Chapter 199: Warmth (1/2)

Chapter 199: Warirl

The Chrysalis nodded with vigor "Yes I built using the blocks I had, all the blocks that were a part of this thing you call a 'soul' So it won't be new to you, but it's better than this place, I promise"

She came by Aldrich's side and looked up at his hand He was too tall for her to take a hold of his hand, so she settled with just grasping at the fabric of his pant leg Like a lost child "Okay, let's go," said Aldrich As soon as those words escaped his lips, so happened in the jail cell

In the thick darkness of the cell where the light of the eye above did not reach, movement ickered Aldrich tensed up in iy, but found that he could not

It was not that anything prevented hiy expel fro into so a spell

The darkness ickered again, stronger this time, and Aldrich realized that there was not move

Like ashadow, the darkness crawled into the eerie yellow spotlight in the fornized They were the same type of shadowy tendrils that the Chrysalis used when it was dors into its territory "Scary" The Chrysalis hid behind Aldrich's legs, peeping out between to see as going on "You don't control the shadows?" said Aldrich

The Chrysalis rapidly shook her head "No They were already here" "But didn't you call on the into your territory, it see them" "They didn't have a home to be in before ot power In the end, though, I think they only listen to you," said the Chrysalis "Hm" Aldrich watched as the tendrils hovered over the Butcher's body like hungry vultures "No! Get away!" the Butcher yelled, causing the Chrysalis to wince and put her ngers in her ears

The tendrils forenerating esh around the Butcher's ar stu sure the Butcher had a pain

When the saw tendrils were done severing the regenerated stu tendrils took the bloody, tornit into the Butcher's mouth

When the Butcher closed hishim his own body,into the Butcher's face, digging under his esh and bulging visibly under his skin

They acted like strings on a puppet, forciblythe Butcher open his mouth They tendrils even forced his eyes open to

The Butcher gurgled in his own blood of esh as the tendrils crammed in his own limbs into his jaith violent force

Aldrich tried to will the tendrils to do so whether he had true control over the their cycle of innite torture against the Butcher and his regenerating body "Can we go now?" The Chrysalis tugged at Aldrich's pant leg again "Yes," said Aldrich As he stared at the Butcher's suering, he felt satisfaction

This was the ony It was only right that he suer the same himself

It hat he had intended in the rst place, too The biggest reason why he had even captured the Butcher alive If these tendrils had not done this, then he would havejust as painful, if not worse

But Aldrich did not feel it was right to be reveling in this torture with the

Chrysalis right beside hi about her childlike appearance and de this with her by his side "Let's go" Aldrich turned to leave, and the Chrysalis followed close behind him As he left, the bars of the cell door closed on their own He took one last look at the cell, not at the Butcher, but at the entire cell itself

From farther away, even the Butcher's sizable bulk seemed tiny inside the cell

Granted, he was just a torso and head, but even had he been whole, the cell would have been far too big for hi that this cell was er But what - Aldrich had no idea "This way" Outside the cell, the Chrysalis gainedto follow

Overall, the Chrysalis was rather emotionless in her expressions and tone of voice, but Aldrich could nd hints of emotion beneath it all It was the inverse of Rella who had lost how to have proper hu isolation

The Chrysalis, Aldrich sensed, was learning how to express herself, learning how to be comfortable with her newly developed soul "Up, up, up" The Chrysalis started to walk on what see step by step like she was scaling an invisible staircase Aldrich followed

They were still in the ceiling-less hallway of darkness leading from the torture room into the cell, but at a certain point, the Chrysalis stopped going up "Here," she said as she put a sainst an invisible surface A circular outline of light, big enough to easily t

Aldrich through, drew around her hand The darkness within the circle then slid over like a sliding door, revealing bright light

Froht, warmth emanated outwards "Much better" The Chrysalis stopped shi+vering as she pranced her way up and through the circle of light