Darklight: The New World

Part 48: Behind Enemy Lines

She was walking through the streets, taking it all in. This place... how could it have been there all this time, right under her nose? This city of Skry... there were thousands of them here, thriving in a hidden pocket of space-time within a caldera. She had to admit that Kisa was a genius level strategist to come up with this one. The heat of the caldera would provide power and cloak the city’s heat signatures from Utopia. Along with a primary protective shield and an EM shell that prevented electrical signals leaving the city limits it was perfectly hidden. He even managed to bend light around the city, shielding it on the visible light spectrum. It was impressive.

Maybe since her purge she had assumed the Skry had been all but wiped out so she shifted her focus too far away from her extinction efforts. 

But once she had completed her plan she could pick up where she left off - they would all die.

She walked through the city, listening to the call of her soul fragment, the lost part of her that was held within the Darklight Sai. The missing fragment of her soul would restore her to her full power, and her new body would make her unstoppable.

Her dark hood was concealing her deformed face and she made sure that her blonde-dark brown hair was pulled back to ensure that it didn’t fall out of the hood and make people look at her. She boarded one of the large elevators that rose from the base of the city to the upper plate. Finding herself a secluded area on the edge of the plate she leaned against the wall, looking through the railings that prevented would-be suicidal individuals from falling to their deaths. As she looked out she closed her eyes.

And she felt it.

She heard it.

A faint whisper... her own voice calling out to her below.

“Rammachandra....” 

Yes, it was here - she was right. Soran had taken the last piece of her as a trophy when her body had failed her. She knew the area in which it was, but from her secretive subterranean hiding place she could not pinpoint the location. The ancient displacement device was much more accurate than anything that either the Skry or Utopia had developed and it had covertly brought her into the city, who’s cloak had prevented her pinpointing the last part of herself. 

But now that she was within Eresmai’s bubble she knew exactly where the Sai was.

And she would be whole again.