Thrown Into Madness - Lord of the Mysteries

Homesick

"We need more Burn Curses, we're running out of charms. Should we just set the corpses of fire normally?"

Degster asked, looking at the already charred bodies.

After he didn't receive a response, his eyes moved to the other five before him.

His eyebrows rose.

"Why are you all spacing out? We don't have time to spare."

Ellone flinched, her eyes moving away from Natia and to Degster.

She's been in a daze for a while.

She rubbed her hands together, smearing the blood.

"I think we can do that, most of the Beyonder characteristics already appeared. Have they been collected yet?"

As Ellone snapped back to reality, her stomach swirled.

The smell of blood was nauseating.

Degster, seeing this, had to hold back a sigh.

He didn't blame her even though he already answered that same question thrice.

"Yes, they've been taken and properly covered. Let's-"

He froze before exhaling deeply.

Ellone's pupils were already dilated, already staring to who-knows where.

"You know what, go back and get some sleep. Dager, you too. Bring Airina with you. Let her wash up before taking her home, her family would be beyond terrified."

Dager jumped, looking around as his name was mentioned.

"Huh? What-?"

Degster clicked his tongue.

He then turned to look to his right.

Shake was standing in their circle, but he was covering his mouth with his hand, in deep thought.

Degster's eye twitched.

Before he could stop himself, his arm moved as he hit the back of Shake's head.

"What are you zoning out for?!"

Shake's lowered head whipped back up, looking at Degster in complete disbelief.

"Did you just hit me?"

Degster's jaw dropped.

'Is he serious?'

Unknowingly, Degster looked down.

There sat, strangely enough, the most helpful member in the current Abyssal Troop.

Darmine looked at him before shaking her head with distain.

"Juny would be really disappointed if she saw you."

All three flinched, as if she had just stabbed them where it hurt the most.

Darmine sighed.

"I know how you feel, but think about it. If you can't focus, then take a break and get yourself together. What you're doing is wasting time which we don't have. Who knows when the officials might appear?"

Dager's frowned, scratching the back of his neck.

"I get it. I'll take them back."

Ellone shuddered, looking at Dager in surprise.

"Take who back? I don't need to go anywhere, I'm fine."

Dager looked at her as if she was stupid.

Although he wasn't especially listening, he still heard what Degster asked him to do.