Where am I? Adyr wondered as he looked around.
A heartbeat ago, he had been in the Legacy Domain, running from the Serpent. The last clear memory was the Synergy Crystal on his tongue. Pain like a hammered spike burst behind his eyes, and then he opened them to this unfamiliar place.
"No… I know this place." He murmured the words as he narrowed his eyes and tried to make sense of the dark.
The smell hit first: sour rot braided with garbage, thick enough to pound at his headache. The walls were familiar too, old and filthy, the plaster blackened by damp.
Ahead, a cramped kitchen sagged under dust, and beside it stood a butcher's table streaked with dried blood.
"Why the hell am I here?"
It was the basement from his previous life, the pit where he had grown up in dirt and agony.
His headache surged, and when he tried to lift a hand to rub his temples, a weight held it down. He turned, and a curtain of dirty blond hair filled his vision; a small head was resting on his shoulder.
