>>5513638You point a finger at yourself. “I-I said that?”
Naylan easily hoists the tied male attacker to his feet while he chuckles to himself. “You made the right choice in career, short-stuff.”
Denos tightly cinches a strip of bandages around the other attacker’s open wounds, and roughly picks up the injured and whimpering woman. “Keep to your talents, right?”
What’s that supposed to mean?!
Cyrene turns back to them with a glare. “Don’t be so rude! Boys…” She shakes her head while she finishes writing the last few words of her letter. “There, all don-“
In that moment, Cyrene’s voice and all the small sounds that the group of humans around you muffle as if the sound could be hampered by the cold.
However, it isn’t exactly silent. Sight and sound muffle as if drowned by the sea that transported you here.
But, clearer than beating of your own heart, a discordant pulse infects your tissue, your bones, your very blood. Clearer than desire to escape the bitter cold, the pervasive urge to fixate your vision on a singular rift in the sky, and allow your eyes to be violated by the ethereal shades of offal that drip like rendered fat from the sky into the hungry sea. Clearer than even your conscience within, the mindless voice of an unknown entity sings with otherworldly tenor and presence a mindless melody that smears your senses across a cold and vacant oblivion.
Your sword has already dropped to the ground by the time Naylan shakes your body in a futile attempt to draw you back to plain reality he inhabits.
In the world you’re removed from, Grygas helplessly tries to rouse his daughter from convulsions rack her small body. Her eyes are wide, unblinking, and fixated upon the same eldritch tear that forms over the singular point within the sea.
Violent coughs soon follow her convulsions, and into the sharp winter air, fine white spores spill forth from her mouth and noise along with forcefully expelled saliva.
On the pure white snow, blood slowly appears, leaking from a singular spot between her legs and pulled fruitlessly towards the sea by the great unseen force.
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