When Xanthippeia opened her portal from Dynodes all she could focus on was appearing next to Leodocus. Unfortunately, he was still unreachable in her mind so all she had to look forward to was darkness. And in that darkness, she could sense that she wasn't alone.
A deep almost animalistic growl sounded a small distance, it was too guttural and too familiar yet that didn't stop the fear from paralyzing her body including her eyes which she kept shut trying to hone in the rest of her senses.
'Leo, Leo please answer me!' she kept chanting and calling out to him in her mind when the growling grew closer. But it felt like she was shouting into an empty and desolate space.
So with nothing else to do but face whatever place she landed in and what monster awaited to feast on her bones. She slowly opened her violet eyes and noticed she was in fact in the underworld but outside the castle and focusing enough to see the beast coming to get her.
