Aurora Magazine 2019

around the chamber, he noticed more primordial runes carved into the walls – similar to the way the primordial tags lay adorned throughout the ruins. He couldn’t read primordial but seeing the runes all over the place left him chilled and a bit frightened. The whole chamber gave him a bad feeling. Looking back to the sign on the floating step, he noticed something else. On top of that step sat a blackened spherical, seemingly charred object. But before he could ascertain what it might be, movement in his peripheral vison drew his attention. He turned toward the movement and caught sight of a massive white drider with crimson along its extremities. He immediately felt that this creature was not normal and very evil in nature. A deep feminine voice, sinister and coy, spoke to him and his grung friend telepathically. It promised malicious things if they did not leave immediately and if they ever returned to the chamber. Both, quite shaken, turned tail and left the chamber. And after con - cealing the entrance to the ruins, they left to search for answers to endless amount of questions that swirled in their minds and to seek help against the evil that overwhelmed and frightened them back in the chamber. As they traveled, William felt a growing fear start to prick his mind. Just what had he been guarding all these years? And with him away from the ruins, would the desecration come back and allow a darker evil to wander their world causing havoc and devastation in its wake? Would it be all his fault?

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