Another Chance
Even now, the Scourge could feel her power stirring, that sacred light they had long buried deep beneath layers of earth and bone.
And the Scourge hated the light.
It gnawed at them like acid, slithered between their teeth like poison. That light had once destroyed them. It was the seed of their undoing and she carried the last of it, the fragile spark that could consume everything.
The vessel stirred from the swamp root of their creation, a body began to form shaped in bone and brimstone, etched with decay and whispered curses. The Scourge funneled themselves into it, bit by bit, until the air grew cold and the birds forgot to sing.
Sikat na Kabanata