Ascendant Nyla entered the chamber and was met with the excited gaze of the Shiik, however, Nyla's eyes were not focused on this magnificent queen for long before it moved to the right where a heavenly being of light sat on a throne of golden flame, her jaws dropped open as it felt as if her mind was exploding, a buzzing in her ears that she soon identified as the Shiik brought her mind out of the daze she had fallen into,
".... Is it ready yet, I am tired of waiting!" the Shiik was tapping the side of her throne more furiously as she spoke, words flowing from her mouth in an endless stream,
"How far has the Ascendant Sun traveled, is it a hoax that one of the Suns had truly fallen or did he simply hide himself in fear of my Creator's return? When can we expect a Temple Mother's arrival on Trion?..."
"Um, what?" Nyla looked back at the Shiik flustered, "What did you say? I was... I was..." She fell back into silence,
Sigh. "Is the outside world becoming that dangerous? Come back to me, child, rod your kind of chaos and tell me everything. In my presence, you are safe from any outside influence. Tell me all about your mission."
Nyla's eyes snapped back to the Shiik and nodded, "Um, yes, of course, my mission... but my Queen, what... who is that beside you?"
The Shiik finally noticed that the state of Nyla had changed once she entered her presence and not before, turned to her side, and frowned, "What do you mean, I don't..."
She unexpectedly vanished from her throne and appeared beside Nyla, her red hair began to blaze and her nails lengthened as she bared her fangs, hissing like a snake, her heart had nearly escaped her chest when she saw that a presence had been with her for a while and she had not even noticed,
"Who is that?!" she shrieked, her confused gaze turning to Nyla for a moment before returning to the shining figure sitting calmly on his throne,
"My Queen, don't tell me you did not know that you were not alone all this time." Nyla looked between the Shiik and the sitting figure, not knowing if she should laugh or cry at this situation.
The Shiik transmitted her words into Nyla's mind, "Stand behind me, I will deal with this situation, if you notice that things are getting out of hand, evacuate with as many Temple Maidens as you can, if any single Temple Maiden survives, so do we all."
Noticing that the figure had made no threatening gesture and appeared to be sleeping, the Shiik relaxed a bit and her eyes blazed with black flames as she used her investigative methods, but the flames from her eyes gutted out as if blown by the wind and black and white blood erupted from her sockets making the Shiik grunt in pain.
This did not deter her as her eyes healed in a blink and she poured a tremendous amount of vitality inside of them while boosting them with her Will.
Black runes of fire enveloped her entire body and then blasted outwards as she used her Will for eyes, but when it reached the shiny figure sitting on the throne, the Will simply vanished, swallowed into it without any motions made to unravel the mystery guest.
The Shiil backed away, her eyes not filled with panic but resolve, she turned to Nyla,
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