CLANN 1: The First Greeting scene 26
The world shook as Mav charged into the dark room. He bumped into something gooey which overlayed a large and metallic object. The darkness obscured everything. But darkness always fled from Mav.
“Guiding Light!”
Flames shot from his shoulders into the air. They were meant to rest on the ceiling to brighten the room, but they spread as more tendrils caught flame.
Mav’s heart pumped in, his hair beginning to rise. The room had only two features in its center: a permanent table or operating bed that Mav had bumped into and some horizontal pod. To the right, a long cabinet ran along the room’s length with shelves overhanging it. To the left, a gaping hole led to a completely different room. From the hole, hundreds of dark tendrils snaked across the floor, wall, and ceiling, burying everything beneath it. Lumps on the floor likely represented rubble from the destroyed wall, though one in the far corner moaned in pain. Mav’s heart pumped out, his hair on end.
“Cleaning Fire.”
Like candlelight to spider’s silk, the controlled fire vanquished the cursed roots in a wave. Something massive churned through the opening in the wall, but the pod before Mav drew his attention.
A warm, dull glow emanated from a glass portion. As Mav walked closer, he trod upon wires and tubes connecting the pod to the metal table. What was inside seemed to remove all the cold that had built up in Mav’s body.
“Wait...” a man – the one beneath the tendrils – croaked, feebly reaching to Mav as he gripped the pod’s door. “You’ll ruin everything.”
Mav’s fingers melted the pod’s hinges, then he wrenched the door aside.
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