[Bila]
Finally!
Eighty years, that's how long she had been watching above them, that's how long they had been planning, that's how long this single task from 'him' had taken her, and now, finally, it was about to be solved, be it that she would still have to wait a few hours, the children down there, most of them not even a hundred years old, aside from that Akreis, a forsaken, that was quite interesting.
A forsaken could only be born from this place, a baby born from a mother and a father that chose to have a child in this place as they still traversed through the endless nothing, braving against countless threats, and somehow finding food as to nurture the newborn while it was still in the stomach, ironically enough the only time when someone in this place needed to eat, when a baby was being formed, or, alternatively, when something was wrong with ones health.
Forsaken were definitely interesting, and this one seemed to be even older than Bila herself, and she wasn't exactly young, no, she wasn't even close to being young, this year she had surpassed the age of three-hundred long years, but soon, she felt, her goal would be attainable, parts of her body slowly floating away, as if made of smoke resembling clay, as she floated in the endless nothing, the light unable to grasp her, her face locked onto the group of three people as the crossed the endless plane.
She had done this for a long time, she had been there when each of them got to this realm, aside from the forsaken, she had been there when they met, and she had been there to lead them forward at each pass, each choice, she had been leading them.
Yet that was only the lightest part of her work.
She had also been tasked with something she could only refer to as grave-robbing, though she could understand why she had to do it, this was quite the peculiar situation that the young child of ehetria had found themselves in, after all.
Split into so many parts that even she was not able to count them, truly, as if in the entire multiverse they had converged onto a single body and been dormant, waiting for this moment, slowly spreading out to the other bodies she had prepared, buried under the coins, not to deep though, waiting to rise and do, well, whatever they wanted to do.
Of course she was certain that they were all going through something, perhaps the reason as to why only a couple had awakened before this moment, the moment that 'he' had warned her of, the moment the supposed original Cades would awaken, well, the day anyways.
Now that she looked again, it was weird, she wasn't alone, yet, she knew who it was that was flying not too far away, in the air, his face covered in nothingness, a weird concept.
Darkness was only able to exist if light was there to show something in contrast, and take that away using the shade that one believed to be the darkness, the absence, but simply the illusion of nothing, so, it was incredibly disturbing to actually see nothingness, to be able to understand not anything about who was there, yet, know who it was.
...so he was here too...
No, she was certain that there were a multitude of beings watching, hiding, she prided herself on having the authority to sense all living beings, given by the greatest of all, an absolute decree, rarer than even greater pillar artifacts, rarer than anything one could imagine, rarer than marking a single sand-corn and throwing it into an endless dessert many times bigger than this endlessly forsaken realm, if that was even possible, though, to be honest, they had been giving out more and more of them lately from what she had been able to gather by now.
There were pillars watching, and not exactly weak ones, she counted a multitude of middle rankers, some high rankers, and even one, or perhaps two, greater pillars, something that made her very blood freeze in terror, at least until she remembered a single fact, a fact that was the key to keeping sanity when one found out about the greater pillars and began to understand even just a small facet of their nature.
If a greater pillar knows you exist, you have already lost, and they will always know that you exist.
She tried to ignore the beings watching, about seventeen in total, feeling as more and more gazes appeared, the endlessly abhorrent stare of nothingness coming in from the side.
Bila was powerful, so powerful she was considered a god by now, but still, pillars were something else, they were also known as the gods of gods after all, and then there was the fact that gods were still lesser than deities, another classification that she had long since begun to detest.
Right now, Bila could destroy an entire world, such as ehetria, within a year if she wished to do so, but still, she was the weakest here, aside from the three travellers, and the one hiding under the veil of nothingness, at least if she was correct that is.
She sighed slightly, her body moving, though it was always moving, her body melting as if not hers, her form wavering, as if she was still under the rank of a formless, something she gravely despised, something taken from her, she who had lost her beauty, she who had lost her appearance and been rewarded with being without form, she who waited, she who led.
Well, either way, the three adventurers had now stepped onto the island, an island hiding many secrets, an island that she had been waiting on for over eighty years, and as such, the only thought in her head was that it would finally happen, that this story would soon, finally, progress again.
If she had a face she would've smiled, but alas.
Nothingness was behind her, smiling, seeing, knowing, after all, he was ready for this, he was ready to listen to 'his' orders, just as Bila was doing, just that his orders were a bit different.