Sunny almost shuddered when he sensed the flotsam, but it was not the familiar piece of wood — a piece of the Chain Breaker's broken hull — covered by a mad weave of runes. Instead, it was a small fragment of a thick bone plate, fractured and covered in soot.
Sunny slowed down to observe the flotsam closely, then swam past it and moved further downstream.
As they advanced forward slowly, there was more and more debris in the water around them.
And then, they saw it…
The corpses.
There were dead Nightmare Creatures drifting in the water, cold and unmoving. Some seemed to have been crushed, others bore no visible wounds. One thing that united them all was that they were dead, and had been dead for a long, long time.
It was just that their flesh did not rot… because the waters of the Great River stood still, and therefore time had no power over them.
Sunny manifested his second incarnation on the back of the first one, standing close to Nephis.
"What happened here?"
