10 Javilg (1/2)

It was the same body which Carla saw inside the void. How did he get here?

Carla blushed at the thought of what happened inside the void. But after taking a moment to think about it, she realised that there was never any physical contact between them.

To think that her first kiss was almost stolen away from her.

What am I thinking, I was the one that kept moving closer...

Remembering the feeling of being drawn to the young man, Carla came to a conclusion which made her mind go blank.

That familiar connection.

That link, that is the same as...

That is Boros?!

Carla screamed but quickly placed her hands on her mouth. It looked as if her hands held onto more composure than she herself did.

”How could something like this happen? Just a second ago he was still just a little snake.”

Carla had no way to explain the situation that unfolded within this dungeon.

Taking into account everything that happened, Carla was almost certain that it had something to do with that strange darkness where she felt like she spent a hundred years.

Carla focused more on what she was seeing on the screen. Upon seeing his chest move, making it clear that he was alive and breathing, Carla nodded, Feeling relieved.

Seeing him not in pain, and simply unconscious made Carla think about something.

She wasn't sure if he was out of danger but seeing his tranquil expression made Carla relax on her chair, looking like she was melting in it.

How did this happen?

---

A couple of moments earlier.

Roughly around the time, Carla jumped over the desk.

'MY HEAD!'

Boros convulsed his body, feeling a torturing pain radiate from his head to the rest of his body.

Being unable to control his body at will, Boros did his best to try and direct himself out of the hidey-hole's entrance.

But wanting to do something and being able to do it were two very different things. It took barely a moment for his consciousness to finally fail him.

Just as Boros stopped feeling his body, he found himself in a dark space. It was impossible to differentiate between the up and down, left or right.

He was in what seemed like endless darkness. He had no feeling of his body, leaving him to conclude this must be some kind of 'out-of-body experience'.

Does that mean that I died?

Nooooo!

How could this happen? All I did was draw that stupid symbol!

I don't want to accept this!

Boros raged on about the chances he missed and the things he wanted to achieve. The things that he didn't get to achieve in either of his lives.

He actually sounded more like a kid having a tantrum. Were someone to see this they would have laughed at how juvenile he was acting.

What Boros didn't know was that he wasn't alone here.

~hehehehehehehe~

Who is there!

Boros shouted in his mind, surprised.

If this is an afterlife, I don't think that I like what this creepy cackle is supposed to represent.

Before Boros even finished with his thought, a whisper, which sounded like a creature of horror, yet like many voices quietly talking at the same time started whispering not far from where Boros was.

~to think that I put in so much work to only now get you here. Don't disappoint meq~

Boros felt like the voice was coming from just a step behind him, giving him a creepy feeling which would raise goosebumps all over his human body.

'Who... What are you?'

~hahaha, shouldn't your main concern be where you are? ~

The phenomena that took place while the voice was speaking was something that made Boros uncertain if he was talking to a single entity or many of them. The direction of the voices shifted while the intensity of all the different voices changed as if some of the voices were growing louder while sometimes they were barely heard.

~What I am is a bit complicated for your mortal mind to fully comprehend, what I am to you and what you are to me are better questions.~

Boros listened to the insanity-inducing voices without cutting in. He didn't want to find out what would happen if he made the already scary-sounding voices become scarier.

~to put it in simple terms, I am an Old One. But unlike some of my relatives, my name is yet to know to the mortal minds.~

After finishing the sentence the voice fell silent.

Seeing that the voice was silent for a few seconds, Boros took it as an invitation for him to ask more questions.

'what do you mean by opportunity, and what is this place?'

~it is just how it sounds, I have something that you could do for me and at the same time, I have something that I can do for you. And as for what this place is, it is also a bit complicated for a mortal mind to fully comprehend. To put it simply, this is what you would call a void.~

Hearing another stop, Boros continued his questioning.

'Could you be any more specific? What do you mean by the void? And when you say one of the Old Ones, you mean like... ?'

Before Boros even finished his question, the voice interrupted him.

~Indeed, like Cthulhu. ~