The titanic beast screams as it continues to pursue the strange streak of light. The sound reverberates in your chest, shaking your insides and causing you to tremble.

You and your companions can only stand and watch in shock as the glowing line darts left and right, evading the pursuing monster with ease.

Curiosity overwhelms you, you need to know what that light is, no matter the danger. You grab L'Neeri's wrist and drag him over to the edge.

"What are you doing?!" He yells over the bellowing.

"We are going to find that light!" by now the light had made a significant distance from the titan creature. "Come on!"

You pull him off the edge. You feel him weakly struggle, but you ignore it.

The two of you plummet, down, back into the domain of Sa'Bel.

The two of you fall, screaming, down into the depths.

The clouds come up fast, plunging the two of you into soupy darkness for a few seconds, until you emerge into the Underworld.

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The air feels heavier and warmer here, thick with humidity and smelling faintly of mold and moss.

L'Neeri touches your wrist and your fall slows. The two of you alight on one of the titanic roots, your feet sinking into the mossy surface.

Out across the abyss below, you see the legs of the titanic creature standing on nothing. Her hands carve vast swaths of root and cloud out of the cloud layer above you, searching frantically for a now missing streak of light.

You and L'Neeri in horror watch as she stumbles around, crashing through roots and clouds without heed. With each titanic step, she sends cacophonous quakes throughout the root system.

The creature roars in frustration, smashing her hands down through the cloud layer and into the root system.

Suddenly, the beast drops through the clouds above, leveling her head with the roots. She whips her head around, searching once again for the mysterious cyan light.

Your heart pounds in your chest as you look at her.

In the distance, the beast turns her back to you and L'Neeri, bellowing and swiping her hands through the root system.

You suddenly feel someone touch the back of your neck. You and L'Neeri whip around at the same time to find a man there.

In your hand burns blazing light.

L'Neeri throws out his hand, and the man's spiky black hair and incredibly unusual clothes fall backward, away from the two of you, but not him.

He and L'Neeri do a double take. Then he speaks in a strange and alien accent, "...Why do the two of you have the same soul?"