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The vampire who looked like my wife stared coldly up at me, hard ruby eyes the polar opposite of the bottomless blue black Callie sported, both in color and regard. It fel…alien. Like she was a hunting falcon who was eyeing a mouse from afar. It was painful to see that expression on features I...
We entered the Acropolis carefully. The rest of the maze wasn’t too much trouble, and when we passed through the passage down into the earth, I was surprised by how quiet and empty it was. Eventually, we emerged onto a large plateau overlooking a quiet, dark cavern.
It was…astonishing. A city...
The entrance to the Acropolis was creepy. I had kind of expected that, but I wasn’t prepared for exactly how jarring the place was when we entered. The torchlight acted as kind of a barrier, forcing everyone who entered to pause and then continue carefully. Specifically, the flickering light...
Emerging from the soul space took me a second to adapt to. The environment of the Chasm was so radically different from the interior of that church in my wife’s soul. I opened my eyes calmly, searching around for the others. Once we’d gotten in, I’d let Dayna, Chloe, and Brad out of the Domain...
I arrived in my wife’s soul space without much fanfare, but she knew the second I showed up. It only took her a second to appear, and I could see from the concern on her face that she wasn’t expecting me to be there. “Shane,” she said as she hurried over to where I sat by the altar. “What’s...
Stepping into the crevice that was the Valley of Broken Gods was a surreal experience. In some ways, it just looked like an empty cave, but I got a palpable sensation of otherness on entry. Or rather, several senses of otherness. Such as: a hungry beast lurking in the darkness, a shadowy...
"We should go back,” Brad announced boldly as we followed the arrow of Heretic Fire towards what I was assuming was the Temple Mount. “We can totally get in and out without him noticing! I can make a big hole in the tower!”
“He IS the tower,” I groaned. “How would he POSSIBLY not notice that...
Kane escorted me over to the table where Deanna lay, gesturing for me to stand opposite him as he took up a position on one side of her. I glanced down at my friend, noting the serene expression on her face with relief. It seemed that whatever Kane was doing wasn’t painful at least.
Honestly, I...
We arrived back at the Hermetic Hall in a hurry. Elodie, sensing our approach, appeared before us, ethereal as ever, her brow furrowed in confusion. “You’re returned,” she said slowly. “What can I do for you? I’m afraid if you wish to challenge again, you may not-”
“We need help!” I blurted...
Drexel’s haunting laughter echoed through the tower. “Your faces!” he chortled sadistically. “I can see your little minds running rampant inside your thick skulls, desperately searching for a way out. I’m a GOD, children. You don’t beat gods. You don’t outwit them. You just submit. It’s easier...
The inside of the tower was dark. Not the kind of dark you see when you turn out the lights, or even the type of dark you saw in the Void. This dark wasn’t an absence. It was a presence. It was like a terrible monster looming behind me with fangs bared. A suffocating blanket of blackness...
I rode on the dolphin’s back for an hour. It was wild, dramatic, and if I hadn’t been in Mornax, I’d have suffocated. Finally, I felt the sense of Danger vanish, and decided to come up for air. I reached for the link between me and the dolphin (who I decided to name Croissant for reasons that...
Leaving the Hermetic Hall was an interesting experience. I could feel the eyes of Elodie on me. I hadn’t felt anything on the way in, but now that I knew what to look for, it was clear as day. I glanced back, not having any eyes to meet but feeling something as I stared into the sky, then...
The rest of the trials were in a similar vein. Puzzles, riddles, math, at one point a personality quiz that assigned us a color based on our food preferences, at which point we were forced to play a game of ten person chess against three constructs in order to pass the round. It was harder than...
After getting past the matching game, the next trial was some kind of math challenge. I had zero interest in participating, having never been much good at math, but Wisdom of Solomon passed it easily, so it wasn’t much of an issue, and we moved onto the third room. This room was where things...