Graphic (gore, death)

Again, another wave of pain split into his own mind, challenging him to release her; but he bit down, calling on necrotic spores to break down the tissue surrounding her bone. He didn't care how long it would take, he would take her whole skeleton with him if he needed to, but he was leaving with her stone one way or another.

His anger was perhaps too much fuel, and the necrosis spread through her body like a wildfire, eating her away in a bubbling mess of blood and flesh, tinted with the greenish-black of rot. When her stone was free enough, Astraea gave one last pull, breaking her breastbone free from her still disintegrating body. His fungi retreated back to him, carrying the broken piece of bone in a wave of fungal matter, and dropped it at his feet.

Meanwhile, his eyes found the pup again; they were narrow, sinister, and threatening. "I will kill you too," came his voice, a guttural sound from deep within his chest, "if you choose to spread this... information. Confirm that you understand."

Tethys watched in horror, as she watched the lifeless body of the owl spread through the water. She was horrified, and tears continued to fall from her face. This was too much for the child to see. Tethys could not believe that this deer would threaten to kill her, she was just a child! Her voice trembeled as she spoke, trying hard not to look at Aetius's body. She nodded at Astraea's words. "I understand! I promise not to tell anyone!" Tethys remembered Aetius telling her that she had a daughter. Tethys would make sure to tell Zutar what happened to her mother. But, she would keep her promise to Astraea not to tell anyone this information. She looked at Aetius's stone for a second, then her eyes darted towards the water. "I'm sorry." She didn't dare move until she was sure the deer was ok with letting her leave. She realized that the masters of the cave were sketchy, and evil in a sense. But, what was Astraea going to do with the owl's stone?

@Game Master CJ

He did not care that she was sorry; he knew, in some part of his mind, that it was not her fault. But he hated the idea of others coming up to him and asking him why he was a fucking deer. His eyes settled on the breastbone and he lifted a hoof over it, slamming down once, then again with both hooves, to shatter it. Perhaps he had hit just the right spot with just the right amount of his weight, because the bone broke into pieces beneath him, leaving the complicated topaz stone free from the memory of the owl.

Dipping his head to pick up the stone with his teeth, Astraea gave one last look at the seal pup; he had nothing more to say to her. She understood the consequences. He picked up the stone and turned, leaving to find Nemean as his next priority.

(exit)

Tethys was too scared to stick around. She was frightened, but she was determined to tell Zutar how awful the masters can be. She went underneath the water and swam away, too scared to look back. Tethys would knew one thing, she would never trust the masters again after this. She swam off, in a desperate attempt to find Zutar, and tell her what Astraea had done.

-Exit Tethys