>>5366018You look down the the sky to your feet and find yourself standing naked atop dry, cracked earth.
Looking up again, you see the air is tinted an even deeper red than the nebula you'd been fighting in all day, as if a mist of blood was hanging in the air.
Piles of dried-up corpses litter the landscape. Some humanoid, other quadruped in nature. Others still are more like bags of deflated flesh.
You recognize them. They're the same as the husks you encountered on that ship. They should be long dead, but a faint light sits behind their beady, black, deeply sunken eyes.
And each and every one of them, you just now notice, is looking at you.
They can't move. They don't have the energy for it, but you can feel it in your bones. They're thirsty. So thirsty that you couldn't possibly comprehend it, and that's why they're staring you down.
If only they had the energy, just enough to crawl a single inch, they'd be coming for you. They'd peel your skin off and drink the fluids from your body like sucking the sap out of a tree, until nothing was left.
They can't, though. Even if they had the strength, you'd never let them do it.
Your bare foot slams down on the skull of one husk, crushing it in a pall of dust that gently blows away, carried by the faint winds of this strange place.
However, another husk reaches out to grab at your ankle. It's grip is so weak, you can barely tell it's even touching you.
But you still look down, and find it's torso sticking out of the pile of husks by your side. It stares up at you, almost begging in a way.
Your voice echoes with authority across the plane as you speak down at it.
"The dead should lie still."
Almost as if your tone was enough to kill it, the light fades from it's eyes and it falls limp.
Not just it, but many of the husks around you all fall still by your command, whatever will or being that kept them going snuffed out as easily as a candle in the wind.
In front of you, there is a mound. Atop that mound is a single, withered tree. It's bark is black, as if burnt by fire, and it's surrounded by grave-like obelisks which are hard to make out from where you stand.
Behind you and to your sides, you see nothing but mounds of husks, until the fog covers it all.
Above you, the stars in the night sky are still visible.
>Examine the tree>Walk away, into the fog>Return to the void, and the stars>Write-In? 