>>5308421The metallic icon displays a twin headed snake coiling around itself to form a braided knot before finally consuming its own twin tails. "Ouroboros Project… Theta?" The young man mumbles softly, toying the hat back and forth. "Sole scion? Protege? Prize Child? I don't recognize your project branch. That's a typical sign of a newly developed integration practice. Well?" The pilot turned his attention finally away from you, staring blankly off into the distance. Eyes you swore had yet to blink still open, just looking at them made your eyeballs itch. The feeling never completely leaves. Being so close left you feeling faintly nauseous. His aura is bleak, you were unsure how else to describe it. Sitting next to him you swore the shadows hardened and the lights dimmed. "Yes. I believe so." Mistress Yuga hadn't explained much, but one thing was clear. She only wanted the best, you just happened to be it.
Whether she made you that way or if you had been born with it, well that was up to some contention. "You've been bloodied… didn't you hear me, no novice would have approached me. You've been there haven't you? The Lightless Lake. Can't you taste it? You stink just as bad as I do. Bathed in the black. They are below…" Oracle gnaws his lips as he talks, his words little more than riddles. You feel sick, a cold sweat breaking across your brow. You didn't understand him. Not all of it anyway. You weren't sure what he meant. Thinking how to respond only results in you breathing hard, nostrils flaring as a pressure builds up. Phantoms find their hands on your body, sinking through cloth and flesh. Grasping you by the bones, you jump occasionally without little prompting. The world grows darker and darker. Sinking further and further. Turning to spot the perpetrator you see nothing, fleeting breath on your neck reassuring your assumption.
She was watching.
