The moment the pendant slipped from Aiden's grasp, the scene before his eyes twisted with the surrounding mist, quickly fading until it disappeared completely, and his office once again appeared before him.
The sound of Abigail's voice pouring into his ears stopped abruptly, but Aiden's mind was still echoing with the words she had said, like a melody that emerged out of nowhere on a normal day, relentlessly repeating over and over again.
Aiden was at all incapable of understanding the sounds coming from Abigail's mouth, but he could clearly identify it as a language.
A language... that humans couldn't possibly utter, nor could they begin to comprehend.
Yet, these words carried a terrifying magic power, forcing his mind to understand.
It was as if an undecipherable garble had been forcefully inserted into the smoothly running code, irremovable, impairing his ability to think normally...
Can't understand... Can't understand... Error... All errors...
