185 Let Thy Love Turn A Cruel Man Into A Saint

Deep-scan Incursion Information Purge (D.I.I.P) — A cognitive therapy technique created to peer in the depths of an afflicted mind and remove problematic memory clusters associated with psychological disorders. Pioneered in 10008 T.C by Ashal-til Uuto. 

Nothing had changed in the last four months since they had arrived. They were at an impasse. 

The royal lifeweavers had tried everything at their disposal, but nothing had worked. Some of them blamed the limitations they were beholden to, while others blamed only themselves for not anticipating the possibility and preparing for it. 

An unstable spheroid of darkness hovered in a dark place beneath the island of Citlai. 

It was a flesh without form. If anything, it'd be safer to say that flux was its form. A hundred sleeping eyes not yet opened. Dreaming of nothing. It was the herald of a terrifying future. 

It was Reed.