After being thrown from his ship while attempting to sail the seven seas, Halo ended up in dire straits, stuck in a bizarre, incomprehensible forest.
He'd thought he'd seen it all until he encountered an invisible creature. Well, "encountered" was generous. 'Brutally beaten by an invisible creature' was more like it.
This wounded Halo's pride. He'd been many things, but never someone so thoroughly humiliated. Days later, as he lay recovering in his makeshift shelter atop a root, he couldn't stop thinking about that crystal, the one he'd been beaten for.
To make matters worse, he woke up to two giant wolf-like creatures, entirely conjured with entangled vines and leaves.
The creatures came to kill him. He'd killed one recently, but now they were the least of his worries. If the Sinners were so protective of those crystals, then he had even more reason to find them.
