BiFrost Terminal OCT
"It would have been a perfect day. Serene even. The sky was a clear blue dotted with little wisps of clouds. The sun bright and warm. Yes, anywhere else in the world this would have been a wonderful day to be outside. But today, Cain was just annoyed with it."
"Mal thought idly that he might be working too much, as he tried to wipe some of the blood off his face. All he managed to do was make it worse, spread the slightly tacky substance further across pale freckled skin, hands soaked much more thoroughly. Honestly most of him was pretty coated in a nauseating miasma of bodily fluids, the very air reeking of metal and meat. His hair was sticking to his skin in places, long, messy black waves clumped in chunks, and he could even feel where something had gotten under the leather patch covering his missing right eye."
"This place, she’d been here before. Was this Carcosa? No, no it couldn’t have been. Carcosa’s sky, barren trees, and the majority of its landscape were shades of sickly yellow, only broken up by the black stars and black city. But this? She looked around the cold cyan around her, entrapping her. She tried to call out, screaming at the top of her lungs for Mal, for anyone, but no sound escaped, just like before. Her nails dug into her flesh as she retreated into herself, looking around wildly for any sign of life. A misstep. A rock slid under her heel, causing her to stagger and she tumbled over a lone monument made out of cut black stone. Her back and knees protested as she lay on the rough ground. It had been years since she hadn’t been able to catch herself from a fall and to her annoyance hot tears were now running down her face. "
"His text got kicked back."