[The cries echo through the tunnels, traveling far through the sprawling dark until they reach another also lost in the fog. That fog felt like a sanctuary to Lusamine once, when she was here last. She had been convinced that it held all she could ever want: memories of the happinesses that had been stolen from her, frozen in time for her to stay in forever. Only phantoms, perhaps, but better than the nothingness she had left. In the moments the fog did not show her those beautiful things, it was instead stripping the ugly memories from her mind—and that, she decided, was just fine, too.
Now, the fog has done just that, leaving her with no memory of it. In this moment, all she knows is that someone—a child, alone in the dark—is calling for her, and she can't hope to ignore him.
Something she does manage to remember after she starts her search, moving unsteadily on her four legs, is that the body she's in is built for burrowing. Despite the complexity and foreignness of the caverns, on instinct, she knows exactly how to navigate them and where to go to find what she seeks.
Soon, she comes slinking out of the dark toward him, the glint of her sharp Yungoos fangs and claws surely menacing—but when she speaks, her voice is sweet and soothing.]
Oh, you poor dear... Shh. It's all right now. I'm here, I have you...
From Tunnels Deep
Now, the fog has done just that, leaving her with no memory of it. In this moment, all she knows is that someone—a child, alone in the dark—is calling for her, and she can't hope to ignore him.
Something she does manage to remember after she starts her search, moving unsteadily on her four legs, is that the body she's in is built for burrowing. Despite the complexity and foreignness of the caverns, on instinct, she knows exactly how to navigate them and where to go to find what she seeks.
Soon, she comes slinking out of the dark toward him, the glint of her sharp Yungoos fangs and claws surely menacing—but when she speaks, her voice is sweet and soothing.]
Oh, you poor dear... Shh. It's all right now. I'm here, I have you...