Chapter 25: Lunar
Noctis’ back thumped against the hard rock as he coiled on the floor in pain. However, thinking about the hounds just behind forced himself up to close the opening somehow.
Though when he sat up all he saw was him being in a closed room with walls on all four sides and no ceiling, letting the bright moonlight through illuminating the closed cavernous room.
’Shit’
Noctis cursed but sprawled once again on the floor in order to catch his breath.
Looking up to the sky, the moon looked especially big and bright today. Maybe it was a supermoon kind of situation, he thought to himself as he didn’t remember any of the 4 moons being so bright and big.
Indeed this world seemed to have four moons, by his observation of their patterns and movements, which peculiarly never aligned perfectly to have even two moons in his sky at the same time, much less all four.
This one was the most frequent moon in the sky, from where he was at least, almost the same size as his previous world’s but without all the scars. Indeed it was quite flawless, devoid of any marks.
It looked quite surreal the first time he looked at it. Another similar size moon was also quite smoother comparatively but it had notable cracks on its surface suggesting its icy surface.
This one however was like a young child that hadn’t been through the eons of skirmishes others celestial bodies had to go through.
’Yeah probably not. No way this moon just formed out of nowhere. Quite beautiful even if a bit eerie nevertheless.’
Shifting his gaze to the white owl standing on top of one other side walls shaking itself vigorously to shake off the water in its feathers.