Sacrificial Insanity

The voice was everywhere, it was all over the temple and not in the temple at all. It was in my head, in my ears, in my feet (if I could listen to my feet I'm sure it was there). I didn't see Alisa react like I did at its announcement so I assumed it hit me harder than her (this is true). The voice was so loud at first I couldn't make out what it was saying. Almost like when you are at an event and the main speaker has his mic up too loud.

"Welcome sacrifice." Eventually it came through. Alisa did not react at all to the announcement and thought it strange when I spoke to what appeared to be nothing.

"Is that to say I'm a welcome sacrifice, or are you welcoming a sacrifice." The voice did not speak back, if I didn't know any better I'd assume I had confused it.

"I'm saying, you are the sacrifice and I welcome you, also that you are a welcome sacrifice to my magnificence."

"Right magnificence, look can we just skip ahead here to where I kill you, you let us go and we go and kill the absolute shit out of Randal."

"Who are you talking to?" Alisa seemed to think I'd finally snapped, I shushed her because adults were talking.

"The being that occupies this little house of horrors, you can't hear him?"

"Only person I hear is you crazy."

"ARE YOU THROUGH!?" The voice echoed again.

"Can you be quiet when adults are talking voice." Hilariously this prompted the voice to manifest and scare the crap out of Alisa from its sudden appearance.

"YOU WILL NOT IGNORE!"

"Hey thanks."

"For what?" The voices body was that of a dumpy middle aged guy, almost like Randal, I wonder if manifested as something that Randal would deal with. I fired a single shot with the hand of the fire god and the bullet caught the creature right below its eye, the shot exploded from there an incinerated him. The humming that was the power in the temple stopped immediately.

"Well that's all well and good yah, but do you know a way out of here?"

"Ummm shit." I think it was entirely unfair to blame me for not having an exit strategy when clearly neither did Alisa! And I still stick by that.