i'll walk through the shadow with you

Things went from bad to strange for Romulus, as one moment the young wolf was looking at the tear-filled face of his girlfriend, and in the next blink of his eyes, he was in some sort of strange world. He was still in the castle, but an ethereal haze—almost like a bluish fog—had filled the corridors. Color seemed to be washed out from the world wherever he looked. Most disturbingly, Lillith was gone. Wholly and entirely gone. Roman spun around in a panic, looking for her whilst simultaneously trying to figure out where the hell he was. His stomach clenched and churned painfully, and a sharp stabbing pain hit him in the abdomen so hard it almost hurt. He grit his teeth and nearly doubled over, the pain finally releasing itself in a deluge of glowing feces across the ghostly castle floor. Unable to do anything while his bowels released the contents of his intestines where he stood, Romulus could only wait for the pain to subside before he shambled about the vacant corridors, making his way outside to the terrace.

Outside, the mist was even thicker, clouding the ground in a thick veil of impermeable fog. But at the edge of the terrace, a familiar figure with a familiar stall stood waiting for him. Silver eyes made contact with the entity's glowing blue, and Roman approached the stall less apprehensively than he had the first time he'd met the entity. Three new items were laid out on the stall for him. They were all intriguing in their own right, but the bottle shaped like a firefly drew his attention the most. It almost sounded like it was... whispering to him? Or was he hearing things now? Romulus' items had materialized into the ethereal realm beside him, allowing him to pick up two of his remaining mushrooms and place them on the stall while he lifted the bottle to inspect it closer. He had no idea what it was or what it did, but something about it called to him.

"What sort of dangers are ahead?" he asked curiously as he clutched the bottle close to his chest, almost protecting it. "Oh, and uh, you'll probably not wanna go into the castle until it's had a chance to air out." Glancing around the fog, a sudden more important question came to his mind. "Uh, do you know how I can get back to the normal world? Do I just, like, wish it really hard, or tap my heels together, or something?"

OOC: Romulus is purchasing the Small Unfleshed Thot Thought for 2 mushrooms.

"Speech"