Chapter 40: Allegro
The moment Kivas saw the monolith crush Beilan, her thoughts shattered and realigned into a rapid spiral of clarity.
Every sound became a bell, clanging through the cathedral of her skull. It echoed until the ringing became rhythm. Clanging, splattering, and smearing everything in every direction of her senses.
Her vision slowed. Her breath shortened. The air thickened, and so did her cold sweats.
Kivas was on the ground.
"Haa..."
Samael was on top of her, hair disheveled, eyes focused on a space that had changed just seconds ago. They weren’t on the same island anymore.
Samael’s arm pulsed with residual light from her teleportation. The surroundings shimmered, the curvature of reality bent just enough to recognize that the platform they now stood on hadn’t been where they began.
A moment later, a second monolith crashed down on one of the floating islands nearby—then another, then two, then ten more! Each slammed into different islands across the floating sea of flesh and stone, shattering the ground with each impact. Trees shaped like beating brains were crushed. Flesh-ropes convulsed and tore.
And a second after their landing, all of the Monoliths began secreting a thick fog to their surrounding.
Kivas tried to push herself up, disoriented.
Samael turned to her, voice direct.