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*Looks for any difference in my own life force composition near the water as I try to discern the sounds*

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*The static begins to betray more intense sounds of collective whispers as the air around where you stand specifically begins to warp and waver even more intensely than the shimmering effect present in the area prior to now*

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He—woah!
*Backpedals away from the liquid*

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*As you back away, you seem to inadvertently step through a patch of shimmering air directly, which warps the landscape around you entirely into something completely unrecognizable. The lake in front of you now appears entirely dried up, though it still harbors massive conflagration of dark flame on its would-be surface, through which large amount of insectoid entities tote around large pieces of disassembled machinery. The flame itself stretches into the sky like an endless bonfire in front of you, and the sky itself is entirely blocked out by movement, which can quickly but not immediately be determined to be a seemingly endless swarm of man-sized insects moving across the planet in incalculable waves*

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*My jaw drops as I gaze into the sky*
Man... today is not my day.
*Tries moving forward to exit the realm*

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*In response to your speech, the sky bellows with the shrill shrieks of an oversized insect swarm, sounding almost identical to the noise from your communicator before. Merely stepping back forward doesn’t seem to return you to the material plane like you’d expect from a static spacial anomaly*

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*Holds a hand to my ear, my jacket and the skin beneath now clearly smoldering*
Aagghh...
*Wanders back toward where the bodies were, looking at my own soul's state in the process*

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*In this realm, despite being in close proximity to a visible flame for the first time, your own soul and spirit are no longer burning or withering at all, seeming placed in a state of stasis as a result of being here. The damage that’s already been done is still present, however, it just seems to have stagnated in its spread*

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O—
*Stops myself, reconsiders making any noise, and places my hand against the body*

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*The body feels warm to the touch in this layer of reality but doesn’t otherwise react in any way you wouldn’t expect under normal circumstances*

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*Quietly*
I guess I can take my time here...
*Tries moving the body*

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*It seems anchored in place due to its physical presence not entirely existing here*

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*Attempts to project my own lifeforce into the planet again*

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*You do so without obstruction*

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*Aims to detect any other energies*

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*The earth is devoid of the previous energies of the Panacea but instead flooded with the presence of the insect people everywhere. The only other difference seems to be that the inferno around you is sourced from life as you might expect, drawn from over great distances*

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*Looks for any insects near ground level*

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*There are a great number particularly in the crater of the now-empty spring, toting around metallic parts and assembling them together into a larger machine, before they blink out of existence after a certain stage of assembly*

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*Sneaks around the spring to get a better look at the creatures and what they're building*

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*The pieces seem to phase out before they are ever in too massive of an assembly all at the same, but the parts themselves seem to incorporate a lot of storage tanks and pieces you’d associate with a pump*