[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

His enchantments, Kiada’s assault, and Amalia’s attempts appeared to convey nothing. At the very least, Jigano’s serpentine endeavors kept it shut, with a lengthy enough accord for Amalia to place it along the bookshelf, where it belonged. Then there appeared to be differing opinions on what to do next – Kiada’s layered towards the tunnel from where they’d first arrived, already disassembled, but something familiar, and Amalia, who wanted to utilize the portal book. His eyes narrowed briefly in speculation, in thought, forcing a sigh to be choked down, smothered, along the depths of his lungs. He didn’t want anyone else needlessly hurt, but they also had to maintain options and alternatives. Jaws clenched, gaze swinging back and forth, the unknown treading treacherous lines over their insinuations. “We could try both? If you want to bring the book while we go back,” however, the misgivings were laid out. “If the books are meant to stay here though, it may attempt to do the same as the other,” his stare riveting back to where the shark tome laid, returned to its shelf. Then he turned, intending to thread his way back from whence they’d come, hoping to find some rocks they could shift, another system he could create, to buy them time to slide out and back into safety. -- Deimos tries to go back the way they came and find a means out. For now we stand alone, the world is lost and blown And we are flesh and blood disintegrate with no more to hate