[ The creature charges forward without fear and seemingly without intelligence, because there’s not even much of an attempt to dodge Hayame’s strong arrow. It bears forward and accepts the arrow, and half the skull shatters with the force, and it fully reveals what’s inside. There’s a cluster of crystals, and the arrow breaks into them and shatters one.
Immediately, a sense of dread will push through them, and their Shards react to it almost physically. Even in the split-second of a moment that would be too fast to truly perceive, their Shards simply know that what shattered was another Shard. A soul, not dead, but destroyed.
It screams.
It’s like the creature explodes. The glowing mass remains, and it leaps, if it could be called that. It’s more that the roots that make it up grow and push, launching itself forward and directly into Hayame and Liem just as they breach the forest and into the clearing. It lands heavily on them both, and the roots feel alive, twisting like frenzied, rough-skinned eels as it seems to be having trouble keeping itself whole.
The roots constrict and stab out in equal measure desperately, but it’s not able to keep its grip and rolls off Hayame’s back (and just off poor Liem in general) to hit the grass hard. It rolls, reaching out hand like limbs as it claws at the grass, but roots don’t appear here, it seems. So instead, more of those limbs start to twist and harden into insect-like limbs as it adjusts. On its new back is where the pit containing the skull lays, still glowing like fire, but dimmer now. In the cluster, there’s one Shard that stands out as larger than the rest.
And faintly, almost so soft that it could be missed in the chaos of the moment, that same accented voice speaks calmly in their mind. ]
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Immediately, a sense of dread will push through them, and their Shards react to it almost physically. Even in the split-second of a moment that would be too fast to truly perceive, their Shards simply know that what shattered was another Shard. A soul, not dead, but destroyed.
It screams.
It’s like the creature explodes. The glowing mass remains, and it leaps, if it could be called that. It’s more that the roots that make it up grow and push, launching itself forward and directly into Hayame and Liem just as they breach the forest and into the clearing. It lands heavily on them both, and the roots feel alive, twisting like frenzied, rough-skinned eels as it seems to be having trouble keeping itself whole.
The roots constrict and stab out in equal measure desperately, but it’s not able to keep its grip and rolls off Hayame’s back (and just off poor Liem in general) to hit the grass hard. It rolls, reaching out hand like limbs as it claws at the grass, but roots don’t appear here, it seems. So instead, more of those limbs start to twist and harden into insect-like limbs as it adjusts. On its new back is where the pit containing the skull lays, still glowing like fire, but dimmer now. In the cluster, there’s one Shard that stands out as larger than the rest.
And faintly, almost so soft that it could be missed in the chaos of the moment, that same accented voice speaks calmly in their mind. ]
Still too fragile.