Eldric smiled as he stared at Liam, seemingly unaffected by the hatred burning in the young man's eyes. The underground chamber remained unnaturally quiet except for the faint movement of the tentacles wrapped around Liam's body and the occasional drop of water falling somewhere in the darkness.
Eldric slowly folded his hands behind his back and took a few steps away before turning around again. "If you really want to know why I killed them all," he said calmly, "then we need to go back in the past. We need to go back fifteen years, to the day everything went wrong."
