[A/N: This bonus chapter is thanks to OfcSoccer4. Man, you're amazing and the best. Thank you so much.]
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The violet light gathered into two long seams above the basin, and the seams thickened into closed eyelids.
No face appeared around them.
Each eye stretched a little farther than Velmora had from one outer wall to the other. Pale points moved across their surfaces, passing behind dark spheres surrounded by thin rings of light.
The last threads of tribulation lightning drifted beneath them.
The eyes did not flicker with the discharges.
They were not made from lightning.
Simon could see folds along the closed lids. Shadows gathered within them, giving the impossible structures a depth that made them seem horribly real.
Then the pressure reached him.
His calm and light smile disappeared.
The six wings behind his back drew closer. A tremor passed through their ivory spars, and the vents along their membranes stopped moving for an instant.
