After wandering additional, Prim got here throughout a crater many miles throughout. The edges have been easy, like glass, and curved inwards, down right into a steadily rising darkness, the place on the backside Prim may barely see a gap. The gap was extraordinarily disagreeable to take a look at. Not a single mote of sunshine touched it. As she took on this unsettling sight, Prim was shocked to see the distant figures of individuals, crawling up the sting of the crater, and steadily however inevitably sliding into the large gap, the place they have been swallowed.
A croaking cough emerged a brief distance away from Prim, and she or he beheld an unbelievably filthy and emaciated previous man, who was clothed solely in a ragged sheet draped over his head and physique. He had a workers, like a shepherd, and it was damaged on the tip.
“What is this place?” mentioned Prim, making an attempt to cover her disgust.
The man moist his dry lips, and mentioned, “This is the end of the road. Or one of its ends anyway.” He motioned to the opening.
“The hole?” mentioned Prim.
“If you go into the hole,” mentioned the person, “you will very definitely die. Your entire existence will be permanently obliterated, almost instantly. It is very painful and causes tremendous scarring. The filth from your obliterated corpse will spread into the air like ash and sicken people for years.”
“It’s not the cleanest way to reach the end,” he mentioned, hacking out a dry cough, “but its very easy.” He leered at Prim with a brown-toothed smile, as if anticipating her to agree.
Prim left instantly.
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