Thirty seven other people had come to the planet and died. The number seemed overly too high and too low for this fragment. Tolviar had to hope it wasn't Hanlon who had been sending them, but she couldn't be sure. The death god seemed to do things for his own amusement more than actual goals at times. Still that the children had helped usher these people to their doom told Tolviar all she needed to know about them. They were a defense mechanism of the creature. Unbeknownst to them, they helped it carry out its dark plans. Ultimately the children were its last line of defense.
"So what happens now?"
"Now you go down deep, into a secret path, and then you kill the creature, we have weapons you can..." Tolviar shook her head, and the woman looked confused.
"I will not be going down your secret path, I need a way out of here back up top, I will find a different way."
"That's not how the prophecy goes." The woman's eyes went black and she surged with power. Tolviar would have been shocked if not for the madness. That nattering crazy that was Trezlan had warned her never to trust, and in her not trusting she'd laid a necromantic trap for the woman, she touched it as she surged forward and her body went lifeless. A black ooze flowed out of her and past the make shift door. The rest of the children would come then, Tolviar knew it, and steeled herself to it.
"It's always hard to murder children, even ones mind controlled like this, you feel there should be another way." The madness waited till it was all over, the broken bodies smashed around the sewer like some grotesque nap time.
"How did you do any of this?" Tolviar realized she wasn't actually the soul of the monster that had given Trezlan his necromancy, she knew it now as she stared at the dead and had Trezlan himself seemingly impressed with her child murder.
"It helps if you don't think about it, if you don't look too deep into it. I mean at least these ones attacked you, I've done worse. It's funny I recalled killing my mentor and thinking I'd do better with the world, but tell you the truth I haven't, and now with you I'm glad my legacy continues even if I should not."
"You're the real monster." She found the way out and hoped the madness would not follow, but she knew it would, it had gotten its hooks into her now. She had let it in, and now it was happy to stay, if only to remind her that she wasn't a person like everyone else, and could never be. Once back on the surface the city was remarkably empty. She was able to make the spaceport without any resistance, and got in her ship which was remarkably not damaged.
"Leaving so soon?" It was Hanlon in the flesh and it took everything in her not to punch him in his god face.
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