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Voreese just gave a skeletal shrug and turned back toward Rezolo, who continued on.

‘I do not believe this is the work of a feldeath,’ he said. ‘But I do think it is dangerous. Are you at all familiar with the recent arrivals of Chaos in this world?’

There was a pause.

Then Garovel picked things up for everyone. ‘Now when you say “chaos,” do you mean the general concept or the inner aspect of the Void?’

‘The latter. The generalized concept of chaos is not a recent arrival in the world at all. Would you not agree?’

‘I would. But I’d just like to be clear here. So you’re talking about, what exactly? Chaos entities? Otherworldly beings?’

‘Indeed,’ said Rezolo. ‘Does that mean you are not familiar with them?’

‘Unfortunately, we very much are,’ said Voreese. ‘Had an encounter with a pretty powerful one not too long ago.’

‘I see. And perhaps you’ve also heard a few rumors of late? About more appearances of such creatures?’

‘Perhaps we have,’ said Voreese. ‘You sayin’ this darkness is the work of another one of those?’

‘Not necessarily. It is a domain of sorts, I believe. Or a nesting ground, if you will. There may be nothing here now, but perhaps there soon will be. I cannot claim to know the details of how it all works, but as I understand it, places such as this can... “invite” otherworldly creatures into this one.’

Hmm. Was he talking about geographic resonance, Hector wondered? Maybe he only knew the concept and not the terminology. It made Hector curious about how Rezolo might’ve come by such knowledge.

Whatever the case, that explanation did make a large amount of sense to Hector, even if the reaper seemed to be getting some of the details wrong. The Beast of Lorent had also been tied to a point of geographic resonance, hadn’t it? Though, was that because the point itself had invited the Beast in? Or because the Beast had actually created the point in the first place?

As Hector recalled the visions that Pauline Gaolanet had been able to show him regarding the Beast’s history, it seemed more likely that it was the Beast’s own terrible past that had brought about the geographic resonance of that particular location.

Maybe that was assuming too much, though. Hard to be certain.

But if the assumption was correct, then it would mean that, here and now, there was indeed something already waiting for them in this darkness.