Exoplanet 2

Chapter 20

Written by PD

Ugh. You know, when like, the whole world feels against you? Yeah. That’s literally how I feel right now.

Keeping my sanity alright is hard. I don’t even know if I AM sane. I’ve just been having so much trouble with compression between reality and my dreamlike trance. Do I have issues? Do I blame it on that stupid centipede woman who called me a hairless ape? No. Not really.

I trudged through Pearlescent Skeletons, careful not to trigger anything to attack. Clicking could be heard around me. Great. Rhyniostingers. I looked above me, the massive shadows passing by. I hid below a rock, as I waited for them to leave. One of the two landed on the ground, it’s multiple wings raised as if it was gonna fly. The other then came down, as they engaged in a massive brawl. Well I think. Screeches and hissed could be heard, but if I emerged my little head above I’d probably be decapitated in mere nanoseconds.

As I turned the fire on in my blade, the flames licked the blade hungrily as I waited for anything to emerge. But, as I soon realized, two yellow eyes watched me. They weren’t human, but weren’t as beastly as some of the ones I had encountered..?

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The thing made an unintelligible noise, as it emerged from the shadows. Thanatos backed away, pointing his blade at it mercilessly as it jumped back in terror. It was a masked Scarvolender, as it retreated back into the shadows. The two Rhyniostingers could be heard fighting above, the incessant screeching and hissing still filling the air as if it was a war. Amidst all this, the small crackle of the fire sounded almost homely compared to this. It was as if the fire had somehow formed a small atmosphere of comfort around it.