The power sang through Dainen's soul, a discordant symphony of outrage and denial that summoned his every tightly suppressed fear. Crimson markings covering the majority of his body burned acidly, pulsing with a ruddy red light that shown through his deeply bronzed flesh.
Outline
Dainen lowers himself into a shaft leading into an undergound complex where his team expects to find another node of power for their King. The power in the place is forbidding and pushes back against him. The team has chosen him to go first, which he does, none to willingly.
- Mako taunts Dainen. Mocking half jokingly, the two are rivals. Dainen has no friends among the Hand. They dislike and fear him as he was an enemy before being taken by the King.
- The Captain simply watches, unyielding in an order already given.
- The markings burn in the power wafting up from below.
- Dainen is afraid, but attracted by the thought of death and oblivion.
The power burns and he can hear voices in his head warning him away and promising death and worse. The others feel it too, but have no choice but to proceed.
- The voices whisper to Dainen. New to him and terrifying.
- The alien power inside him writhes and falls silent, continuing to burn him. He welcomes its pain.
The team assembles below and explores. It is a combination of a monastery, a barracks and a temple, with the central shaft down which Dainen fell descended continuing, seemingly forever.
The Captain is wary and send the team (9, including the Captain) in groups of three.
They speak of previous expeditions. The Captain and Mako were the first to be taken by the King, Dainen the last.
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