[hr][hr][center][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/230605/b188b8e9cb2b405065c58f91ded076a7.png[/img][hr][img]https://media.tenor.com/rLjTeD6cKhQAAAAC/dr-strange-doctor.gif[/img][hr][@BlueSky44][@Nallore][@Trainerblue192][@PatientBean][@Blizz][@Kirah][@KazAlkemi][hr][h3][color=FF0000][b]Limbo[/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr]	Mercymorn rolled her eyes - or rather, the motion she was trying to make did suggest that she was rolling her eyes. She didn't have eyes. Just sockets. [i]I was here before you, I know what's going on!!![/i] Mercymorn protested. 

	[i]You do?[/i] Butter Rum then asked. [i]Because I wasn't super following...[/i] they admitted sheepishly. 

	Mercymorn made the same eye roll like motion again, as if to say 'see what I have to put up with?' 

	Carolina wouldn't manage to find the Chariot - the Green Eyed One must've stashed it somewhere else. However, there are saddles - also made from human skin, but what are you supposed to do? Not use it? Klara managed to get up onto Butter Rum, who had already been saddled up. Mercymorn's saddle will need to be put onto her. 

	[i]With the Green Eyed One gone, we can get you out of the maze, easy,[/i] Butter Rum agreed. 

	[i]Are you sure you want to go to Witchfire, though? She's as crazy as her dad,[/i] Mercymorn said. Mercymorn bent down slightly, to make it easy for Carolina and Jack to hop on, with or without a saddle. 

	[i]I heard she eats her own toes![/i] Butter Rum added, whinnying nervously. [hr][hr][center][h3][b][color=#a81a75]Runa the Grey[/color][/b][/h3][img]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/db4f97a911c55834e8956c78fb0d486b.jpg[/img][hr][b][color=#a81a75]Location:[/color][/b] Limbo
[b][color=#a81a75]Skills:[/color][/b] Intuition
[b][color=#a81a75]Spells:[/color][/b] Elder Futhark Runes
[hr][hr][/center]	Runa paused for a moment, hearing the name [i]Madelyne[/i] screamed beside her. She had not been to Limbo before - if she had ever been, she had long since forgotten the occasion - but even then she knew the connection between [i]Madelyne[/i] and [i]Limbo.[/i] They had been a child on the first Goblin Night when Madelyne Pryor had attempted to end the world. They hadn't done anything about it, merely watching and observing. It had been in the days when she had been convinced her destiny was to bring about darkness and misery. It had been ages later that Runa realized the universe was perfectly equipped to do so without her help. 

	They had blocked the first few blows with their staff. While they were blind, they were not defenseless. They had mastered the staff before their sight had failed them, and they had spent eons perfecting their technique after they lost it. It also helped that the demon attacking her - this "Madelyne" - was considerably noisy. 

	Runa drew a rune from her back - īsaz - and was about to press it into the demon attacking her when Prudence announced she had ensnared Madelyne's mind, and given ownership of it to Runa. Annika had already pleaded that Madelyne was under an enchantment. Runa assumed that Annika must have met Madelyne earlier in Limbo. Perhaps the demon had been pretending - perhaps not. Either way, Runa was wary to relinquish control. 

	They knew that a hero would release Madelyne. 

	[color=#a81a75]"Child, help us,"[/color] Runa instructed instead. Annika had specified that Holy Words and relics and whatnot would prove effective against these demons. Runa let the rune for ice slip from their fingers, falling back into the bag. Instead, they drew another one, feeling the stone pieces and the carving. ansuz. The rune of their grandfather - the All-Father Odin. 

	They held the rune in their palm, hand outstretched. 

[center][color=#a81a75]"Hei Odhinn, Herre av Asgard,
Kriger og vandrer, tapper og vis,
Du som alle Asgards guder ser på,
Himmelfar på den åttebeinte hesten,
Du som byttet øye med visdom
Og styrte et turbulent rike,
Gi oss visdom til å akseptere
Skjebnens vendinger
Selv om du overga deg selv
Til nornenes nåde.
Beskytt oss, All-Fader,
Fra hvilken skade kan komme til oss.
Led oss ​​gjennom villmarken
Og bringe oss trygt til den store salen
At du kun reserverer for de modige i ånden."[/color][/center]

	With each line, the rune began to glow brighter. By the time Runa reached the end of the prayer, of the invocation of Odin, it was blinding. To an infernal creature, it would be unbearable - it would be like bathing in the core of the sun, every atom of their being threatened to be consumed. But it would not only be the demons who were screaming. 

	The empty sockets that once contained Runa's eyes were streaming with fresh blood, an unsettling black goop. 

	Prudence would feel the flames burning within her soul. As would Madalyne. And Annika. And Max. 

	When the glow of the spell faded, the pain remained. Most of the demons that had been assaulting them were petrified. Runa collapsed to her knees, every inch of her body aching and crying out for relief. They imagined that they were falling into a dark pool, drowning, gasping for air but only managing to fill their lungs with water. 

	A horn sounded. The front gate of the castle opened. The next wave of demons emerged.