Each one the same and seemed to stretch one. The floor seemed to be slick with a strange substance, neither water nor blood. The wall just really seemed rocky but looking at it closer, it looked like graying flesh.

...it felt like they were inside a live giant.

...

"Mei..." She beamed, continuing to pet her daughter's head, "Be a good girl and close your eyes, okay?"

Something evil is brewing.

"But why, mom?" The girl frowned even more, brows furrowed as her face morphed into fear. She let go of her mother's skirt, "Why? You're scaring me."

Flashlight, batteries, a few candles and boxes of matches...

She had been preparing for this for the longest time and she was carefully packing them in a white sling bag, embroidered with lavenders, as if they're off to a picnic.

"I do not eat. Do you?" She asked, turning to Capitano with a smile.

ㅤㅤ“Runes can be used to strengthen oneself, if one has a maiden to help them. Alas, they usually only serve the Tarnished.”

ㅤㅤ•° the knight pocketed the runes, adding to her total. Three bags now.

ㅤㅤ“Every living being drop runes. We'll just have to hunt them down.”

"Only things and beings outside of this room can pull me out. However, doing that..." She wiped her hands clean and brushed down her long, white hair, redoing her braid, "...the Bedlam will not be happy if you take away her favorite toy."

But what is the Bedlam? Where is this? Is this hell?