The divinity willingly given required no deliberate absorption and thus became an integral part of the Outlander.
Beneath the sea, the silver Desecration Element flickered on the increasingly vast Ring of Fate, indistinguishable from the cold silver moonlight.
"She" who should have spoken long ago only whispered by Shard's ear at this moment, with a very gentle voice:
[Falling into the abyss, drowning in the deep sea. No one knows the solitude before death, no one knows the despair of falling alone. The cold heart is not a gift from the world; it is simply because one glimpsed the inevitable conclusion that is coming. You understand Her, yet She knows you are also Her. Outlander, are you truly that lonely?]
He seemed to be embraced from behind by someone, but Shard knew he would see nothing if he turned around.
[Outlander, you have absorbed the divinity of the Old God "God of the Deep Sea Drowned," you have felt the Desecration.]
