The skull rattled and shivered in place as spider-like legs crept through the empty eye sockets, settling the creature into a crouched state as it began to survey its new surroundings. It wasn't under the ground anymore, it was somewhere stone-paved and empty.
Crates were stacked all around it covered in symbols it couldn't understand and full of other writhing, struggling, screaming creatures. If it had the capacity, it would have felt pity for them, would have felt fear for them all in the face of this uncertainty. As it didn't, it chose to investigate its surroundings instead.
Looming bipeds rushed around, nearly tripping over their own lowly number of feet as they tried to contain the swarm rushing at them from gaping void-like portal that jutted out of a nearby wall. The vague outline of dirt on the other side felt familiar, it felt like home.
Ignoring the swarm it skittered towards the portal, fully intent on settling back into the dark and the damp til something foolish enough tried to crawl into its shell and found itself fast becoming food. It was a simple existence, all that it had known until this day and one that was abruptly cut off as a foot came crunching down on its shell - shattering it as all that the creature was began to spill onto the already-drenched floor.
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