They had to leave!
Noah's intuition roared the instant the words left her, and the woman before him wasted nothing. Her hair whipped around her as she turned and called out across the obsidian seas.
"Girls!" Ryaenara said, sharp now, all the play gone. "We wrap up. Right now. Come on!"
She snapped her fingers, and obsidian light flashed across THE Effluvium Sanctum. The Dora Shath'yar vanished in the same breath, and the strange two-Pantheon Gu that Eir had been battling vanished with them, plucked out of the fight mid-clash. And then Noah felt his own body caught, pulled by that same obsidian light, and he could have resisted it, could have planted himself and refused to be moved by a being he had known for the length of a single conversation.
He went along with it instead. Because he was curious!
He was so very curious!
HUUM!
In an instant, THE Effluvium Sanctum stood empty. The silver seas rolled on beneath a lethal sky with no one left to test themselves against it.
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