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prologue (maw of the beast)

prologue (maw of the beast)

It was a unusual day for Felix. The snow fell from the sky rapidly, threatening to cover the mortal world in its white chill. But no, that wasn't the issue here, as it was winter in sweden, it would be more unusual if it didn't snow. Thankfully, he quite enjoyed snow. It felt nice after a long hard day of labour to feel some snow to freeze the stress away.

No the issue wasn't the snow, or the cold that came with it, it was the being looking down at him. it must have been atleast 20 meters tall, with long appendages reaching towards the ground, as if it was its only way not to fly away with the wind. Its 'chest' was large, bearing resemblance to anglerfish turned 90 degrees, with enourmous teeth angled towards eachother and a large oppening into a void inbetween its large 'fangs'. It reminded Felix of a gaping dragon from dark souls.

Above it's chest was its 'head', abnormaly small comparred to its body. From the front he could see 7 eyes all staring back at him. It's 'head' had no mouth, no nose, and nothing except those freekish eyes that seemed to have looked into the abyss and felt it stare back. 

After staring at the creature for a couple of seconds, Felix could only utter few words in his native language of sweden

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"Fan ska du vara? Nya bloodborne bossen eller? (the fuck are you supposed to be? the new bloodborne boss?)" he tried his best to keep himself in a functional state of mind infront of the creature by joking to himself and associating it with something he has knowledge of, instead of just 'creature that will most certainly kill me'

As if on cue, when Felix finished his sentence the creature started moving. Its tentacle slowly approaching him, and its giant maw starting to stretch open, now big enough to eat a small car with ease. 

Felix sees this and begins to slowly back away for the beast, before entering a sprint. But after barely a second of running, his head starts pounding. Sounds and images starts flooding his mind, unheard languages and runes with unknown meaning attack his mind with ferosity, replace his fear with confusion.

In his stupor, he is picked up by the creatures tentacles and gets carried to its maw. As he looks into the maw of the beast, he sees not his memories flash before his eyes, not his dead family members faces smiling at him. The only thing he sees is the infinite abyss, slowly encompasing him. 

The tentacles let go of him, and he starts falling into the mouth of the horror, still not free of his stupor. Just as he the mouth was closing around him he remembered something

'I never got to taste sushi...' and then there was only darkness

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