A moment later, the black-robed figure reined in its greedy gaze. It slowly looked away, turning its attention to the giant's corpse, which had been sliced in two by a sharp blade.
A barely audible sigh drifted away on the wind.
'A failure… It seems the results of the experiment were incomplete…'
'I wonder how things are going over there…'
Accompanied by what sounded like a murmur, the black-robed figure slowly turned, a pattern on its back flickering in and out of sight in the moonlight.
It was a pair of eyes, wide to the extreme, embroidered from dark silver thread.
The eyelids were stretched into an unnatural curve. The upper lashes were as distinct as thorns, while the lower ones became fine, coiling threads.
Deep within the pupils, an inward-swirling spiral was embroidered, resembling the entrance to the Abyss. The end of the spiral stretched out into hair-thin, dark red threads of blood.
