The sound rolled through the stone like something vast turning over in its sleep.
"That's not the entity," Bellan said, backing away from the stairwell. "Neither of them sound like that."
Gad reached the base of the stairs before Mira could stop him, torchlight from above flickering unsteady, throwing long shadows down the spiral steps.
"Gad, wait," Mira called, grabbing her own torch and following.
He climbed fast, taking the stone steps two at a time, chest burning with exhaustion he didn't have time to acknowledge.
The upper chamber came into view as he reached the top, and what he saw stopped him cold.
The old entity's c***k, the one that had spoken to them for hours, patient and weakened, had split wider across the entire chamber floor, pale light flashing upward violently inst
