The elder paused while took a cup filled with warm tea and moistened his dry throat before continuing.
"By that time," he said, "our people, the Minoan tribe had already fled to hide deep within the northern mountains. A few brave souls risked their lives to go outside and send us what little news they could."
He finished that part of the story and fell silent for a moment.
Shiao Yi thought back to the creature he and Dominic had seen deep underground, the Aeon.
What they had witnessed was surely only a fragment of its true form.
He could not even imagine how vast the entire body must have been.
It had no eyes, no mouth, no organs like any living thing should have.
Its existence was like slime. It's amorphous, shifting, impossible to understand and yet, it lived.
Its alien nature reminded Shiao Yi of the enemy he had once fought in his previous life.
