>>5740643“Sure, I'll go for another.” you reply, walking over to the center of the room and planting your feet. You are curious what else this power of his can do, and what had sent your instincts off in that space. “Whenever you're ready.”
“You sure?” he asks, you nodding to your son. Who nods back, then meets your gaze with blazing eyes once more. Again everything disappears into the darkness, the stone of the labyrinth appearing all around you again, walls, floor, and ceiling. And unlike before, there isn't nearly as much darkness as before, revealing about four times the distance, you seeing the path ahead branch off into three ways.
But you don't focus on that, instead closing your eyes and reaching out with your ki sense. You don't sense another living being, despite your son and daughters being only a few feet away. You then try and focus on your hearing, but no one makes a sound for a second. Then you hear a footstep somewhere off to your right where Okira'd been but then from above you hear your son “Shhhh” her. Immediately you look up, only for his voice to have come from behind the stone wall above. Which means one of these paths has to lead up. So you rush forward to the split, peer down each one. The left and right paths all turn ninety degrees in their respective ways from which you're facing, while the center one starts leading downwards. Not where you want to go. So, closing your eyes you turn right, closing your eyes so you don't see any more and start heading down that path.
But keeping your eyes closed is harder than you'd thought, as after what feels like only a few steps slam face-first into a wall, your eyes opening on reflex. Again taking you back to the same seeming hall as before, ending in the same three branching paths.
“Oh, so it's like that, huh?” you mutter, thinking that it is some sort of puzzle. Something you have to take the right choices to get through. Immediately you rush forward, coming to the choice again and take the left this time. Which leads to a split in the hallway in another dozen feet, one going left and the other going right. The left path is on a slight incline, while the right path is on a decline. Immediately you take the upwards path, only for it to open up beneath you as you run a half-dozen steps. You try and fly to maintain your spot but drop down regardless, landing on your feet back in front of the triple path once more. “What the hell?”
Then, as you stand there, feel that same sensation on the back of your neck, like a predator is watching you and waiting for its chance to attack. You turn, aura blazing up but see nothing except an identical hallway as the one behind you, three paths ahead of you once more. However, that feeling of something behind you creeping closer intensifies.
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