[private entry]
Down, into the tunnels. He took his
no-dachi and two pairs of good, sharp knives. The guns he left behind. His backpack, with water, a notebook and a thin blanket were the only other things that he took. His goggles were in his leather longcoat. He didn't think he'd need them, but nexus magic was unpredicable, and he wanted to be able to see if he changed back into a man with normal, non-night vision.
Down. Past the giant spiders and snakes, rats and lizards and other strangeness, down farther than he'd ever been, farther than his brother had warned him to go. He got his fill of tooth and nail, hungry things that didn't mind that he smelled of
predator, blood and darkness. Down farther than echoes and shadows and light. He wondered absently if he'd see Eiko's machine, the one she'd said was humming away with no-one tending it.
Down, into the darkness, once and for all.