D&D Excerpts

So, in a dream, Aurem made Snow an offer: "In three days, remove that charm, apologize to me, and make a deal... or else I will do something to you that you could never begin to imagine." So, three days came and went; in that time Snow looked into making pacts with archfeys and other gods to oppose Aurem, but nothing was certain.

That night Snow falls asleep. The DM says to make a save against the dream; I roll, but before we even see the number, he says: "It doesn't matter, you fail."

Aurem asks at first. "Do you apologize?"
"No."
"Before you decide... I ___ that Alayla no longer had creativity. I ___ that the village burned to the ground... I can go on. Do you apologize?"
"I am not going to apologize to you."

This goes on, and for a moment Snow considers it... but in the end... "I will not apologize."
Aurem stabs Snow with a tentacle, she wakes up, and then the real nightmare begins.

Her village is raided by kenku, Aurem herself shows up, she kinda turns Snow to stone but Snow at least gets a Dissonant Whisper spell off, Aurem silences Alalya, Snow passes out...
And she comes to in an amphitheater- she same theatre that Zeta gave her speech in. There, basically, anyone she knew and cared about has been stripped of their weapons and armor. Snow is given her old gear, and Aurem casts Dominate Person.

Snow is forced to murder everyone. Horribly.

The DM tells me to choose two from a specific list of the people here; I choose at random, unsure if I am to kill them first, or spare them. I end up sparing a friend from my flock and the village elder.
Aurem lifts the spell. Snow is devastated... and the elder, angry and betrayed, moved forward and casts some potent magic, fighting Snow, though Snow doesn’t fight back.

Snow gives in. She casts Message to Aurem, 'You win... I'm sorry...'
"Oh, I know I won... I wish that you couldn't cast spells." Wish goes off. "I wish that you could only speak if I told you to." It goes off. "Lastly... Though, I am out of wish spells for today... I wish that you know who. Really. Won. For all of eternity. And, I still need you for my breeding program..."

She drags Snow off. And... yeah. My bird is nothing but a slave. Her purpose is she makes babies now; Aurem surely uses some wish spells to prolong her life, keep her from dying... With no voice, and no magic, she isn't much of a bard... but she still has creativity. It's… horrible. 

And all the while, Snow holds on to a single hope… That maybe, one day… She’ll wake up from this horrible nightmare...

And one day... she does.
Aurem offers to her again. “Do you apologize?”
Of course. Of course, she does. She makes whatever deal Aurem wants of her; she ends up losing an eye and swearing to never interfere with Aurem's plans, but in return, Snow, Alayla, and her children are to be left alone.

And... She wakes up. And she remembers that dream with unwavering clarity, no matter what.
Her spirit is broken, her resolve and determination, that defiance… Gone…
The Snow that remains in that elven village isn’t the same person that she was. She’ll never be that person again.

And it didn’t even take wishes.
All it took was a single 9th level spell slot. And a dream.