Chương 78: • Setting The Stage

Yes, Spheris admitted to himself. That was frightening. He had even felt his heart skip more than one beat as Linne's words hung heavy in the suffocating air. 

He swallowed, then listened as she continued narrating her nightmare. "Its form seemed to change and it was smiling at me, even though it was furious that I was there. Then slowly..." She began to panic again.

"Slowly... I felt its dark tentacles wrap themselves around me. I couldn't touch it, or see it, all I felt was the air leaving me, I was suffocating under its grasp and it just watched with a sadistic, evil look in its eyes... drawing me closer and closer to its endless corruption. And then... and then..."

"And then?"

Linne's voice croaked, then she sniffed. "I woke up."