“How can the reality be worse than this?” Unless the Crypt Keeper did exist, and it was possessing people like she suspected. But he killed that thought in a second. “The bones outside. The fall that created this ecosystem, the spot that seemed so perfect for a settlement.” Derision cut Leon’s expression. “This wasn’t a sea creature. There is no leviathan. There were two ancient beings, and Aeris killed Lumos and left its corpse here to rot.” Leon laughed, cold and disbelieving, and rubbed a hand over his face. “And then you all went and set up a mining operation in its fucking brain.”
