The darkness was already covering the sky with infinite number of glowing stars, for some reason each one of them seemed quite lonely.
Underneath this grim atmosphere a mortal human was getting abused by sheer pain and agony, the human was twitching and trembling on his own blood that covered the dirty ground.
Two shining gems fell off of his torn of backpack and a mysterious book that seemed shiny today for an unknown reason.
The human was under a pain so agonizing enough to make his brain stop thinking, now his head empty populated by screams echoing between his ears threatening to burst them open.
His movements seemed to resemble a fresh out of water taking a breath that'll just kill it.
The human shivered from side to side with each move giving him more pain, but also forces him to move more.
One of the two gems shined with bright light but the human didn't stop his movements.
A calming feminine voice sounded in his ears silencing his inner screams. The voice seemed ethereal almost existing from the east to the west, saying-
"Don't die now, I have more for you, he-he-he, you are in my debt "
As I heard that voice the pain and agony shivered and disappeared slowly leaving me in shock, unable to comprehend what happened.
Slowly but surely I started to regain my ability to think, and the first thing that came to mind is "what happened?" How am still alive?
I am still on the pudle of my blood still on the ground, I kept looking and gazing at the distance, the pain might have left but it left something behind, a scar.
I rested my head on the ground, the blood is already cold, and my head spinning none stop.
After a while I turned my head upward, at that second I saw that the moon had became less than half now already, It's going to disappeared soon.
I rested my hand on my chest the!! What is that?? I felt something solid ingrained in me chest, planted and as solid as glass
I perked up and too off my shirt!? Thar then I saw it, well the gem thar I have two off of, one of them is now in my chest, the skin and flesh surrounding the gem dark and wrinkled with deep grooves, it seemed like multiple deep injuries in my chest all leading to the center.
I was surprised horrified and a little disgusting, I almost vomited.
It looks like a tumor holding onto a gem, with the gem trying to plant itself as deep as possible.
So... who said those words? Obviously not Ciphr and I don't think the gem could talk... could it?
Well, if the gem could keep long dead animals alive than I guess... it could keep me alive.
How terrifying to think about, so basically my life is connected to this stone...
After pondering for a while I remember that the voice that seemed eerily human, said "you are in my debt" ...well, shit I guess, nothing good comes out of depth, especially not from an unknown entity capable of keeping someone alive.
I glanced at the dead Cerberus infant it was as motionless as a statue, but it's mere presence is enough to give me chills and shivers, I am sure I already got PTSD from this encounter.
But most importantly, if an infant was able to do me this badly what will the adult Cerberus do...
I shivered unable to stop my muscles from tensing, it was rather impossible not to feel terrified.
Each and every cell in my body is now ingrained with the feeling of fear and terror from Cerberus.
I looked at my stuff that fell from the torn bag, a book some fruits a knife a broken gem! wait the other gem is broken?!
I grabbed it's pieces inspecting it, after a while of looking at it with a surprised expression, at the end I found out nothing.
What happened? It is possible that this one got shattered to keep me alive, while the other just became a connection.
Either way I can't know for sure.
After eating and resting and thinking about it, my plan to leave is just more and more vital than ever, I must leave before Cerberus stops playing.
It is possible that those faceless deers and the Cerberus infant got made actually a long while ago, long before my first time going through the road.
I grimaced, turned my torn off backward into a small bag, I then started walking in a hurry towards the isolated old house.
As I was walking through the woods with careful and hurried steps, my brain started scaring me more and more, with the possibility that Cerberus is already there waiting, but... if you think about it is he actually not there watching me walking with horror in my eyes.
Cerberus really have been tormenting me none stop, even Ciphr wasn't... well, at least Ciphr isn't a death sentence yet.
With these thoughts abusing my cranium I didn't realize where I got, now in front of me is a river, a small one, that river is a special one because it leads to the old house, great am almost there.
All I have to do now is to reach the house then from there I can find my way to the wall of the city.
With that I set off while smiling, walking by the river side, and for the first time I didn't face any problem...