Selesta went to sleep that night, having already spent a week in the valley camp.
She was happy, she wanted Faca to go with her on the trip to the southern city, but it was too dangerous.
She would go South for her battle, and if she managed to survive she would look for Faca in the North.
Selesta fell asleep still feeling the taste of Faca's kisses on her lips, life was worth it for those simple and yet so rewarding things.
All week Selesta's nights had been peaceful, tired from swinging her sword during the day, she slept like a log at night, but tonight would be different, totally different.
Selesta suddenly woke up! She couldn't see an inch in front of her nose, the darkest of the dark. Suddenly she felt pressure on her neck, and a monstrous hand grabbed her with terrible force.
*Pathetic human, you are not worthy of this power* a voice as hard as steel barked.
Selesta tried to free the hand that was squeezing her neck but it was impossible, she then tried to imagine metallic chains piercing the creature that was attacking her, the chains appeared, but they were not like the ones she created during the day, they were simply horrendous, intricate, distorted, thorny and bloody.
The chains began to hit the hideous creature in front of her, but instead of hitting it, they went through it as if it was made of air and came to hit her!
Selesta roared in pain as dozens of chains hit her body mercilessly.
Then a horrendous crack of bone breaking was heard, the creature had broken her neck and it hung to the side.
Despite all that physical damage, Selesta was still conscious watching her own death.
Selesta wanted it to end, she didn't want any more pain. "Ma...rianne…" she remembered the tender hug that the woman had given her, the memory filled that dark space with light, and the creature began to howl, that light burned it, it screamed and fled into a bag of darkness. The hideous chains disappeared, the pain disappeared, everything disappeared…
Selesta woke up on the straw bed in the southern camp tent, it was morning. She was sweaty from head to toe. Her metal clothing had come apart and was scattered on the ground wet with piss, and her cloak was torn. Her head hurt as if someone had hit it with a hammer, she was shaking, and she still remembered the horror of the nightmare she had had that night.
She left the tent staggering, chaos reigned in the camp: tents were torn apart, the ground was ripped apart, and metal chains coming out of the ground had destroyed everything in their path.
"Shit, withdraw!" She ordered, and all the chains in her vicinity were swallowed by the ground and disappeared.
She ran towards Faca's tent, located one hundred meters outside the camp, there were twisted metal chains everywhere, and she saw animals impaled on them, crushed trees, and blocked passages, it was a total mess, her nightmare had destroyed the entire valley, as she passed the metal chains would retreat to the ground.
"Please no, Faca…"
She finally arrived at Faca's tent. It was destroyed. Amid the wreckage was a body. Faca was lying on the ground amid thorny chains.
The scream that came out of Selesta's mouth didn't sound human. "WITHDRAW!"
The chains disappeared into the ground and freed Faca from their deadly embrace.
Selesta picked up her friend's body, she seemed to still be sleeping, death had been instantaneous, and she had not suffered.
She still thought about creating a chain to bury her, but she didn't want those things to touch her again, instead, she used the chains to open a hole and deposited her friend in it. She covered the hole herself with soil, then took a wooden branch and stuck it into the mound to mark the grave.
Selesta turned her back and returned to the camp without saying a single word.
She arrived at the camp and looked at the slave's wooden log.
With infinite anger in her eyes, she tied the log with several metallic chains and ripped it violently from the ground. She spun it at dizzying speed in the air, the violent air current ripped the debris from the camp and spread them in all directions.
Selesta stopped the swinging of the chains and the log flew away at supersonic speed, after a few seconds a huge bang was heard on the farthest mountain and a gigantic cloud of debris rose into the air resulting from the partial collapse of that slope.
"FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! GOD FUCKING DAMN IT!" Selesta slammed her fists violently on the ground, her body full of exoskeleton lines, the force of the impact ripped the ground in several directions.
She thought about ending it all right there, it was so easy, she just needed to formulate a thought and those shitty chains would rip the life out of her body, and she would go to Faca.
However, the thought that surfaced in Selesta's mind was another, *Promise me….you will free them…*
"I... promise... even if it's the last thing I do in my life, I will free them, until the very last one...I promise!"
Selesta fell to her knees and finally cried.
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