The Tale of Noraan part 6

Or'do ducked beneath an undead's spear, one hand wrapping around its emaciated wrist, the other stretched out with fingers curled like a talon ready to grasp and tear. Damp and sickening, a harsh crack rang out as his arm crunched through its chest, spraying its life across the stones; the monster crumpled, held aloft only by his impaled limb, its last breath turned sour by death, washing over him as the light left its eyes. Despair flickered across its sunken features, replaced quickly by terror as its blood fell still and its undead heart at last and forevermore silent remained.

Noraan laughed in disbelief as the Lothric Knight slid limply from Or'do's gleaming arm, a thick trail of dark blood tracing its path to the cold, unforgiving stones below.

"By the Sun, Or'do! I think there's more to you than mere fighting spirit!" His words drew a pall of uncharacteristic solemnity over the gregarious warrior of the Sun.

"Know you of the Deep Sea?" He asked, his eyes dark and downcast, their light lost in melancholy shadow.

"Only that Aldritch sought to drown this realm with it. The Age of neither Flame nor Dark but of Deep, something like that, correct?"

"Aye." Darkness, a chill to his words, a haunted look in Or'do's eyes as he met Noraan's uncertain gaze. "Yet he was not so mad as we once believed."

"You cannot mean-"

"I do." Or'do broke away, tearing his gaze from Noraan's. "The Deep Sea is real, Noraan, and it comes for us, a distant knell that all the louder grows." He withdrew a small vial from his belt, a cylinder of glass that shone softly from within, dark lightning crackling through it as if a tempest raged within those diaphanous walls. "This, is a Shard of the Unmaking. The Void that reigned before Flame and Dark, before even Deep and will forever again consume this place when the Flame is lost and the Deep's black fire burns itself to nothing."

Noraan fell silent, words as much as reason failing him. "Then why bother?" His voice trembled like the hand of a dying man. "Why bother when our world shall end regardless?!"

"Because we can stop it." Or'do turned back, his eyes two pools of dark fire. "But to do so, we must turn our backs on the Flame."

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