The beta staggered to his feet. His body was warped, and his face was unrecognisable now that his skin had split open to reveal glowing cracks across his skull. His voice had turned layered with something not his own, but it now carried the chaos they had been suppressing all along. The air around the banquet hall turned static, as if it had been turned on with something more than just the molecules of the air. The glowing lights on the ceiling flickered and turned into flaming torches; the marble pillars shifted into old and dilapidated wooden pillars.
"Magic," hissed his beast, sneezing louder than ever once the veil that had been covering the entire space disappeared.
"You cannot stop us. You cannot stop our lady! Every child that we have fed The Great One feeds her flame and power. Every sacrifice that was handed to her makes us stronger. Immortal. Kill one, and another one will rise from her shadows!"
