They kept glancing at the explorer who floated calmly beyond the battle with no authority around him whatsoever, doing, as far as any sense could detect, absolutely nothing.
And when they looked at him in their fury, they actually saw him wiping sweat from his forehead, dabbing at it with his sleeve like an academic in an overheated lecture hall, and they wanted to curse him! What was he so tired from when he was just floating there?!
…!
Their distraction cost them everything.
THE Creature's Pantheon closed. The red sea folded upward in continental walls as the Burden descended one final time upon both leaking, doubting, hemorrhaging existences, and THE MAW opened wider than it had ever opened, wide as a horizon, and THE Creature drove both Gilded True Lifeforms into it with his own bleeding hands!
He devoured them!
