It took Thoren a couple of seconds to recover from the shock.
The sight before him had been completely beyond his expectations, and for those brief moments, his mind had struggled to connect the Cressida he knew with the horrifying entity standing before him.
The thought that the mysterious Cressida was no more, and that he had left her behind on the Bleeding Desert, was nothing but his naive thinking.
He had believed that after leaving the Bleeding Desert, whatever connection Cressida had with him would eventually disappear.
But now, standing inside the core of the underground research facility, Thoren finally understood how wrong that assumption had been.
Cressida was still here.
She never left in the first place
Or perhaps the thing behind Cressida was the real her.
Either way, the existence before him was far more powerful and mysterious than he could ever have imagined.
Thoren stared at Cressida's condescending gaze and took a deep breath.
