Chapter 61: Experimentation & Inter-Galactic Travel
On the surface, a seemingly ordinary object. And yet…
“My heart feels uneasy just looking at it…”
“You said one of these was used against you in your last life, right? Remember anything about them?”
“The memories of that time are unclear, yet I recall a feeling of raw dread and pure terror,” Zaessythra answered. “I’ve been in thousands of battles, yet the instinctive feeling of fear it provokes deep within is unnatural.”
“Information: unit experiencing unknown programming anomalies within radius of object,” W78 said.
“Might be fear and unease like the rest of us,” Orodan remarked. “You’ve all gotten to know me, I care not for fear. Yet for this shard to make my hairs stand on end… there must be something more to it.”
The Shard.
It didn’t exactly look too nefarious. It wasn’t some writhing artefact of doom which could drive people mad at the sight of it, but it did instill an uncontrollable sense of dread all the same. It was bright pink, with a subtle glow which emanated in the dark.
Most oddly, in rare moments, it would sometimes twitch or shiver, or rather, the pink ‘flesh’ of it would wriggle about like a liquid encased in an invisible container. Neither Orodan’s Vision Of Purity, Space Mastery or Dimensionalism allowed him to detect any boundaries for this supposed container. It looked like a strange pink crystal shard, except when it wriggled about, which was when the pink filling of the shard would move about.