There are moments in life where you meet someone so absurdly strange that you're forced to stop everything you're doing and seriously question what the f*ck is going on in their life.
Elias was currently having one of those moments.
When he left the Abyss with Alice, his reasons had been simple.
He wanted to study her blood.
To understand it.
To dissect its properties, refine it, and eventually use it to eliminate side effects. If successful, it would become the magnum opus of his entire life's work. A breakthrough that could redefine everything they knew about the Abyss.
That was the plan.
A straightforward pursuit of knowledge.
But ever since he started following her…
Nothing had been straightforward.
Every step deeper into her world only seemed to drag him further away from anything he could reasonably define as "normal."
Ther was the Nightmare realm.
