ONI
The woman in her EVA suit felt an odd fascination with the orb as she came closer like looking at the ruins of long gone civilizations, yet an untold amount of times stronger...
...and this time, the orb reacted, the swirling inside grew more intense, the space around the two of seemed to almost... flicker on the sensors, then as the woamn tried to grab the orb, or rather, as she passed with the orb through and came into direct contact... thinsg unfolded too quickly to perceive them with human eyes.
On the records it was later seen that the orb had unfolded, bloomed like some sort of flower, the petals forming into tentacles of red mist, they twitched for a brief moment, as if just realising the situation...
...and then impaled the woman, the very same moment, the mind of the woman shattered like a hollow orb of glass and voice, feeling similar to that on the other side of the gateway was heard by the crewmembers of all ships in the area...
"You have fooled us, mortals, but by contract you have paid your price. Heed our words: We shall remember this, should we ever cross paths again. Now receive the first part of the Prophecy..."
The voice of the beast which had been talking to them until now made place for something different, primordal, older than time, greater than space, they could not see it, or confirm it, but they could feel it. The words it uttered were completely alien to any of them and yet they all understood, almost instictively, as if this thing was talking in conceptual truths, rather than words...
As Light and Darkness fall,
Chaos will rise.
Judgement will be passed upon the world by the abandoned and fallen,
rising from the ashes of forgotten empires.
Then, the orb was gone, the woman was still alive, but her mind remained in pieces, like some cruel reminder of what had happened...
...and then there was silence, no orb, no tear, no tendril, no whisper.
The Crewmembers of the surrounding ships could feel that whatever had to happen, was over.
For now.
