Ashwood’s Favorite Elixir, What’s Really Inside Mistfortune?

In Ashwood, some secrets are passed down like family heirlooms, hidden, cherished, never spoken aloud. One of those secrets bubbles in every soda fountain, vending machine, and corner store cooler across town: Mistfortune.

On paper, it’s just a soda, fizzy, refreshing, the kind of thing teenagers crack open at the Lantern Diner or toss into their backpacks at Hollow & Sons. But like most things in Ashwood, nothing is ever just what it seems.

Locals describe the taste as blue raspberry candy, sharp and electric, but listen closely and you’ll hear a dozen other theories. Some swear there’s a floral note that doesn’t belong in a soda, hibiscus, they whisper, giving Mistfortune its strange purplish glimmer under the light. Others claim the flavor deepens depending on the batch: blueberry, grape, even something darker they can’t quite name.

An old clerk at Hollow & Sons once muttered that Mistfortune was “different every time, depending on who’s drinking it.” He refused to explain, saying only that the town’s water has “its own history.”

Of course, the official line is simple: a harmless lemon-lime soda with a berry twist. But if that’s true, why do so many insist the taste… shifts? That it’s never quite the same from one bottle to the next?

Maybe it’s just urban legend. Or maybe, like everything in Ashwood, the truth is hiding in plain sight.

After all, as the posters across town remind us:

Mistfortune, it’s in your blood.