spelled my name in finger bones

The godling hadn't been aware of the siren song of the translucent crystals slowly pulling him closer, inch by treacherous inch with a slow dragging of his paws over the dark stone floor. Not until one of the sharp facets of a glowing gem sliced open the pad of his left forepaw, drawing blood just as easily as the first. He hissed a sharp breath through clenched teeth, and that now-familiar scream seemed to echo through his brain cavity. It pulled an unbidden groan from deep in his chest, which tapered off into a soft whimper. This cavern would be their tomb if the two of them didn't get out soon. He turned his paw over to inspect the damage, and felt a horrified gasp pulled from his throat as if by spectral claws. That pale blue light was trickling from the fresh wound on his paw.. or... was it? Almost as soon as he could identify the familiar sight, the glow seemed to turn to a shine, and when he tipped his paw another direction the light seemed to slide off the pooling blood on his dark pad and drip onto the floor. Perhaps it was just a trick of the light, and he was more affected by the thrum of adrenaline in his veins than he'd previously anticipated.

Lifting two toned eyes to his sister, a wave of fresh shock tripped up his spine. "Faith!" he yelped, lunging forward with little regard for the sharp pain in his paw as he stepped down. The spit slick crystal seemed to shine anew as his sister pulled her head back just a hair, the glassy surface of her hollow gaze seeming to drink in the blue glow. "Faith, stop!" the boy cried out, dark lips peeling away from his fangs as he sought to bump her shoulder with his own rather harshly. He needed to get her out of here, it seemed she was being enthralled by the strange crystals far more than he. Tucking his head beneath her neck, he tried to push her head up and away from the cluster of gems that was claiming the entirety of her focus. "We need to go, this place is cursed!" he grunted through his teeth, fighting to redirect his beloved sister before she did herself more harm by messing around with the crystals.

"Pontifex" || "Hallux" || "others"