139 A Fool He Was Not

When Mother-Bound-In-Stars and her royal entourage reached a certain depth, the dazzling spectacle that the queen put on ended and her subjects departed. They that the final part of the voyage was beyond their capabilities, even for them, the noble lords of the deep sea.

Only their empress had the strength to venture into the deepest regions of the Centlani deep without fear of certain death. It would have been a death sentence for them had they followed her any further.

Down below, where the seafloor lay, existed a region of pure chaos and unending conflict. The bottommost layer of the Centlani Deep was a place reserved for monsters. A den for creatures of unprecedented ferocity and cunning; only the strongest were permitted to survive at the bottom, where prey was scarce and always in demand.