A Darkness

Veran looked through every trail, tree, and grove to find what the Seika asked of him. However, it was no easy feat to look around when a voice told you to kill your best friend.

'He will betray you,' the voice whispered when Veran looked at Kaza, who was climbing a tree for a vantage point. 'You need to eat him before he eats you.'

"That's a weird one," muttered Veran in amusement. At first, he thought that the voice was his own and that he was a vile and rotten man. Then, however, a past incident proved otherwise. Something was whispering within him, and Veran called it Void.

Void would tell him to commit heinous crimes and sometimes even push him into doing them. However, something else helped him resist the voice, and he believed that thing was Kaza's presence.

"There is a carriage ahead," Kaza reported before jumping down. "I believe they are merchants with a broken carriage. Let's go there and help."