MSG – Volume 2 – Chapter 74: Maya's Memories of her death day [2]
Solon's physical eyes actually shut tight as he beheld these scenes.
They indeed had a certain 'weight' to them. Something that his body reacted to even when his consciousness was not in it.
The cries, the pleas, the whimpers… everything.
The woman would have never come to know of these things had she not given a certain magic artifact to him as a present designed as a necklace for their tenth anniversary as a wedded couple.
She had given it to him with the intention of keeping him safe – evident by the functions she had specifically picked out for the artificer to imbue into it when she commissioned it.
The first function was for it to deploy a one-time shield that would break after receiving a single all-out attack from one of a half a rank (10 levels) above the wearer.