11-15-2025, 04:46 PM
harrowed
Harrowed is back in the maze, only this time it looks like the Ruins that sit near the southern coast. The sky is a deep, burning red overhead. Freedom so close and so impossible. The lightning wings that occasionally adorn his sides are absent here, trapping him.
Had he even escaped before?
Was that short trip back into the world nothing more than a new gateway?
This feels different. Worse. The stone walls are blurred and they change in his periphery as he walks. The wounds he sustained before are gone, though that makes sense. He had been remade twice already since being forced to appear on the mountain, what was once more?
There is no way to go but forward. The maze behind him collapses as he walks, removing the opportunity to escape backwards. A thick choking darkness exists there and Harrowed can tell without testing it that it is impassable.
Just as he knows there is something waiting for him ahead. Not in an anxious way where he suspects it but in a sure and steady way. This place feels like an extension of himself and that is why it is worse than the previous labyrinth.
These walls are created by him. The cloying darkness at his back is a piece of him just like the blood red sky above.
Just like the creature that appears before him.
Had he even escaped before?
Was that short trip back into the world nothing more than a new gateway?
This feels different. Worse. The stone walls are blurred and they change in his periphery as he walks. The wounds he sustained before are gone, though that makes sense. He had been remade twice already since being forced to appear on the mountain, what was once more?
There is no way to go but forward. The maze behind him collapses as he walks, removing the opportunity to escape backwards. A thick choking darkness exists there and Harrowed can tell without testing it that it is impassable.
Just as he knows there is something waiting for him ahead. Not in an anxious way where he suspects it but in a sure and steady way. This place feels like an extension of himself and that is why it is worse than the previous labyrinth.
These walls are created by him. The cloying darkness at his back is a piece of him just like the blood red sky above.
Just like the creature that appears before him.