Please do not open this chapter if you are under 18 years old, gore content warning.⛔️
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As the followers of Selene continued their dark rituals, their faces twisted with a mixture of reverence and sadistic pleasure, the bound victims could do nothing but endure their torment, trapped in a nightmare from which there seemed to be no escape.
They were still alive, of course. Their eyes vacant, mouths gaping open, foreheads pierced. Their brains dried up, black circles pointing downwards as gravity pulled their hair and limp bodies.
"One dead and two survived," reported one of the research assistants.
"Such is the price of knowledge. Some lives must be sacrificed in the pursuit of knowledge. For the sake of a new understanding that souls never truly die, even after death."
