The hearts of the three were still beating furiously when their eyes adjusted to allow them to see that they had been teleported to a dark room.
A musty smell, akin to one that would appear when a place hadn't been visited for eons and eons was present, and Faxul had even begun coughing as it entered his nostrils.
Daneel first cast a spell to get rid of the putrid air around him, before conjuring a globe of light that revealed to them an extraordinary image.
They were in a small room, with a single door in front of them that was artfully carved with various Godbeasts that were so life-like that they looked like they would e to life at any second.
Tasteful furniture could be seen all around, and it looked like this was some sort of reception area that those who were entering a place would be housed.
Thick layers of dust had caked over everything, though, and even the walls only had a few signs of the tapestry that had once proudly adorned with this place.
Almost as one, all of their eyes became fixed on a particular corner of the room, where there was a table that almost looked like one that would be present in front of a receptionist back on earth.
And the reason behind their astonishment… Was the woman who stood behind it, smiling.
"Wele to Elysium! I see that yours is an unscheduled arrival. Please stand by while I intimate the weling party. Your re…"
Suddenly, she froze, and in the next moment, something that startled the life out of all three of them happened.
BOOOMMM!
With a loud sound, the woman burst into nothingness, but instead of covering them with the remains of her mutilated body, there was only a curtain of dust that fell over them all.
Yet, her image was still fixed in their minds.
She had been wearing a light pink colored dress, but it, too, just like everything else in the room, had been in a state of severe neglect.
Her face had been the most striking of it all: it had looked exactly like one that belonged to someone who had somehow been dead for a long, long time before suddenly waking up and not even bothering that their body had rotted over time.
"What the hell, Daneel?
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