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Down below, they will take care of you! The darkness will come to engulf you.
Those final words rang through his skull, a haunting refrain. Those words, that voice,
that betrayal. His fall was nothing—the rocks that shattered his body, the jagged stones that tore shreds from his cloak—none of it mattered. Julius had no care for the way his bones twisted, for the agony seeping into his flesh. But his broken pride—that was a wound far deeper, one that fanned the flames of a fury beyond reckoning.
“TITUS!” he roared, voice raw with wrath. A name. A curse. A promise.
The treacherous cliffs of High Blizzard had yielded to those of Fate’s Summit, but to Julius, there was no difference. The world remained cruel and indifferent, the sheer, merciless slopes flinging him from one stone to the next, each impact more brutal than the last, until his battered form was finally cast onto a bed of wild chamomile.
“AARGH!” he groaned, a ragged specter of resilience. Yet he did not yield. Pain was an irrelevance, drowned beneath the tidal wave of his rage.
Down below, they will take care of you! The darkness will come to engulf you.
A darkness made flesh—a woman, her face a void of night. He had been deceived once, high above; he would not be devoured below.
Bared fangs, tail raised high, sinews drawn taut like a bowstring, a growl reverberating from the depths of his being—he was ready to strike.
Threats were but whispers in the wind until they took shape, until they revealed themselves in the cold light of reality. Julius had learned that bitter lesson. And this woman, unassuming as she seemed, was no mere shadow. She was the abyss itself.
The darkness he had been promised.
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