For an unknown amount of time, Evelyn and Gistella knelt in the shallow water.
Just earlier, the pounding sound of battle—screams of pain, battle cries, and the sound of mortal bodies being broken and splattered assaulted their ears from all sides. Now, in this vast expanse decorated by nothing other than an endless shallow water, there was only a deafening silence.
It was so silent that they could hear their own heartbeats inside their chests.
So silent that they could hear the noises in their minds clearly.
Every single gore and pain that happened in the battle was played on repeat inside their minds.
Never once in their lives did they feel the suffocating feeling of helplessness as strongly as in that moment.
Against beings from the higher planes, they couldn't do anything.
