Fortuna Verto

21-Escalating Responses

The two girls had finally obtained what they had originally set out to find, still generally uncertain what they had actually accomplished. If nothing else, it was obvious that they had overextended their stay, it might be a prompt time to leave.

Lyun poked her head cautiously out from the secret passage, having carefully ensured that she was actually alone. She might have been compelled to stay in hiding longer, but she was keenly aware that such would have had a really poor impact on Axln. In all consideration, she had endured plenty on her own in this place, she just wanted to meet up with Axln.. and hopefully get out of here. Sure, she only had a really strange book to her discovery, but maybe Axln had discovered far more luck than she had. She really, really hoped at this point that they were in a position to leave. This whole place quite honestly felt surreal, a pure defiance of all that should be, the place was almost a pure embodiment of the mythos. Herself, having actually been to the place such a mythos originated from, it wasn't even the same, that place had a dramatically different distinction in how it existed, like it really did just exist in simplicity, in its own form of sense. This.. this place felt embodied by the thoughts and feelings of the mythos itself, intangible figments somehow made real. She was well versed in the laws of her own world.. and this place felt like it stood in defiance of those very rules.

Lyun quickly left the abandoned library too, the place reminding her of another really horrible deviation of her comforts. Ashen dust didn't even remain at this point, all traces of the accident having disappeared. However, the previous silence and stillness of the halls had been lost, the entire place humming with a faint red glow. She recalled the secret room coming to life in her presence, moving in recognition of her in a spiral that reminded her of an instrument's core. It was far too obvious, she had caused this. Deprived of all familiarity, she just wanted to find Axln so that they could get out of here. However, that had remained something she had failed to achieve even in her earlier moments of the citadel. Even so, since then, she had found herself guided to the book, maybe whatever paranormal guidance she'd been experiencing would be kind enough to deal with this problem too. All she needed was anything that was related to her friend, anything that would bring them closer at last.

"Oh my, this is quite the change of fortune. And here I was worrying things were about to get difficult, only for our paths to cross so suddenly. Even better, it appears you even have the book, give it to me now." A human woman stepped forward from the corner she had passed around, someone suspiciously not in the warden uniform at all. Actually, she was specifically adorned in a very formal coat, looking like quite the established business woman. The expensive looking silver bracelet around her wrist only proved to further establish her sense of wealth and prosperity, such reflective metal being almost priceless in their society. Her disposition made it far too obvious her affiliation, she could only be a part of the foundry, a fairly high individual in such structures considering her visual flair. However, maybe that wasn't such a huge concern, the woman was really alone. This wasn't some martially trained warden, just a high-class business woman. Lyun thus made ample use of her leg enhancements dashing in the absolute opposite direction, only to suddenly fall backwards as she rebounded off of a sudden forcefield that had formed before her, bolts of light streaking through it in a sign of shape and dimension.

"Oh please, don't make this difficult, Lyun, just give me the book." "I'm flattered that someone so high up in society has actually taken the opportunity to learn the name of someone as simple as myself. I can't actually fathom why the foundry might actually even care, they typically show no consideration for anything else." "Oh please, I don't have the time to entreat your ignorance. Book.. now. You know what, fine, if you want more convincing arguments, I can think of a few that would suit you." The woman reached into her coat and pulled out a few small spheres, quickly throwing them to the floor towards Lyun. Both of the spheres surged with stripes of lighting, unfurling from such cores into a surge of a storm that resembled a living creature almost half her height. As the shape of the creature resolved, Lyun backed sharply into the wall in a heightened fear, the apparition lizard's tongue surging with a series of sparks. The thing looked so real in some of the worst ways, and so much more unreal in even worse ways. The thing was clearly a demon of abstract horror. The two creatures advanced upon her as the woman went back to her coat, visibly preparing to use some other selection of instrumental marvels. Lyun could even see she had quite the selection from such a perspective, the woman had an utter arsenal of instruments hidden under that coat.