🦊 Планета Флерантор, осколки человечества 🦊

Having moved away with his new “acquaintance” to a safe distance, Aristarch switched to a whisper.

- I am Aristarch, a student of the wise Augur. Mahra is a victim of your teacher Utar’s experiments. He once implanted a root of the chthonic forest in her. Don't even ask me how I know this…
- As a result of this “experiment,” Mahra lost her ability to speak but gained inhuman beauty and resilience. Have you ever heard her speak? No? That’s what I mean...
- And after your “expedition,” she started speaking again. An interesting “coincidence,” isn’t it?
- Tell me, what happened there...

A stream of information poured out from the guy, literally like a wave crashing over Ida. The girl couldn’t get a word in edgewise, while the guy kept talking and talking. And so many questions at once!
Nevertheless, among everything he said, some things made sense and even shed light on what had happened in the northern forest.
- Well, now it’s clear what the icy entity meant before killing Utar...
Without going into all the details of the expedition, Ida briefly told about what happened in the northern forest. About how the corpses created an icy flesh by the chthonic forest, about how bloody the battle was. The girl also spoke about how the cursed flowers struck Mahra right before her eyes, and then Master Utar. And that before delivering the final blow to his teacher, the forest literally said the following:

– Playing with my roots? How audacious. Mahra, an unfinished creation, you will come with me.

The girl recounted how people continued to die. Corvus managed to escape, and Ida, while trying to flee, received a blow and lost consciousness.
- After that, everything seemed unreal. There was emptiness, there was Mahra...
The girl switched to a whisper:
- Even though she inspired trust in the darkness, she called herself “Champion of Hurat-Rekret.” When I tried to find out what she meant, he appeared… the forest. Or rather, whatever embodied it.
Ida also admitted that if what she saw in her dream is true, then she is alive only because of Mahra. But what the goal of her new “teacher” is remains unclear.
It was difficult for the girl to talk, but she held on as best she could. She wasn’t sure if Aristarch could be trusted. She just wanted to confide in someone, and he happened to be in the right place at the right time.