Chapter 242: Nightmares, Negative Dimension (1/2)

As I got closer to the Keep, I could see lights in some of the apartment building's windows. I decided to go take a look to see who was doing what.

It was just a little bit of espionage on my lovers to see if they were doing anything cute or to try and catch them acting out of character. I could see that there were many women around a large fire behind the stone Keep, but no one had noticed me yet.

”What are you doing? I thought we were going to the back where the fire is?” Beeno asked, and I grinned.

”I want to do a bit of spying first. It's tough to catch you, women, out of your elements, and I am always curious about what makes each of you tick,” I explained as I floated to the highest window on the east side of the building.

This would be Mex's room, so this wasn't really spying, just checking up on him.

”You really care about that stuff? While I disapprove of your methods, it's nice to know that you do make an effort,” Beeno said as I got closer to Mex's window, but then started to frown, and she asked, ”What's wrong?”

Mex was not in the room, nor was this Mex's room from when I glanced in it previously. That alone could be brushed off as one of Kimera's Spacial Magic abilities, but there was a female sitting on the far side of the room.

She was in a rocking chair, and she was knitting something, but her head was down. I couldn't get a look at her face because her hair was covering it, so I decided to try knocking on the window.

I stopped right before my hand touched the glass pane, my wrist being grabbed by Beeno, but simultaneously, terror gripped me. It was an icy hand that gripped me by the spine, and I was frozen stiff.

[Get back from that window! I was watching the ERTCG, and that is a creature from your nightmares!]

Too late, the woman looked up at me, but she had no eyes, only mouths in place of them. They were filled with sharp-looking teeth, but I could tell that the creature was staring at me.

Then the mouths started to stretch out of her face impossibly, twisting and weaving closer to me. Each mouth opened and closed, and I knew they were coming to devour me, and I was powerless to stop them.

”Zack!” A distant voice cried out, but I was powerless under the gaze of the terror that was coming to devour me.

Then I was falling, and everything went black, and I opened my eyes with a massive groan as I gained control of my body once again. I could feel cracked and broken ribs, but I couldn't feel my legs, but that was slowly coming back.

”Are you okay?!” Asked a tall redhead bent over me that looked familiar, but my head was still a mess, and the pain wasn't helping.

[Just relax, and let your body heal. None of the damage caused by the five-story drop is serious other than the spinal cord, but it is healing. Give it about five minutes before getting up, or you will do more damage.]