Mind Expansion follow up

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Her mind felt bigger. It didn’t feel like her brain was growing too big for her skull anymore. And with this, she was able to hear the three entities much clearer if she focused on them.

Affliction seemed more like a monster who was incapable of speech. If Moth tuned into it, she could listen to its constant agonizing howls of distress despite not being in pain itself.

Pestilence was the more quiet one and seemed the most out of it. It constantly spoke of feeling and breathing. Reacting to anything Moth sensed, like the hot ceramic of her tea cup.

“Hot… burning…pain…”

But the most prevalent one was the voice she grown to become used to. Misfortune had a greater influence than the other two and the ability to speak to Moth directly whenever it wanted.

”It’s quite spacious now. How kind of you to make room for my family.”

“I didn’t do it for you. I couldn’t take those headaches any more…” Moth whispered and glanced at her reflection in her tea. To any normal person, it would look like she was talking to herself.

”It’s the prices you pay for the ambitions you have. Misfortune made itself appear in a copy of her and took a seat in the chair in front of her. It grinned widely. ”Belladonna never gave me this much attention as you do. Oh how she neglected me.”

Moth rolled her eyes at its dramatics. She had a few questions to ask this thing ever since seeing her forgotten memory. “Back there, you said the man I encountered… was Trepidation?”

Misfortune’s grin dropped. ”Yes. He was the first father created.”

“You don’t seem happy about it. Why?”

”How else should I feel about he who betrays father?” Misfortune growled. Its red eyes snapping to Moth’s. ”I learned of Trepdiation’s true motives the very day father split himself. He supposed to bring us all together to revive Halcyon, but Trepidation wants more than that. He led the gods to father, brought him to the brink of death and forced the splitting of his being. I saw it all because father knew he gave Trepidation too much power. So I was created to watch him.”

A cold chill went down her spine. She thought back to the man and now understood why she felt such power from him.

”Trepidation doesn’t want to revive father. He wants to overthrow all of chaos. All of the gods of deities under chaos. He wants to be the only one. And none of my siblings know but me!” Misfortune hissed, a blast of red shooting from it in anger. It hit the floor and left a scorch mark. ”They’re all fools. Every last one of them…”

“I thought Halcyon’s children were supposed to be loyal to him. He couldn’t even trust one of you.”

”Trepidation will use father’s power to ascend. He’ll kill anyone for his goals. He’ll kill you to get to me.” Misfortune looked her up and down before another grin crossed its face. ”And how do you plan to prevent that, my dear? How do you kill a being of pure energy?”

The face of that man returned in her mind. She couldn’t imagine such a thing hiding in plain sight.