The Van Helsing Conjecture – Excerpt No. 254

“The meat was fine the first two times, this time it… decayed.”

Clara chuckled. She guessed that a werewolf preferred to eat meat from off the bone.

“That’s what aged meat is,” Clara explained.

“Oh?” Julia asked. “Well, I cut away the bad parts and cooked what was left.”

So, the Terminus was also connected to pocket worlds in addition to being littered with bubbles from alternate realities. It’s a shame that the goddesses were silent, as their advice could be their ticket out of here.

a dramatic, high-contrast cinematic photograph of four goddesses from various mythologies, each gagged with a thick, luxurious velvet ribbon and bound by intricate, ornate golden chains that adorn their wrists and ankles, their eyes conveying a sense of defiant struggle, set against a dark, gradient grey background that falls off into blackness, with subtle, warm golden lighting that highlights the curves and contours of their faces and bodies, capturing the tension and sensuality of the scene, with a shallow depth of field that blurs the background and emphasizes the goddesses' forms, shot from a low angle to evoke a sense of power and vulnerability.

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