As the ground shifted and moved, several of the Soundless cultists' bodies became transparent as they moved into the aspect of silence, but very quickly, their bodies reappeared in the air.
Their faces were horrifyingly twisted, their veins almost popping out from beneath their skins, their bodies then rapidly withered and turned into dried-up solid masses.
The thing that was hiding in the shadows also revealed its true self: a large number of roots.
The greatest strength of the Soundless Cult was their ability to move into the other aspect of reality. In that other aspect, living life forms would become shadows, non-living objects, while non-living objects in the real world would become living lifeforms.
