the both of them beat a retreat towards the door as the creature begins to swarm around them faster and faster, bubbling forward, frothing. heads, indiscernible now (or maybe more uncomfortably familiar than you'd like - faces on board the ship, faces of the dearly departed) trying to just skull bash into you both as you manage to just barely squeeze through. charles' sword slashes through some of these successfully, sending them rolling and oozing back to their source, the massive thing chasing you just to be repurposed, reabsorbed, and reassimilated.
charles and shoma can feel it, the heat of this monstrosity, like a fever rising and rising as it moans in a sickening chorus, chasing them. these stairs are steep, precarious, and they are slick with blood. if you want to yakkety sax fall down them? you totally could.
it will chase, it will pursue, it will coil... there is nowhere to run but down. ]
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the both of them beat a retreat towards the door as the creature begins to swarm around them faster and faster, bubbling forward, frothing. heads, indiscernible now (or maybe more uncomfortably familiar than you'd like - faces on board the ship, faces of the dearly departed) trying to just skull bash into you both as you manage to just barely squeeze through. charles' sword slashes through some of these successfully, sending them rolling and oozing back to their source, the massive thing chasing you just to be repurposed, reabsorbed, and reassimilated.
charles and shoma can feel it, the heat of this monstrosity, like a fever rising and rising as it moans in a sickening chorus, chasing them. these stairs are steep, precarious, and they are slick with blood. if you want to yakkety sax fall down them? you totally could.
it will chase, it will pursue, it will coil... there is nowhere to run but down. ]