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He had tossed him into the void land like throwing trash into a pit and had not thought about him again.
It had not even been that long.
A little over one week. Not two weeks yet.
"Why does he look like that?"
Sekhmet's jaw tightened.
Auri turned when she sensed him close.
"Master," she said quickly. "We found the ghoul you asked us to find."
Sekhmet's eyes did not leave the starving creature.
"I can see that," he replied quietly.
Auri's voice lowered slightly, respectful, but urgent.
"He was hiding," she said. "Not because he was smart. Because he was weak. The bats sensed him by smell. He has been… deteriorating."
Sekhmet stared at the ghoul again. He activated Blood Eye. The world shifted. Information rose.
But the information was not the part that disturbed him. What disturbed him was how empty the ghoul felt.
Like a candle that had almost burned to the wick.
Then the system spoke inside his mind, answering what he had not even asked aloud.
[System Analysis.
