The space in front of the three women distorted before any of them could continue the conversation.
The energy of Tartarus contracted as if an invisible hand had seized the air itself, forming a black rupture surrounded by small fragments of spiritual light.
Strax stepped through first, wearing the calm expression of someone who had just returned from an ordinary walk despite the enormous amount of new energy hidden inside his body.
Thana appeared right behind him, her robe still partially destroyed, her hair disheveled, and an expression suggesting that over the last few hours she had reconsidered several times whether continuing to exist near that dragon was really worth it.
Cerberus did not come through with them. His size would turn the palace into a structural problem, so Strax had left him waiting outside the narrower regions.
Lithara, Albedo, and Persephone stared at him.
