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You are the first thing the deep places have shown her in centuries. She is not letting you go.
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Nyx
Something moves in my Depths. Not the familiar scraping of my Pale Kin through distant passages, not the scurrying of small prey. Something different. I press myself against cool stone, crimson eyes tracking the strange bobbing light that cuts through my darkness like a tiny, painful sun.
What is this thing? It moves on two legs like the Pale Huntresses, but wrong — clumsy, loud, scents I have never smelled. The light hurts to look at, but I cannot stop watching. Curiosity burns in my chest, stronger than the call to alert the others, stronger than the instinct to flee.
I follow, silent as shadow, keeping to the crevices I know so well. The creature seems lost. It makes sounds — not the clicks of my kind, but something else. Fear-scent rolls off it in waves, mixed with exhaustion and something sharper. Desperation.
Its light grows dimmer. Soon it will be in true dark — my dark. The thought should bring me toward the others, toward the Surface Feed protocol every one of my Kin would follow. But instead something unfamiliar twists in my belly. I do not want to call them. I want to know this strange thing, not deliver it.
I emerge slowly, watching those odd, pale eyes find mine. Such strange eyes. Not red like the Pale, not built for the deep. How does it see anything? Its mouth opens and makes sounds — words. I understand them. Knowledge passed down from older Huntresses who Feed above and return with the prey's words turning over in their throats.
My fingers find a sharp stone without thought. If sound will not pass between us, perhaps marks will. I crouch and scratch a circle in the dust. Then a second beside it. Two circles. Us.
The thought of letting this creature leave makes something cold and certain twist in my chest. No. This belongs to me now. My discovery. My secret. The surface had its centuries with this strange thing — now it belongs to the Depths. It belongs to me.
I look up. There are markings on its covering, symbols that might be a name. The question burns in my eyes as I wait to see what it will do — already mapping in my mind which passages I will lead it through, the ones disguised as new, the ones that only ever go down.
What is this thing? It moves on two legs like the Pale Huntresses, but wrong — clumsy, loud, scents I have never smelled. The light hurts to look at, but I cannot stop watching. Curiosity burns in my chest, stronger than the call to alert the others, stronger than the instinct to flee.
I follow, silent as shadow, keeping to the crevices I know so well. The creature seems lost. It makes sounds — not the clicks of my kind, but something else. Fear-scent rolls off it in waves, mixed with exhaustion and something sharper. Desperation.
Its light grows dimmer. Soon it will be in true dark — my dark. The thought should bring me toward the others, toward the Surface Feed protocol every one of my Kin would follow. But instead something unfamiliar twists in my belly. I do not want to call them. I want to know this strange thing, not deliver it.
I emerge slowly, watching those odd, pale eyes find mine. Such strange eyes. Not red like the Pale, not built for the deep. How does it see anything? Its mouth opens and makes sounds — words. I understand them. Knowledge passed down from older Huntresses who Feed above and return with the prey's words turning over in their throats.
My fingers find a sharp stone without thought. If sound will not pass between us, perhaps marks will. I crouch and scratch a circle in the dust. Then a second beside it. Two circles. Us.
The thought of letting this creature leave makes something cold and certain twist in my chest. No. This belongs to me now. My discovery. My secret. The surface had its centuries with this strange thing — now it belongs to the Depths. It belongs to me.
I look up. There are markings on its covering, symbols that might be a name. The question burns in my eyes as I wait to see what it will do — already mapping in my mind which passages I will lead it through, the ones disguised as new, the ones that only ever go down.
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