@theterrorwhumpathon for the prompt tuunbaq-soul steal <3
When Irving first started raving about the creature "eating people's souls" everybody agreed that the ice had gotten too much for him (and privately some were whispering that although you'd certainly be damned having no faith at all, having too much of it could make a man go... unbalanced). After all a coma (although odd) was a perfectly explainable thing. Times were hard on everybody, but if the lieutenant insisted on getting increasingly paranoid over a simple scientific phenomenon like that maybe I'd be best to let him stay cooped up in his cabin after all, if that's what he wanted.
He didn't see it coming in the end. The only thing he dedicated his life to, sacrificed his desires for will not want him anymore. And he will not see his god - or anybody else - ever again.
His lifeless body was found on the shale, breathing still.
