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KAIJUNE DAY 22: GRAVESIDE

It came from suffering.

The Hunter Killer was lost. Gone. Stolen. We had sent the others searching but to no avail. The Shade was in hiding. The Herald was nowhere to be seen. The Dead Man's Hand had either been vanquished or disappeared to its own unspeakable purpose. The Ambusher had taken the Hunter Killer once. Then we had seen - but what do you do when the lights go out and a colossal being is just gone like it never existed?

And in the rubble and the mud of the pit something stirred with their pain.

The other academy volunteers were inconsolable. None of us could fathom what it meant to embody a being of that much power. To be forced into the Engine again and again, to undergo that horrifying transformation again and again. And now one of them was just gone. Again and again they went into the Engine, and again and again they found nothing.

And in the blood and Ichor of the pit something drank their sorrow.

The three remaining Academy volunteers - no, not volunteers, veterans, they had lost a member in battle, they were veterans - had returned from another searching trip. They had collapsed, sloughing off biological material and Ichor, venting the Thunderers energy. Returning to their bunks and lapsing into bitter silence.

And in the nightmare and horror of the pit the Graveside stitched itself together from their pain.

Fuck you. *Idols your Godzilla*

Kaijune

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Kaijune 2023 - Day 9 - "Levitation"

Kept stalling and restarting the day 1 prompt so I've decided to do the prompts as they come rather than try and catch up.