a second before—and tucked it behind Rory’s ear. **"Wear it. It’ll keep the worse things from noticing you."** Rory didn’t ask what *worse things* meant. She already knew. The grove’s heart opened before them: a clearing where the sky wasn’t sky but a swirl of colours, oil-on-water, shifting from twilight violet to the sickly green of a storm about to break. At its centre stood a pool, its surface so still it looked like glass. Not water. Something thicker. Something that *watched*. Nyx’s form flickered. **"That wasn’t here before."** Isolde’s smile turned razor-thin. **"No. It wasn’t."** Rory crouched at the pool’s edge, the Fae blade—cold always, but colder now—pressed against her palm. The reflection staring back wasn’t hers. Not quite. The woman in the water had her face, her black hair, but her eyes were wrong. Too wide. Too *hungry*. And when Rory blinked, the reflection didn’t. She recoiled. Isolde’s fingers closed around her wrist, not tight enough to hurt, but firm. **"Don’t look too long. Some mirrors are doors."** Nyx’s shadow stretched unnaturally long across the ground, their voice dropping to a growl. **"We’re not alone."** The grove held its breath. Then—the *scent*. Sweet and rotten all at once, like overripe fruit left to ferment in the sun. Rory’s mouth flooded with saliva, her stomach cramping. The Heartstone flared hot against her collarbone. From the trees, *they* emerged. Not people. Not animals. Things with too many limbs, their bodies a patchwork of bark and sinew, their faces—if they could be called faces—smooth and blank as river stones. They moved in jerky, unnatural motions, like marionettes with cut strings. One by one, they stepped into the clearing, forming a loose semicircle. Their fingers (too long, too many) twitched. Hungry. Isolde’s grip on Rory didn’t waver. **"Ah. The grove’s guardians. How… *devoted* of them to greet us."** Nyx’s form rippled, their edges bleeding into the shadows like ink in water. **"Devoted or starving?"** The things took another step forward. The air hummed, a low vibration that set Rory’s teeth on edge. The pool’s surface roiled, the not-Rory in the water smiling now, her lips parting to reveal teeth filed to points. Rory’s hand went to the Fae blade. "What do they want?" Isolde’s laugh was a silver chime. **"The same thing everything wants, little mortal. *A taste.*"** The closest guardian lunged. Nyx moved faster. Their shadow *unfurled*, swallowing the creature whole. A wet, tearing sound. A scream that wasn’t a scream but the splintering of old wood. The thing dissolved into a shower of petals—black as coal, reeking of decay. The others hesitated. Rory didn’t. She slashed the Fae blade through the air, not at the guardians, but at the pool. The water—if it was water—*shattered*. The reflection screamed, a sound that clawed at Rory’s skull, and then the pool was just a pool again, its surface dark and still. Silence. The remaining guardians twitched. Then, one by one, they turned and melted back into the trees, their bodies unravelling like yarn. Isolde’s breath hitched. **"Well. That was… unexpected."** Nyx’s form solidified, their violet eyes narrow. **"You’ve been holding out on us, half-blood."** Isolde ignored them. She knelt by the pool’s edge, dipping her fingers into the now-still water. When she withdrew them, they were stained crimson. **"The Veil is bleeding."** She looked at Rory, her pale eyes unreadable. **"Someone’s been *digging*."** Rory wiped the blade on her thigh, the metal singing faintly against the leather. "Digging for what?" Isolde stood, her silver hair catching the shifting light. **"The same thing you’re after, Aurora Carter."** She held out her hand. Resting in her palm was a single, thorned vine, its tip glistening with the same crimson as the pool. **"A way into Hel."**
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Evaluation details

Result Evaluator Details Meta Data
100.00% Adverbs in dialogue tags
Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs
totalTags5
adverbTagCount0
adverbTags(empty)
dialogueSentences23
tagDensity0.217
leniency0.435
rawRatio0
effectiveRatio0
100.00% AI-ism adverb frequency
Target: <2% AI-ism adverbs (58 tracked)
wordCount1032
totalAiIsmAdverbs0
found(empty)
highlights(empty)
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)
27.33% AI-ism word frequency
Target: <2% AI-ism words (290 tracked)
wordCount1032
totalAiIsms15
found
0
word"warmth"
count2
1
word"chill"
count1
2
word"pulsed"
count1
3
word"whisper"
count2
4
word"loomed"
count1
5
word"stomach"
count2
6
word"lurched"
count1
7
word"flickered"
count1
8
word"shattered"
count1
9
word"silence"
count1
10
word"unreadable"
count1
11
word"glistening"
count1
highlights
0"warmth"
1"chill"
2"pulsed"
3"whisper"
4"loomed"
5"stomach"
6"lurched"
7"flickered"
8"shattered"
9"silence"
10"unreadable"
11"glistening"
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
narrationSentences97
matches(empty)
100.00% Filter word density
Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words
filterCount0
hedgeCount0
narrationSentences97
filterMatches(empty)
hedgeMatches(empty)
100.00% Gibberish response detection
Target: ≤1% gibberish-like sentences (hard fail if a sentence exceeds 800 words)
analyzedSentences115
gibberishSentences0
adjustedGibberishSentences0
longSentenceCount0
runOnParagraphCount0
giantParagraphCount0
wordSaladCount0
repetitionLoopCount0
controlTokenCount0
maxSentenceWordsSeen35
ratio0
matches(empty)
0.00% Markdown formatting overuse
Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting
markdownSpans33
markdownWords130
totalWords1008
ratio0.129
matches
0"absence"
1"\"This place remembers me.\""
2"speak"
3"unfold"
4"\"The last time I stood here, the stones were younger.\""
5"Grown"
6"\"Come. The grove doesn’t like to be kept waiting.\""
7"leaned"
8"sighed"
9"\"It sings.\""
10"does"
11"\"The Veil is thin here. Like skin over a wound.\""
12"\"Wear it. It’ll keep the worse things from noticing you.\""
13"worse things"
14"watched"
15"\"That wasn’t here before.\""
16"\"No. It wasn’t.\""
17"hungry"
18"\"Don’t look too long. Some mirrors are doors.\""
19"\"We’re not alone.\""
20"scent"
21"they"
22"\"Ah. The grove’s guardians. How… *devoted* of them to greet us.\""
23"\"Devoted or starving?\""
24"\"The same thing everything wants, little mortal. *A taste.*\""
25"unfurled"
26"shattered"
27"\"Well. That was… unexpected.\""
28"\"You’ve been holding out on us, half-blood.\""
29"\"The Veil is bleeding.\""
30"\"Someone’s been *digging*.\""
31"\"The same thing you’re after, Aurora Carter.\""
32"\"A way into Hel.\""
100.00% Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)
Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks
totalAttributions11
unquotedAttributions0
matches(empty)
46.91% Name drop frequency
Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words
totalMentions44
wordCount873
uniqueNames9
maxNameDensity2.06
worstName"Rory"
maxWindowNameDensity3.5
worstWindowName"Rory"
discoveredNames
Richmond1
Park1
London1
Heartstone2
Rory18
Isolde9
Fae4
Resting1
Nyx7
persons
0"Heartstone"
1"Rory"
2"Isolde"
3"Nyx"
places
0"Richmond"
1"Park"
2"London"
3"Fae"
globalScore0.469
windowScore0.5
22.88% Narrator intent-glossing
Target: ≤2% narration sentences with intent-glossing patterns
analyzedSentences59
glossingSentenceCount3
matches
0"quite sunlight"
1"something between a smile and a secret"
2"looked like glass"
0.00% "Not X but Y" pattern overuse
Target: ≤1 "not X but Y" per 1000 words
totalMatches3
per1kWords2.976
wordCount1008
matches
0"not green but shades of copper"
1"not tight enough to hurt, but firm"
2"not at the guardians, but at the pool"
100.00% Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)
Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses
thatCount0
totalSentences115
matches(empty)
100.00% Paragraph length variance
Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts
totalParagraphs39
mean25.85
std22.61
cv0.875
sampleLengths
09
186
249
318
459
549
64
710
826
98
1086
1110
1254
137
147
1551
162
1721
1817
195
2032
215
2260
2317
2416
2538
2611
2715
284
2939
303
3147
321
3321
347
3514
3639
3717
3844
100.00% Passive voice overuse
Target: ≤2% passive sentences
passiveCount1
totalSentences97
matches
0"was water—*shattered"
100.00% Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse
Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs
pastProgressiveCount0
totalVerbs148
matches(empty)
0.00% Em-dash & semicolon overuse
Target: ≤2% sentences with em-dashes/semicolons
emDashCount14
semicolonCount0
flaggedSentences9
totalSentences115
ratio0.078
matches
0"One step, they stood beneath the skeletal branches of Richmond Park’s winter oaks, the next—warmth, like breath against the back of the neck."
1"Nyx coalesced beside her, their form rippling from smoke to solid—a tall, featureless silhouette with violet eyes like embers in a void."
2"Nyx’s fingers—if they could be called fingers—brushed a low-hanging branch."
3"**\"The Veil is thin here. Like skin over a wound.\"** She plucked a flower from the air—a bloom of deep indigo that hadn’t been there a second before—and tucked it behind Rory’s ear."
4"Rory crouched at the pool’s edge, the Fae blade—cold always, but colder now—pressed against her palm."
5"Then—the *scent*."
6"Things with too many limbs, their bodies a patchwork of bark and sinew, their faces—if they could be called faces—smooth and blank as river stones."
7"The thing dissolved into a shower of petals—black as coal, reeking of decay."
8"The water—if it was water—*shattered*."
100.00% Purple prose (modifier overload)
Target: <4% adverbs, <2% -ly adverbs, no adj stacking
wordCount896
adjectiveStacks0
stackExamples(empty)
adverbCount33
adverbRatio0.036830357142857144
lyAdverbCount4
lyAdverbRatio0.004464285714285714
100.00% Repeated phrase echo
Target: ≤20% sentences with echoes (window: 2)
totalSentences115
echoCount0
echoWords(empty)
100.00% Sentence length variance
Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts
totalSentences115
mean8.77
std6.66
cv0.759
sampleLengths
09
123
27
39
414
510
612
72
89
922
1017
1110
1211
137
1417
152
161
1715
1815
199
209
216
223
2322
244
255
264
276
284
2910
3014
312
328
333
344
3513
3623
3733
3810
397
403
4133
4214
432
442
453
463
474
484
493
55.94% Sentence opener variety
Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers
consecutiveRepeats9
diversityRatio0.3826086956521739
totalSentences115
uniqueOpeners44
100.00% Adverb-first sentence starts
Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb
adverbCount3
totalSentences81
matches
0"Just the sudden *absence* of"
1"Only pulsed, slow and steady,"
2"Then, one by one, they"
ratio0.037
100.00% Pronoun-first sentence starts
Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun
pronounCount14
totalSentences81
matches
0"She flexed her fingers, half-expecting"
1"Their voice didn’t so much"
2"They moved on their own."
3"She didn’t need to."
4"She moved like she was"
5"She plucked a flower from"
6"She already knew."
7"They moved in jerky, unnatural"
8"Their fingers (too long, too"
9"Their shadow *unfurled*, swallowing the"
10"She slashed the Fae blade"
11"She knelt by the pool’s"
12"She looked at Rory, her"
13"She held out her hand"
ratio0.173
46.42% Subject-first sentence starts
Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject
subjectCount67
totalSentences81
matches
0"The air thickened the moment"
1"The grove didn’t announce itself"
2"Rory’s boots sank into moss"
3"She flexed her fingers, half-expecting"
4"Nyx coalesced beside her, their"
5"Their voice didn’t so much"
6"Rory exhaled, fog curling from"
7"The oak’s roots twisted above"
8"Isolde slipped between them, her"
9"The deeper they walked, the"
10"Gravity tugged sideways, then righted"
11"Rory’s stomach lurched."
12"The trees here grew in"
13"They moved on their own."
14"Eva would’ve loved this."
15"The thought hit like a"
16"Rory shoved it down."
17"Nyx’s fingers—if they could be"
18"The moment they touched, the"
19"Isolde didn’t answer."
ratio0.827
0.00% Subordinate conjunction sentence starts
Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction
subConjCount0
totalSentences81
matches(empty)
ratio0
100.00% Technical jargon density
Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns
analyzedSentences35
technicalSentenceCount2
matches
0"The pool’s surface roiled, the not-Rory in the water smiling now, her lips parting to reveal teeth filed to points."
1"Resting in her palm was a single, thorned vine, its tip glistening with the same crimson as the pool."
25.00% Useless dialogue additions
Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments
totalTags5
uselessAdditionCount1
matches
0"She looked, her pale eyes unreadable"
63.04% Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)
Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags
totalTags2
fancyCount2
fancyTags
0"Their voice didn’t (do)"
1"Rory muttered (mutter)"
dialogueSentences23
tagDensity0.087
leniency0.174
rawRatio1
effectiveRatio0.174
72.9173%