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Lucian was thankful Lua didn't argue with him and simply took the crossbow. Had Lucian thought they'd be fighting in such a confined space, he'd have packed his tether bolts to ensure if the child was Cursed she couldn't jump around or run off. Tethering something to a brick wall was always more preferable than tethering them to something as loose as dirt or mud. Lucian then noticed Mergoux begin moving forward and cursed to himself. He wanted her to stay back but it was too late as she'd already gotten too close. Then she made the next mistake, she spoke to the girl with an outstretched hand. The old raven prepared his ax as the young girl looked up at Mergoux. She appeared totally normal as she sniffled and rubbed her nose. "[i]I got lost. I can't find mama and papa[/i]" she said in a timid tone. She got in a tighter ball as Mergoux reached out towards her. Mergoux's hand was a mere half a foot away when the girl's face had changed entirely from that of a sweet and innocent young girl to that of something of nightmares, the girl leaping like a frog to knock the mercenary over with an astonishing amount of strength.

Her eyes were sunken in and milky white, vacant of all color and pupiless. The skin surrounding the eyes was a bruised purple and wrinkled. Her skin was totally discolored, white like a corpse but yellowish in some areas as though the skin was beginning to rot. Her mouth was far too large for her head and full of not 1 but 2 sets of crooked and broken teeth to form gnarly points. It was then also apparent that she'd chewed off all the flesh at the tips of her fingers to reveal bone points. She....no no longer she, IT smelled of death and rot as it spoke in a voice that was many horrific voices. [color=black]"[b]We WiLl SwAlLoW yOuR fIlThY fUcKiNg HeArT[/b]"[/color] it screamed as it tried to drown Mergoux in the raw sewage. Thankfully, Lucian put his armored boot into the creature's chest and sent it flying back where it rolled into a crouched position like a cat ready to pounce. [color=darkred]"[b]You want her heart, come and get it[/b]"[/color] he quipped. 

The creature chortled at the old raven, that was when Lucian noticed figures appearing in the darkness behind it. What was once a one eyed man, a large woman, and a young boy. Each appearing much like her but in varying stages of decomposition. [color=black]"[b]GlAdLy, FoOlIsH oLd MaN[/b]"[/color] the man said in the same voice. Lucian felt a tug in his gut and focused on what he could hear. Scratching against rocks above them. His eyes began to widen as he realized the sound was behind them. [color=darkred]"[b]LUA BEHIND YOU![/b]"[/color] he yelled. Mere feet away, scaling along the ceiling was 1 more of them, a shirtless corpse that was horribly disfigured. It's head hung backward so the back of it's head rested against the spine, it's arms bending the wrong direction as it shrieked at Lua. Lucian focused his attention on the immediate threat before them. He sunk his ax into the girl's head as she leaped and split it like a log, the wound hissing and sizzling as though the blade was white hot. This seemed to cause the creatures to pause and eye Mergoux.[/center]