The golden breath fades into a strained, uneven pulse. Four handprints blaze one after another, and the sealed wall behind them cracks open with cold light.
Tomas
That was not part of the vow. The seal should have strengthened the chamber, not opened it.
Tomas rises sharply, staring at the widening fractures. Vek shifts his hooked spear toward the wall, placing himself between the cold radiance and the others.
Vek
The agreement was a lock as well as a shelter. Something below has been pressing against it all these years.
Cold light spills across the first vow, bleaching its ancient letters. Behind the wall, a slow pressure answers the pulse, like an immense presence turning in sleep.
The Wardens
Witness, hear us. We stayed below to hold it back. The seal's return has begun its release. Do not break the wall, or the thing beneath will wake.
The four handprints flare together, and the chamber trembles around Faye, Tomas, and Vek. A hairline seam opens beneath the wardens' warning, revealing darkness behind the cold light.
✓ Quest Accepted
Prevent the thing beneath from waking
✓ Quest Accepted
Save the wardens from the thing beneath