With the hole on its face changing shapes, the being assumed the expression of a smile one that was even more disheartening to Paul who took a glimpse at it.
He averted his eyes as quickly as he took a glimpse, he rubbed the band on his hand slowly.
"Hey…hey hey! What is this?!
I want to run but my leg won't nove, what is this feeling?!" Karius yelled internally.
"Surely you children know how to speak." The being said menacingly as it moved its head around them from left to right.
It's voice was all too familiar to them, it was the same one that had rejected Heimer earlier.
"It would seem neither of you here have traces of it- no, no there's little, but hardly enough to be considered theperpetrator" It began strolling around them.
"My body can feel it — this thing is powerful, nothing else compares to the feeling its presence brings.
And it said Vegro…isn't that the little beast she held in the memories, if she said kill then was it truly the sprout?
Then Heimer would be the one it's looking for, should it be considered lucky that the door rejected him." Leo pondered admist the weird situation.
"Hmm… what race is it this time…
humans I suppose, again?…hmm" It muttered whilst scanning everyone's faces.
Leo opened his eyes to the sensation he felt on his face, he tried to keep calm as he looked at it; her palms and long sharp fingers on his face while she bent her body overhead his.
Her face was upside down while the hole on its face frowned.
"Those fingers, they're the same that gave me this mark on my face…then truly, she is the woman from the memory." Leo's suspicions were confirmed.
A little awkward smirk grew on his face, the feeling when his strongest curiosities got answered or pieced together, this was one of those times.
Even while staring at her unsettling appearance his smirk remained.
"You, you're not supposed to be here, no halo nor thorn…" Dark aether from her hands seeped into his body forcefully.
Leo felt like something pierced through his very being at her infusion, like a thousand needles pricking through him.
[Keuk!] "It isn't as bad as when I inhale pure aether, it doesn't make it pleasant…but it's bearable!" He grit his teeth and took it all in.
His wound bled even more.
"Yourvessel holds aether of the flame path, how peculiar, then how come…is it the work of a gift, how does
You live long enough and you start seeing a lot of things." uttered the being as she gently removed her palm from his face.
Leo had only let curiosity overcome him so many times, this was another situation he could let play out, her focus was nearly gone from him yet-
Karius's eyes widened.
"(Whatever you're thinking about trying don't do it Leo.
Hey Leo!)" Karius voice was transmitted directly into Leo's mind.
"Karius?" Leo rolled his eyes to peek at Karius whose eyes were opposing whatever he was about to do.
{A being I can't understand, in a place I can't understand as well.
So many questions over the past months and this woman seems to know a lot, who else will answer my questions.
I just can't pass up this opportunity to get fed answers.}
Leo smirk became a smile and his pupils looked like they were twirling, ignoring the pain and the warning Leo had his decision made.
He was neither the bravest nor strongest amongst them and he was usually level headed, that made his newly found boldness Karius and Zefroth.
"Who are you?" asked Leo without as much a crack in his voice.
The being that was behind Fiona turned to look at Leo, the hole on her face shrank to a dot.
She tilted her head showing confusion and vanished in a mere instant she was within the centre of the circle.
There was no path or anything, she had without doubt displaced from one point in space to another.
"So you all could speak and you left me in silence…have you no fear?" Her figure gradually shrank down to about to metres but contrary to that, her black aura surged suffocating all who stood there.
At that point the aura had become so potent that it was becoming physical; it would push them back but their feets were planted to the ground.
" The tyrant, the mad queen, crazed queen, the illusionist, the white that seeks red, I go by many names.
I am the 13th commandment, I thought the dreams of the last room would have made known my status, yet I'm greeted with this level of disrespect.
Thousands of worlds over eons and yet it's from beings as feeble as yo-….you." She said hysterically then her nails got sharper.
"You…do you truly not have a shred of fear." The hole on her face changed to a question mark and her imposing aura dissipated.
"No…it's certainly there, then why is it hidden so deep…" The lady thought.
"Karius can you hear me?" Leo thought as he looked at her creepy face.
Karius was alerted. "( Huh, yes I can, I thought you said I was the irrational one why are you doing something so stupi-…)"
"(Please can you act as a median between I and Caesar…or maybe Rud if you can't get to him.)" Leo's facial expression didn't change.
He took a look at the person to his right that held his hand, she had a tense look with perspiration on her forehead, this scared Leo.
"If Fiona is like this, then is this is not something we can handle, or does passing helping me reduce the effects on her?
Either way If it wasn't for her help I would have been crushed under its pressure" Leo thought as he shifted his gaze to the lady.
"(I've gotten him, we can now begin)" Karius transmitted.
"('where is your bravery coming from' )" Karius quoted Caesar.
"( It's a farce or bluff call it what you will, I can't even open my lips right now.
I just need you to help me do something )" Leo thought as his eyes remained unflinching.
"( 'What is it?' )" Karius repeated the words of Caesar.
The lady joined all five of her finger together and pivoted her elbows backwards.
"( I need you to repeat the words I'm going to say to you out loud)" Leo tightened his grip on Paul and Fiona's arms.
"( 'What?! Wh-' )" Caesar responded.
"( Please you're the only one I can trust on this, we're running out of time, just repeat the words
'....' )" Leo pressed on.
"( 'And why do you feel like this will work' )" Caesar responded.
"Karius don't tell him this one…it's a hunch." Leo thought.
Karius was perplexed.
The lady now drove her nails at Leo's head at an incredible speed.
[Drip]