Chapter 329: Arc 5, - 23: A New Foe Part I
Another corpse for the night; laid starkly across the floor of the warehouse. The people took a moment to stare and investigate—most went about their business without a second glance.
Languid footsteps echoed throughout till the heels came to a stop. The one figure that actually approached the body had the back of her knuckles under her chin as she cocked her head to the side ever so slightly.
She wore cream-hued satin gloves that went up her arm and a fanciful gown of yellows with deep blues on some frills and sections. Ribbons and bows went down her back and till the end of her gown that was barely a centimetre off from touching the floor.
Her silverish-violet hair drifted down her shoulders while she adorned a large hat with frills, feathers, a fake white flower and lace ribbons.
She turned and looked up with as minimal movement as possible, "Was this one marked?" her drowsy and blasé voice spoke with an accent Jotou would often put on.
As she turned to show her face, her skin was like porcelain. Only a little of her skin displayed from her head down to her collarbone before her gown covered it; but with what little they could see...
From her neck going down, the skin was more akin to cracked porcelain. And each ’crack’ was no crack at all; each of them were lines and lines of runes that split in rivers and continued down her skin.
Most noticeable of all, was that all the runes across her skin glowed and pulsed. They gave off a golden glow then dimmed; the next second, they glowed a deep blue and then dimmed.
The cycle kept repeating each second as her half-closed eyes with thick lashes gazed up for her reply.
Up above and through the furthest doorway now missing a door, sparkling greyish-silver stone had emerged into a slope through the door.
At the end of the slope was a foot they couldn’t quite see. However, they could assume whoever that was caused the scene they just witnessed. The stone sunk into the floor and disappeared completely like collapsing gravel.
"No, he was not bloody marked!" an enraged woman’s voice echoed back down.