On the way back from their wholesome little family trip to the sun, it very quickly became a whole lot less wholesome as soon as Astra got involved. The entire trip back, she stared at Seth and Scar like they were freshly cooked meat slathered in gravy.
There was a... hunger in her eyes that chilled them to their very core. It made them feel like dead men marching to their own execution, and they had a feeling they knew the exact method of that execution.
They quickly dropped Nixie off, under the excuse that she needed to keep up with her training after her little candy binge. Scar was intended to leave at the same time, wanting to start his journey of endless hunting in the pursuit of strength. But Astra had other ideas.
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Seth stumbled down the corridor, his legs trembling beneath him. They had lost all sense of solidity, all of the strength that had been previously coursing through them was gone and had instead been replaced by nothing but jelly.
