[Area] BL▲CK BUBBLE

Medi's blood tendrils manage to grab link Seth and get some sorta hold onto the edge. The bond seems fairly strong.
With the added assistance, link Seth is able to grab onto the edge and hold on. Medi most likely as well.
He looks over on the "safer side". A bit of a drop if they can get over to it, but it sure beats getting turned into a smoothie.

Link Seth accesses his item menu modus and equips the roc's feather. He uses it to give himself a boost in acrobatic ability. He kicks off the edge and does a front flip over and out of the gaping maw of the wood chipper. He continues to hold onto the blood tether, pulling Medi over the edge to relative safety with him.

They fall a remaining 15 feet to the carpeted ground below. Thanks to roc's feather, link Seth is able to land lightly on his feet. He attempts to catch Medi.

The timeslow wears off and Link Seth stumbles back trying to keep his balance. He winds up falling over backwards onto the floor.
At least she's safe.
He manages to keep himself together, barely. Link Seth sits there for a few minutes before doing anything. He definitely didn't expect her to be that heavy.
"We made it..."

It's at this point that link Seth remembers that the two of them were already dead anyways.
He wonders if they were even in any danger at all upon entering this room.

Besides the large wood chipper in this rather tall room, there is a doorway leading to some sort of hallway.

Red light from the blood red moon shines through the window as the wood chipper continues to idle, waiting patiently for a victim to feed it's mechanical gullet.

After Medi has gotten off of him, Link Seth slowly gets back up. That long moment was enough for him to clear his thoughts for the most part.
Most of what he was thinking had to do with how nice Medi is, to save him from being ground up, without even having to have a reason or motive. It's kind of tragic that they've only really gotten to spend time with each other after they have both lost their lives.

And it's all Chronos's fault.

Link Seth's anger reignites upon being reminded of that.

He storms ahead to the doorway, before doubling back to walk with Medi. He offers his hand to her.
There's a sense of intensity from him, restrained enough to be gentle, but clearly holding something back.

Link Seth walks with her, silently accepting her preference not to hold hands.
They make their way out the door and into a hallway.

He remembers that time the two of them watched the sun rise together back on koholint. It was a beautiful time, but she was so nervous that she ran off and forgot her mace.
The cursed one Chronos gave her.

Why had he been so driven to give it back to her? Why did link Seth go through all the trouble to contact her and deliver it the next time they crossed paths?

Was it out of devotion to her?
Or to his father?

Link Seth turns to face Medi while walking down the hall. She seems quite... blue.
Does she perhaps feel some sort of blame in this?
"Medi, I want to thank you for saving me earlier. Not very many people have shown me kindness in my lifetime... I will not rest until we get our revenge against Chronos. You won't have to be mired in sorrow after we're done here. He will pay for what he's done. I promise."

The hallway opens up to an outside bridge between towers. Looking up, the two of them can see there's a ways up, but it's not nearly as far away as it looked from the bottom. The face of a clock stares down at them.
It is 3:30.
Whether am or pm is unknown, but the blood moon shines on.
Looking over the edge of the bridge, it can be seen that they are at quite a dizzying height, towers striking down into the canopy of the dense complex. Upon the horizon, a boundless range of sharp mountain peaks without ice nor snow blanket on as far as the eye can see. If you were to stare at the dark cloud streaked sky for long enough, the faint haze of the prismatic dreamscape beyond this one can barely be seen.

The bridge itself is quite short and an open doorway lays waiting on the other end.

Link Seth and Medi arrive in the next room. It's rather large and circular with a spiral staircase along the wall, going up to impressive heights. The ticking of a clock can be heard, amidst the muffled turning of numerous unseen cogs and gears.

Long golden chains with weights hanging on the end hang in the center of the towering room.
The floor is a star studded dark tile with various constellations etched between prominent points in the night sky. They seem to be the ones that would be visible in the western skies back on Earth.

Something small and hard to track appears to be scampering along the walls...

"who the fuck knows... Somewhere out there, there's probably a perfectly happy version of us, but we're obviously not that lucky. We have to deal with the shitty hand we were dealt." Link Seth scans the area.
The elusive figure wanders into his vision just long enough to be spotted.
"...there's something here."
Link Seth equips a bow and arrow. A price tag dangles from the bow.
He pulls back on the bow and waits for that thing to scamper into his path.
He slows down time to increase his accuracy.

An arrow goes flying towards the odd figure upon the wall.

A squealing noise can be heard as the arrow hits its target and time is returned back to normal speed.
The scrawny figure falls off of the wall and onto the staircase.
It's still twitching slightly.

Link seth puts his bow and arrow away and pulls out his level 1 scythe. He glances at Medi before resuming to stare at his target not too far away.
"Let's see what he sent after us." Link seth begins to calmly walk to the stairs.

Link seth cautiously steps towards the staircase. The word THIEF is etched into the handle of his scythe for some odd reason.

The prone figure continues to twitch, arrow sticking out of it. It appears to be some sort of dry and wrinkly imp with white horns and a green vest.

Link seth approaches, ready to swing...
and before he can react, the creature suddenly springs off the ground and clings to him with its scrawny but dexterous claws!
"AAAAGH! GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME!" Link seth drops his scythe and attempts to pry the imp off of him! It hisses as it scratches and grabs at him with expert precision!


What will you do?