Out of the stone was pulled… an unbeating heart of a creature foreign to the world of Galbar. With a flash of divine power, she pulled her quarry out of the stone. It was veritable agony, she wished for nothing more than to let go, but her own knowledge told her that her catch was valuable. She reached out to the stone, plunging her hand into it. That was her prize, and she felt something inside. From there, she slowly entered, eyes fixed on the black, unfeeling void of a stone that stood before her. Then, she hit them with a powerful curse of force, slowly creaking them open. She looked it over - almost with disdain. Soon enough, Lazarus was in place in front of the gates.
They told the psykers of what they found, and in turn, the psykers told Lazarus. The dwarves turned and fled, deep into the maze of tunnels that made up the citadel.
Once again a feeling of unease flooded through them. The eyes of hundreds of skull stared down at them, judging and accusing. The shells of Hain, the rocky bones of Urtelem, the fragile wings of Angels, the massive bones of the Brush Beasts, they were all there. They were inlaid with the skeletons of every creature in existence. Massive doors, hundreds of feet high, gleaming white in the black stone around them. They stopped when they finally reached their destination. Strangely enough, not a hint of frost touched the stone around them. The energy seemed to be sapped from them, every step along the obsidian black stone becoming more and more of a struggle. Their breath misted in the air, their equipment gained a light layer of frost, and they felt it in the aching of their bones. It was always cold underground, but this fell to degrees far lower than they should have been. A feeling of unease flooded through them, a definite sense of they should go back. The silence mingled with the oppressive darkness, pressing in on all sides. There wasn’t a scuttling bug, a drip of water, a flap of wings in the darkness, there was nothing.
That was the first thing that hit them as they entered the cavern.
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