Ba-DUMP!
Ba-DUMP!!
Ba-DUMP!!!
The colourful metal rose and expanded like living flesh, while adjacent to it, a rainbow-coloured crystal compressed and contracted with the same organic rhythm.
Metal and crystal, two impossible materials, beat together in perfect harmony.
It was a heart.
Although it possessed the shape of a human heart, nothing else about it was human. It lacked flesh, yet moved as though it had muscles beneath its gleaming surface. The colossal metal-crystal heart was nearly the size of a small house, each thunderous beat sending subtle vibrations through the cavern around it.
Its pulse echoed throughout the vast chamber, rebounding from the damp stone walls. Water droplets trembled before falling from the ceiling, scattering ripples across shallow pools as the heartbeat continued without pause.
Standing before it was... Prophetess.
