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Hey so I’ve stalking this new story line for awhile now – I don’t know if I’ll be able to keep this up, but this new threat is interesting and I couldn’t resist lol

Misu:

Ferran and Liorah were nowhere to be seen.

First the hall had turned into a city – not an everyday occurrence, to be sure, but not entirely unexpected.  It certainly wasn’t the strangest thing he’d ever seen in his existence.

And then there were those giant packs of wolves.  And combustible black slimes.  And then a skyscraper fell and that’s when Liorah and Ferran disappeared…

Misu sighed.

This is getting me nowhere.

Misu picked his way through the cavern, his footsteps dimly echoing in the damp chamber.  He pulled his coat tighter around his shoulders.  The air was cold down here.  Cold and stifling – just like Spire, except maybe a little less polluted.

Maybe a lot less polluted.

This cave was deep, and darker than night.  If he were like, say Ferran and Liorah, navigation would be impossible here.  He grinned.

Good thing I’m not like them, then.

He could see things that they couldn’t, after all.  Like the glaze of countless crystals painted on the roof of the cavern – like millions of stars, millions of matches waiting to ignite at the first kindling of light, and there was that still, clear lake just ten feet away to his right, and underneath that clear surface…

This place is corrupted.

Misu frowned.

There’s something dark in here.

I can sense it.

A choked gasp ripped through the silence air.  Slimy tendrils shot out of the water, rippling and throbbing as they slithered along the path, spilling darkness like oil on a lake…

A wild shriek tore through the cavern just as the tentacles started to retreat.

“Oh no you don’t!”

The walls of the cavern kindled, igniting in a brilliant refraction of blazing white light.  The still water erupted in a mirror reflection of light and wings and thousands upon thousands of wheeling eyes.

We’re not playing in your plane of existence anymore.

The creature reeled, shrinking back as the inky darkness began to disintegrate.

Just a second more and…

The lake heaved, erupting in a violent explosion of water and piercing white light.  Misu snatched the young man out, shielding him against the rushing tide.  The darkness was gone.

You’re safe now.

The light suddenly died out as Misu dragged the young man out.  He choked, gasping and heaving on the dark shore.  Misu sighed in relief.

“Are you ok?  That was a nasty close call you had there,”  He winced.

No no no, don’t start that way!  He’s already traumatized enough as it is!

Misu shrugged off his coat, gently placing it over the young man’s shoulders.  “You can call me Misu.  What’s your name?”  He crouched down beside him, gazing him anxiously.