"Who are you?"
The two inhuman forms stared back at him.
"I! Am Śmierch!"
He was lively, that was for sure.
So was the girl, she clapped and giggled like a maniac.
"I also am Śmierch! But my name is not hehe!"
"Now now, don't confuse the poor mortal!"
"Oh ok, take the fun out of it like you always do! My name is Liedan!"
She bowed as well, her Ashen hair hanging by her eyes.
Merek was stuck in a state of utter confusion.
"What are you?"
"Does it matter?"
The male whispered, making his comment seem more serious.
"We!"
The girl stuttered out sharply,
"Are lovers, or are we? Maybe we are brother and sister, or are we? Father and mother and you Master Sunsdéucae, our son!"
"Or are we!"
The male kicked in, causing them both to laugh malevolently.
"Sunsdéucae? What is that?"
Merek was even more confused now than before.
"Does it matter?"
"What are you doing here?"
Merek stood up, getting a better look at the two.
"Éthéré awaits you! You have been to Kzakeny!"
"No mortal has ever been there!"
Liedan exclaimed indignantly.
"You are not a mortal!"
Śmeirch cackled.
"We forgive you Merek, we are the passes between the worlds, the takers and givers if you die you will be the first to see us!"
Liedan kicked in whilst Śmierch carried on cackling.
"But I'm not dead?"
"Yet you went to Kzakeny, which is a place for the dead!"
The girl had such an odd voice as if it were not coming from her mouth.
"I am alive!"
"We know!"
Śmierch hollered,
"This is why we have not come for you, but we will meet again, you will die one day!"
"And yet, you will live!"
The girl bowed her head.
Merek was starting to lose track of which one was talking, each constantly taking the lead of the conversation.
"What do you mean I will die and live?"
"It does not matter, you are our master after all!"
"Master Sunsdéucae!"
They both bowed.
Their faces changed to a more serious look, their hands met and they spoke in unison,
"You have entered the world of the dead, Kzakeny! That world is for waiting, the dead wait to go into the past life or afterlife, yet you went there and came back to this world, the world of present life! The world of the living, this has caused many troubles! Only one portal for souls should be open in Kzakeny, the portal into the afterlife, yet you have opened another portal, a portal into this world!"
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The Ancient King
FantasyA region ravished by death and destruction, and being taken over by a force of brutality and cruelness, The Ancient King. As a famed mercenary is hired to track down this false king and save the land from his clutch. Or so he thinks.
