"….. He escaped?"
"Marianne…"
— Choose… Let the fear guide your path and allow my wrath… or use what you have, end them as you want…—
It was suffocating to listen to the bestial roars susurrating brutal tremors in my head. Savage images came to my head, bloody and seemingly natural… There was fear overwhelming me, questions about how this could be, where he could be roaming… and endless suspicions about the little sister I was thinking of giving a chance only a few minutes ago. Time felt frozen in a dizzy haze… and I became more confused by the words of the deity showing delight in his dreadful approach.
I saw how dad tried to support me while I lost balance because of the strain everything provoked in me… and while a whirlpool of thoughts stirred chaotically my senses, the voice I recognised with which I made an agreement unleashed sudden clarity with its intervention.