All four stretched their hands toward the bodies. The connection formed immediately, it was an invisible thread linking Beast Master to beast soul.
Light rushed over their bodies in different colors.
Reinhard's body glowed blue-black, the color from Odin, Joseph's frame lit with grey light, Lancelot's influence appeared. Marie shone golden, Seraphim's radiance impossible to miss, and Amiya blazed crimson-black, her Reaper spirit's light.
Their expressions shifted simultaneously.
Reinhard trembled as a surge of emotion crashed into him in waves. He felt desperation rushing through him, fear clawing at his consciousness, and a desire to escape so powerful it made his muscles twitch involuntarily. And beneath it all, a want to end everything, to make the suffering stop.
