The Wolf looked back at the approaching labyrinth and squinted, trying to figure out what exactly was off it, " Hey Bird brain, how good is your eyesight?"
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âUh, itâs okay I guess? Why does it ma- oh.â
âWell, let me seeâŚâ Morrus squinted as the components of his eyes began to reshape themselves for better distance vision. âThe see thing was not a pun, by the way.â
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âDoesnât it look kinda squiggly to you?â Asked Traykar, struggling to make out the massive ruins before them.
It seemed as though heâd been right about the interior decorations, though perhaps not for the reasons heâd suspected. A strange mix of greens, blues, silvers, and reds dotted the landscape, wiggling and squirming as though it were alive, or rather as though hundreds of insects had descended upon a fresh corpse, gorging themselves on the metaphorical decaying flesh. What wasnât covered with these fleshy masses were carelessly smattered with some sort of rope, no, it wasnât rope, on closer inspection, they were websâŚ
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Morrus squinted with an expression that every few seconds between repulsion and utter confusion.
âThatâs bizarre. Itâs like the islandâs surface is⌠Moving. But that canât be right.â Morrus strained his eyes further, but to no avail. âItâs like a smeared canvas constantly being repeatedly ruined. I canât decipher what it means.â
âWait⌠Is that rope?â
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âI, I mean the maze shifts, but not like that.â
ââŚâ
âRope?â
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âYeah, um⌠Itâs a kind of woven string of sorts, made up of⌠Never mind.â
Morrus glared at the island again. âBut why would someone cover the island in ropeâŚ? Itâs gotta be very old rope. Itâs all grey and worn.â
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@rainsong Kryunaâs expression went deadpan as she raised an eyebrow at Lync, contemplating weather the guard was playing dumb, or was really just that dumb.
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Ekimu doesnât fight the pull, even leaping with it as he swings for the Betrayerâs faceâŚ
Mid-swing, committed to his course, he sees Blaze reaching in front of him. You foolâŚ
âBlaze, no!â Dax barks, dropping his weapons and darting after Blaze. He grabs for Blazeâs shoulder and Ekimuâs arm, trying to pull them away from the axe.
The first inkling Ekimu has of the Betrayerâs plan is a sharp pain in his shoulder, arcing down his side, and suddenly there is only pain, his shoulder consumed by it even as he watches the axe fly past him - fly through him - at Erebos and Blaze.
Dax says a silent prayer to Terak, pulling with all his might on Blaze in a vain hope of saving his life.
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With one hand tightly clutching the mask, the mask of psionics was ripped off of Erebosâs face, and for one, glorious second, it was in the fire okotanâs hand as two things happened: He saw Dax leap at him from the corners of his eye, and her heard a loud whistling sound, accompanied by a glimmer of light. Both hit him around the same time, causing him to feel a sharp pain in his arm as he hit the snow. The pain he felt was unlike any he had experienced before, a bitter sting that gnawed at him and consumed his thoughts until the only thing he could do is cry out in anquish. Laying out in front of him, was the mask heâd so desperately fought for, his hand still tightly clutching it, and a smattering of blood linking the twoâŚ
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Blaze screamed as the injury registered in his head as the nerves felt as though they were being soaked in some mixture of acid and magma. He tries to crawl towards the mask to grab it with his whole arm but struggles as the pain of his now missing appendage was all but dominating his entire mind.
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The Lord of the Undying Storm slowly stood from his athletic position upon throwing the axe. It had kicked up a nasty amount of snow and dirt after it made contact with the group, and his first thought was to try and visually locate it.
Well, that could probably wait. There had been a sudden dive of people scrambling for the mask, and Blaze was wailing like a baby. Poor little mask maker, probably got cut to the bone by a traveling axe. If nothing else, it would learn him from trying to interfere with the grownupâs work and stick to vain lectures about fire and whatnot. Like the Lord of the Soil used to say, theâŚ
The Lord of the Undying Storm had been slowly and triumphantly walking towards the fallen party to gloat about how he had just one-shot Erebos. The next instant he broke into a mad sprint, sliding on one knee up to the fallen and wounded blaze, his hands trembling as his eyes crawled even further back into the two deep pits which were their sockets.
Blaze might be able to see the giant figure now aside him after temporarily blinding his vision with sandy soil. If he bothered to make eye contact with the Lord of the Undying Storm, he might be in time to watch him visually put one and two together, his head slowly rising in the direction of Ekimu.
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Erebos laid wounded where he had fallen, nearly cleaved in two as he bled out into the snow, blankly staring up at the sky, slowly expiring as he uttered his final words: âP-pain,â -wheeze- âPain is, hughf, is in the m-mind, but, the damage, is, huff, realâŚâ
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Blaze, weakly, began to try and turn his head to try and see what the Storm was looking at.
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freed from the maskâs illusions, Twenty Three saw what had happened, and ran up to the group, keeping a considerable distance away as she observed with horror.
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Tarkur in a hurry made his way over to the rest of the group. He glared at the undying storm after noticing it was the storms axe that had been thrown. He shock his head in disapproval as he made his way over to check on Ekimu, Dax and Blaze.
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âWhy would someone cover the labyrinth with old ropes? Seems like a waste of time to me, doesnât seem like something that the creators would do, eh, wherever they are now.â
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âYou ask why the creators of tacky wallpaper added ropes to the exterior of their monument, with an audience that has significantly less of an answer than you do.â Morrus mumbled. âEspecially with the way theyâre all tied to each other at random points like a⌠like a⌠Honestly, if I didnât know better, Iâd say they were massive spider webs, but thatâs stupid.â
Gladius pulled his sword out of the ground.
The party was still traversing through jungle, but the indicators that they were nearing civilization were rapidly increasing. Cleared trees in certain locations - although not their path, evidently - along with worn areas of ground seemed to indicate occasional travel. But they were seemingly at random, and may not have occurred any time recently, so aside from being an indicator that they were heading in the generally correct direction, it wasnât much help.
Gladius kicked aside the fallen limb he had moments ago split asunder for having the audacity to block his path, not feeling motivated to crawl over it. The sudden expenditure of energy was followed immediately by an apathetic calmness, which may have been more of an indicator of a weary temper than his sudden irritation.
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âOh, wow! itâs not like giant spiders have ever been a problem.â Scoffed Forty Four, before pausing,âI-if it is chalk full of Spiders, coming here m-might not the best idea.â
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âNo, they havenât.â
ââŚHave they?â
âI did not fly across the ocean for several hours to get scared and leave.â Morrus grumbled. âI have no idea if itâs chock full of spiders, but if it is, theyâll have to learn to step aside.â
The last line was spoken with a sting of the aristocratic arrogance Morrus displayed back upon his arrival in the region of jungle. These common spiders must learn to bow to authority or be trodden underfoot.
âŚIf there were any, of course.
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âIâd say that itâs your funeral, but thanks to you itâll probably be mine too.â
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