[KQ] What Lies Beneath

D e i m o s

Send a heartbeat to the void that cries through you
Relive the pictures that have come to pass

Between the code, the door, Jyoti’s warnings, and everything else unfurling before him – he took a few moments to adjust to the scene. His steps were slow, meticulous, senses drawn to the circular room and the measures of everything around them. The depths of his intrigue spun directly to the bookshelves, potentially lined with ancient, primordial secrets and furtive means, but then his Machiavellian mind harked back to moments spent along the Spire. Curiosity was a grand, tempting thing, but he had no intentions of diving straight into its threshold. He nodded towards Jigano as the man shifted and went to explore the range of the moss, watching as Kiada did the same towards one of the shelves. Then he lifted his chin, gazing up at the ceiling, the poignant glow of stars residing on its denizen. Had they been beneath the earth for that long? Or was it something else – more pictures, more clues (how would they even get up there – unless some primeval Attuned had spun their way into its orchestrations?) – or the tangible sky? Could something else be there? So he shifted, leaving Zuriel to stake her claim along the floor, eagle feathers and long, extended wings carrying him towards ceiling, investigative, examining. -- Deimos shifts back into an eagle to glance over the ceiling. For now we stand alone, the world is lost and blown And we are flesh and blood disintegrate with no more to hate