She had been sleeping somewhat peacefully before she was suddenly woken up by a trembling. But the trembling wasn't what woke her up, no. Umbra had raced in with an urgency and had practically thrown the Bone Queen out of her bed once the tremors got worse throughout the night. Groggy and bleary eyed, she stumbled out of her den before she saw what was going on. The scent of fear and panic came off of Umbra like ocean waves hitting the shore, and Medusa had no fucking clue why. As she eventually got herself to grips and shook sleep from her body, she looked up to find the sky had turned a strange red glow. Huh...interesting. Her ears perked as she saw others leaving Insomnia for either shelter or investigation, and she bet on the latter because, well...it was Insomnia. When the fuck were they ever cautious about anything? Welp, that decided it now, didn't it? Turning her gaze toward where others seemed to go, she spotted the stone points jutting into the sky, and of course she had to go see now because those definitely weren't there before! She tilted her head back and howled, letting others know where she was going as well as inviting them to join her should they wish, but she wasn't gonna wait. Even despite Umbra's protests, Medusa went to investigate, and her companion had no choice but to follow because no way in Hell was she going to let her Queen go it alone! The skeletal marked babe approached, dual-toned eyes wide with excitement and wonder as she tilted her head up to see just how tall these stones were! Like a child seeing a skyscraper for the very first time. Yep. They were big alright! She was even more curious to see how much taller than she was. With a wagging tail and a giggle, she approached the nearest spire, looking it up and down as she squinted at the weird carvings at its base, noticing the one that looked like a face contorted with...terror? Were these things...maybe alive? Somehow? Like the statues she had come across in the past? "Medusa, don't you dare touch a thi-" Too late. "Is the stone afraid of something?" She asked it as she reached up, almost as if embracing the spire. Not that she could wrap her forelegs all the way around, but hey, it was worth a shot to let it know she was here for it. "There, there. Medusa is here now!" She said, as she patted the stone as if it were a lost and scared pup.

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Head tilted as he watched Medusa leave in a hurry, Battery was quick to follow. He wasn’t sure if he was allowed to or not, but he didn’t care! The weird red sky and the urgency in her stride was enough to convince him, and so he followed her easily to the strange land of spires. Though, he really didn’t find it strange. He hallucinated things all the time, for all he knew this was just another one of them that everyone else was seeing too! Wouldn’t that be neat!?

Whether Medusa knew he followed or not, he approached behind her as she hugged the spire and wagged his tail. “Battery follow so Battery help! Is pointy rock feel sad?” He asked, excitement turning to curiosity and confusion as his head tilted once more, eyes flicking between Medusa and the top of the spire rapidly.

Speech ─ Think

─ by Skelle !

Was it strange that she was comforting an inanimate object? Probably. But some part of her told her that maybe this thing wasn't all that...inanimate as one might believe. After having seen a thing or two, she knew a thing or two. Weird shit happened all the time, and for all she knew, these things might be sentient. After all, weren't plants alive and even sentient to some degree? Maybe? She wasn't sure, but she wouldn't doubt it. She had run into sentient statues once upon a time, so she didn't throw any possibilities out of the window. Her attention turned to Battery when he spoke, her tail wagging when she spotted him. She looked between him and the spire as she returned all four limbs to the ground, head tilting as she looked up at the spire. "Medusa thinks so! Look here," She pointed at the terrorized face on the webbed stone. "Medusa thinks it's afraid of something, but she doesn't know what." She concluded that it had to be afraid of something, right? Why else would that face be there?