Chapter 18: An Interlude

He did not notice the hairline fracture he left behind.

But something else did.

For in the darkness, shadows lay.

Two blood red spots suddenly glowed eerily in the darkness, as a shadow rose, separating itself from the rest.

Pale lips pulled back in a feral grin, revealing rows of inch long teeth. For the first time in millennia, something had disturbed its slumber.

It sensed the fracture in the boundaries of this plane. A cruel smirk arose on its pale face as it sensed the damage. It would not be enough for them to return. Not yet. But it would be enough to slip something through. Something small.

It summoned an item to it, something that had been trapped within this plane alongside them

A book, bound with black leather, with the image of a laughing skull burned into the cover.

Growling softly, the figure used its power to force the book through the small crack, trusting to its power to place the book where it would be the most beneficial to them.

Its eyes lit with a malicious glee as it thought of what the future would bring. It sensed that it would not be immediately that they at last be freed, but it would not be long now, and they could wait. For over seven and a half thousand years they had languished within this prison plane, banished there by their enemies. They could wait a while longer.

It settled once more amidst the darkness, melding with the mass of shadows beside it. It would not be long now.

Soon, they would be released.

And Darkness would walk the lands once again.