Hushfall

July 17, 2237, Qualen...

A vast open sandy ground quiet as the wind blows the sand among a cave. Deep in it the catacombs 12 feet wide walkway, and 12 feet high, a moist floor but dry the walls have been for decades leaving dust and foot long spiders crawling in the dim light tunnels. "Azmos, get the Omen already," Spoke a woman. "I don't know which one it is Khalia," Azmos said. "Hurry up and choose already," she said. A display of totems along the rocky carved and mounted shelf holding 4 totems. One on the left having skull of a deer with shape of molded crest on it's head, the one next to it on the left another resembling jaws of unknown 7 mandible jaw hinges black as the skin black of the spikes being gray didn't match what their searching for. The one on the end of right had snake-like jaws open sharp teeth size of 12 inches side by side with top of skull flat the one next to it looked resembling a circular set of rows of teeth mold of brown on it. Not knowing what or which to grab Khalia makes his choice and grabs the first one on the left arrows shoot out from the sides they run out of the room to the halls of the catacombs.

"Khalia, you grabbed the wrong one," Azmos said. "You wouldn't hurry," she said. Running through the halls they ran for their life the spiders running from walls starting to ooze a sticky intoxicating fluids of which were liquified webs of the spiders. Dark no longer any light something just outside is lurking. Azmos and Khalia had come to a stop.

Accidentally in the dark their backs touched as the spiders surround them. "I told you I hate spiders Khalia," Azmos remarked. "Azmos shut up it's right outside above us," she responded. A being slithered in the ground. It's 100 feet long in the ground, it's body had burrows through making a low grumble going lower to nothing. Khalia stays still, but hesitant and panicking Azmos wants to move and tries to do so. Khalia stops him from doing so putting her hand on his chest. "I told you I didn't want to come here," said Azmos. "You want to get off with everyone don't you?" Khalia had asked Azmos. Azmos stayed quiet and looked at her. "Yeah, that's what I thought," she went. "Is it gone, can we move now," Azmos asked. "Yeah let's go," Khalia said.

They started to walk out when they had reached a lobby of halls starting to break they went into the first left one than out of the 5 in front of them.

"Stay close," Khalia said. Azmos walked step by step next to Khalia. Quietly stepping through the tunnels, they walked in silence having to either step on the corpses of starved to death spiders or cannibalized ones. "This is disgusting," Azmos spoke. "Yeah, I'd hate to be one of these things," Khalia said. Her brown braided hair was brushed against her by the wind and fell in front of her dark toned skin of her face. She with her hand pulled it out of the way.

They saw light they are just moments away from the outside world out of the catacombs. She with her youth smile she looked back to see a missing Azmos. "Azmos, where'd you go? I said to stay close," she spoke out trying to find him. She looked back at the exit seeing it as it looked like teeth thanks to stalactites and stalagmites at the front. "Damn... AZMOS! AZMOS! AZMOS WHERE ARE YOU?!" She went out shouting looking back in the catacombs for him trying to find his young face brown eyes pale skin Edgar haircut of black hair. "Azmos, this isn't funny come on we have to go we got the Omen," She went getting impatient. Soon enough she is annoyed of this and decides to head back but startling the spiders among the wall with her presence they crawled off not just a wall but human skeletons. She seeing this had walked close to what the spiders were unveiling. "Oh my gosh," she exclaimed. She looked at the row of 7 skeletons and she saw the seventh not of just bone but skin fresh and barely alive breathing faintly. She saw him. She saw Azmos. "Azmos?" She went questioning him poking him in effect a spider came out of his ribcage from his chest. As the spider came out was Azmos's last breathe. His eyes stared into hers open. She looked back in fear. A bad smell indescribable had ran through her sende of smell in her nose and she reacted closing her eyes looking away covering her nose whiffing it away. "Disgusting, I'm sorry Azmos." She said to him. Mundrids, moth-like creatures, flew out in their winged form out of Azmos's mouth jump scaring her and were biting on her skin piercing with needle small sized pecks. She ran out, this brought something more as she ran out of the catacombs she saw the dirt of the desert surging towards her. Panicking she quickly shooed the moths or likely they hated light and flew back in the catacombs into darkness as she ran among rocky surface just above the catacombs. breathing heavily trembling she reached the top. Khalia looked around, all around to see if it was still out there.

She would sit down criss cross and close her eyes hands out on the surface her spirit leaving the body entering the astral plane or calling to her and others "The Remnea" she entered she could see spirits of her surroundings seeing the worm's presence not far. In the Remnea she had walked over the natural augmented reality of the world shortcutting to the one who sent her out. "We- I got it, Azmos... he's gone," Khalia spoke.  "Great, now bring us the Omen and you shall get your reward," spoke this man. "Yes Okka I will," Khalia spoke. After  speaking to Okka, Khalia would leave the Remnea and go back to her body. She stepped on ground and one step to 2 turned to 4. She continued to walk but at 20 steps off and away one of them from under had come back she ran back to the rock in hopes she'd make it. She plead for her life slipping and hitting her head on the rock; getting up not enough time the worm had come out seven mandible jaws seeing 3 rows of teeth spinning like a cogwheel. First jaw clockwise, the 2nd anti clockwise, and third clockwise again. Panicking shouting a tongue with its jaws opening snatched on her leg. "AAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!" She went in pain as she felt the teeth sink into her. She would be engulfed every time against and grinded in the teeth the teeth would enter opposite directions. Like being shredded the tongue of the worm would consume and send her to the stomach. The worm entering into the ground spat out the fake Omen.

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