Beyond nature

As I was finally on a horizontal ground I peaked through the wide opening...

A ghost was walking in circles on the calm waters of a small lake, in a white room-like cave.

The walls were decorated with skeletons, each one was hanging off of a chain that scenes was strangely familiar...

On the waters, in the middle of the lake stood a strange stone pillar that reached a human hight, on top of it a skull with two eye that for some cursed reason are still moving and looking around.

The eyes had only pupils with no irises, only a small black dot on a white sphere.

The ghost that was singing a hypnotic melody suddenly stopped, then tuned it's head towards me with a weird angle.

Instinctively I tuned around to run away, obviously turning around inside a cave will take a time, enough for two ghostly chains to wrap around my feet.

Ignoring the chains, I crawled through the cave then I started climbing in an upward angle, to where I came from.

The chains didn't pull on my legs for some reason, I didn't care I just kept going forward...

After a few seconds I heard a... melody, my head slowly got dizzy and then second by second, my vision slowly faded and before I lose consciousness I felt the pull of the chains...

The song echoed through the vast empty caves.

As I opened my eyes, I was already shackled with the ghostly chains wrapped around me.

Standing in front of me was.. a ghost, it looked like a beautiful woman with no eyes, and she was covered with multiple pieces of white fabrics.

Looking down I saw no feet, only four protruding bones uncovered by flesh, two from each leg with sharp ends.

Her hands were the same, her forearms were there but at the end of the forearm there is only two bones with sharp tips.

Flesh only covered three quarters of the bones in her forearm, the part with flesh was pierced by ghostly chains, as well as her legs, thus she also was just like me shackled in a sense.

Her ghostly body was mostly transparent, thus I could see what's behind her... the walls.

Her teeth were quite sharp.

She spoke with a charming voice-

"It's been a long time since the last mortal visitor... I got a little lonely.. you know"

I couldn't speak for a few seconds, her voice was too hypnotic.. yet I pulled myself back and spoke-

"Why am I chained, I didn't intənd to come here"

A second later she replied with a smile-

"Well... you see, I have a job here, I must deal with mortals like you who desire my two treasures"

I was shocked for a few seconds, not just because of her melodic hypnotizings... after a few seconds I replied-

"You.. what are you talking about??"

She stood motionless for a while as if stunned then said-

"Oh... hmm, in that case I am not obligated to kill you... thats good, oh I have an idea then"

My eyes widened as I stared at her, she continued-

"Hey, what about a deal, a trade? What do you think?"

I stood silent for a while then I spoke-

"What type of dəal??"

- "well, I have an example.

I get your eyes, which I want, in exchange for... ten days of suffering, hmm, yeah that's a great deal" then she smiled at the last word.

I was shook, unable to speak but then I said with a louder voice-

"What kind of shitty deal is this?? What am even gaining here?"

- "oh but it's a fair trade, I get your eyes, and you get to become stronger after pain"

She grinned.

'Fuck'

I then replied-

"I am gaining nothing here, what about another offer?"

She replied-

"Hmm... ok, I get your eyes, and you get twenty days of torture, that's my best deal, I'll have to work hard you know"

I wad stunned completely shook, after a few seconds I replied-

*sigh* "I could do that myself by myself, you know? What about something I would want, like powers or weapons? Or at least food..."

After a few seconds of pondering she replied-

"Well, torturing makes you stronger, am I wrong? Whatever, you mortals want only those two treasures anyways...

Hmm, I had enough of those two junks anyway, so I'll give you this offer, free me and I'll give you the 'Eyes of God', or was it the 'Eyes of divinity'? I forgot really"

I kept staring with absolute shock, for a while I couldn't speak... then after I calmed down I spoke-

"Eyes of God?! What is that? And why would you give it so easily? And-"

She interrupted me- "I don't know much either, the lord of the underworld just forced me to protect it since... a very long time, if you let me free I'll give them to you"

- "Wait wait wait, you'll take my eyes anyways, am I wrong?"

- "I mean.. you wouldn't need the old tools..."

*sigh* alright makes sense, after a second I said-

"How can I even free you in the first place?"

She replied-

"Well.. just break my chains"

- "another thing, who is the lord of the underworld?"

She lingered for a second then said-

"Nobody knows his name, not even the other lords know his name, but they call him Hakk"

- "In any case, free me so I could free you"

A second later the chains loosened up and I was now free to move, I started at her then said-

"How can I break your chains?"

She turned her head towards me then spoke-

"Do whatever you can"

I stared for a second then turned my head towards her chains... 'how can I break that shit?'

I stared at the chains for a few seconds then I said'

"One more question"

- ".. Yes?"

- "It seems you have killed so many creatures, mostly humans... and you have protected those treasures for so long, so why would you change your mind now.

Is it really just because you stopped caring about those treasures?"

- "Well... you are not wrong, there is another reason...

You are the only mortal I met that has the ability to break those chains"

*sigh* - "Okay then"