Chapter 170 - The Abyss Hungers

The revelation of Dante's true nature as the Shadow Prince had created fractures in the cosmic machinery that governed their procession across the blood-tinged wasteland. The shadow-fragments that followed Selena moved with increasing uncertainty, their processed consciousness struggling to reconcile the systematic manipulation that had shaped their allegiance with the genuine emotions that had made that manipulation possible. The administrative apparatus connecting all of them guardian, protected, and followers pulsed with energies that spoke of cosmic bureaucracy adapting to developments that had exceeded its normal processing parameters.