' No. I'm not gonna work for you. I'll go check out if what you say is true now, but I'll go alone.' you proclaim. The demon stares at you for a while, expression betraying nothing. It comes over to the scalpel and pulls it back out from the stone, then sighs.
' I think you just made a huge mistake. You stand no chance out there.' You feel the restraints fade away, and get off the stone slab. Pain strikes immediately, but you grit your teeth and manage. Half of your wing is missing, but you didn't need that for flying anyway and could just as well shift your form so it'd be there again.
You shrug to the demon and jump through the Stream to the Underworld.
The first thing you notice is the silence. The Underworld is never silent, filled by resting or passing-by Guides and your superiors. The lack of life comes second, but you can't see any bodies either, oddly enough. You'd think an attack like this would leave a ton of bodies. The Bureaucracy buildings lay empty, and one is just a pile of rubble.
You've seen enough.
You think about your next step. You don't know if the Council will hunt down the remaining Guides, but it seems probable. You finding them first might be their only chance of survival, and together you might actually be able to fight back.
Unfortunately, the only way to find other Guides right now is to wait in the Stream for any of them to travel through and follow, which is probably the exact same thing the angels are doing. Guess it's worth the risk.
You go into the Stream - the plane connecting all the worlds and universes in existance - and wait.
Quite soon, a fellow Psychopomp comes into existance, a familiar beacon in the darkness. Unfortunately, six other beacons appear soon afterwards, heading after the first one. Angels. You're not sure if they can do whatever happened to you; pulling you where they wanted you, but they're still a huge threat.
Is going after this one worth the risk?
((Would've written more but my sister wanted the computer and this seemed like a good point to stop at))
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