"Do you think you can run away from us?" A raspy voice cackled to her hearing.
Sage gasped and opened her eyes to find herself back in the land of the sea of blood, but this time in the middle of the immobile blood sea. Her feet were bare but not sinking, and she felt as if she were standing on solid ground.
That voice sounded very familiar, and it was clear that it belonged to a Statkus mage, an elder Statkus mage.
"Who summoned me?" She asked, breathlessly, and looked around, but all she saw was the vast blood sea.
Could it be her mother?
"You can never run away from us!" The voice shrieked piercingly, and she realized where it was coming from.
When she saw a deathly pale hand emerge from the blood sea beneath her feet and grip her ankle, her heart skipped a beat and her eyes widened in terror.
Sage held her breath, unable to scream as terror engulfed her.
