>>5747255As you stare at the gently writing darkness, feeling it drawing you in, you start to instinctively raise a hand towards it. The mass feels slightly warm as your hand gets closer, not as if it would burn you should you touch it, but noticeably warmer than the Abyss around you. But you don't immediately touch it, seeing your hand and arm, what's not covered in burns is drenched in Abyssal darkness. You pull back a bit, unsure what to do next. But as you hesitate, debating on if you should take this thing suddenly you remember what it reminds you of. It's like the soul of that four armed white creature that attacked you in the Abyss on New Salda, the one it ripped from you. But instead of being a flame, this instead looks more like a flame's shadow, a dark reflection of power you'd claimed and lost before.
You stand, frozen by indecisiveness, when suddenly you feel that something's watching you. Turning your head, you then see, well, something watching you from the darkness. It looks like a ghostly form of blackness lined with a faint, fading white aura, a pair of dull white eyes staring blankly at you. At first there's the one, then two, then another, more and more joining to all come look at you. Or, perhaps, they're drawn to the soul still floating there before you? After all, as beings of this Abyss, no doubt they felt it when their master was defeated. The dark forms make no attempts to get closer, staying just outside the reach of your emerald aura's light. But they all are gathering, more and more by the second as if waiting for something to happen. But what?
Well? What do you do?
>Take the soul, grasp it with your hand and claim its power for your own. Won't be the first time you've claimed a soul in a battle down in an Abyss, and this one seems stronger>Leave it there, the Abyss is better left well enough alone. You need to get your daughter and get out of here<span class="mu-r">40 minute vote, no write ins</span>
