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Even after the stars had faded he remained in the dirt. Blood slowly seeping from the cracked bump on the back of his head. Any sensible idiot had made his way to the infirmary. Gotten what little he kept inside the thick skull checked for permanent damage, but nah, that wouldn't have been like him. With a groan and a sigh at the returning stars he again found the footing lost a... While? Probably a good while ago if the sun was to trust.
Everything was a blur, but enough shattered images remained to piece together that the excursion into the spire hadn't transpired as planned. Hero after hero emerging hurt and worried voices, orders, shouts or hissed whispers he had heard through the haze. Or it could all had been a figment of his imagination. An overloaded mind collapsing under the weight and making a fitting story up to patch the holes, keeping what little sanity remained inside.
Inside.
Inside he went, there was a calling, something familiar drawing him into the darkened halls and corridors. As the Voice beckons, he answers. Soft-soled shoes against black stone, and an echoing thump as he fell to the ground again. Exhausted, dizzy. All the steps a memory only his aching body remembered as he laid curled up, gazing into infinity.
"Gods..."
Everything was a blur, but enough shattered images remained to piece together that the excursion into the spire hadn't transpired as planned. Hero after hero emerging hurt and worried voices, orders, shouts or hissed whispers he had heard through the haze. Or it could all had been a figment of his imagination. An overloaded mind collapsing under the weight and making a fitting story up to patch the holes, keeping what little sanity remained inside.
Inside.
Inside he went, there was a calling, something familiar drawing him into the darkened halls and corridors. As the Voice beckons, he answers. Soft-soled shoes against black stone, and an echoing thump as he fell to the ground again. Exhausted, dizzy. All the steps a memory only his aching body remembered as he laid curled up, gazing into infinity.
"Gods..."
