Everything was dark and pain radiated through my entire being. I couldn't see, couldn't think clearly, couldn't even tell which way was up.
The Harvester's blow had done real damage. Not just physical, something deeper. My consciousness felt cracked, fragments of my awareness scattered like broken glass.
I could hear the entity moving closer. Those thousands of voices speaking as one, saying something I couldn't quite make out through the ringing in my head.
This was it. I was going to die here in this collapsing cathedral while the Harvester regenerated and continued its harvest.
All those people I'd tried to save. All those fragments I'd freed. It wouldn't matter if I died now and let this thing survive.
Then I thought about Raya.
Still trapped in the Shadow Depths after months of
