How It All Goes Down
World Apart
- Through Brimstone's door, Karou enters a whole new world. Don't you dare close your eyes, girl.
- It's a brand new place she never knew. Two moons, huge fortress walls, a city covered in iron bars "as if they existed within a cage" (17.8).
- Karou thinks she's high up in a tower, and now from way up here, it's crystal clear, that she's in a whole new world... alone. And it's kind of creepy, what with the winged creatures flying around.
- Voices travel down the hallway: Brimstone and Twiga. Karou hides, and they don't see her.
- She follows them down a long spiral staircase into a cathedral.
- Instead of people kneeling in prayer, however, it is filled with stone slabs, and on each one, there's a dead chimaera.
- Karou sneaks over to investigate one of them: a muscular white wolf man.
- As if this wasn't strange enough, she notices that his palms have the same eye tattoos as hers do.
- She holds her hand next to the wolfman's. "His hand […] it was warm. It was not dead. He was not dead" (17.5-17.53).
- Before you can say eep, the wolfman wakes up and grabs Karou.
- He slams her onto the stone table.
- All she can do is scream.