Moonstone Quarry don't leave the lights on

discovering rhode's body.

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the faint reflection of an aurora borealis lit the evening sky. the quarry was far from the tundra so the colors were muted, lost somewhere along the way. light reflected off of the stones at the mouth of the quarry illuminated the entry.

there was a series of halls, each one one leading to the central cavern. it was wide, open; at its center sat an array of pools with the bluest water moriah had ever seen. she wandered aimlessly in the gaps between, bouncing from one thin pathway to the next.

she sang soft notes to fill the silence.

a body lay torn apart at moriah's feet. it was in the stage of putrefecation, its foul odor having attracted a swath of insects. it had obviously been torn apart soon after death; the skull was destroyed, one eye removed and deflated some feet from the corpse's resting place. 

the death was more recent than the last but showed signs of advanced decomposition. are you lonely? she asked. there was no one else hear and there hadn't been for some time. moriah wondered if he'd been scared.