Mark of the Fool - Chapter 905: The Circle

... e—what had waited there was fire, death and Ravener-spawn. The goddess statues were there then, standing in defence of the silent chamber, their fire-beams blasting anything that moved. Worker-silence spiders had ambushed their unsuspecting party, coming up behind them, but the goddess statues had unknowingly saved their lives…even if they’d also come close to frying them in their fire-beams.

Hovering high above them back then was a single portal, open to an endless sky. Now, more portal ...