"Master? Master?! What does she mean master? And what's going on with these woods anyways, why are they all frozen like that?
Can somebody please tell me what is going on?"
Erik desperately looked between the members of the expedition group with an utterly baffled expression on his aquamarine face. His main focus was between Alfie and the wooden woman, who was still silently shedding tears on her knees, but occasionally swept his gaze over the rest of them hoping it would encourage someone to speak.
However, some could barely meet his eye never mind bringing themselves to explain what they had done. Even if she wasn't human to begin with, just seeing her like this cemented that they had inadvertently carried out one of humanity's greatest sins.
Eventually Alfie sighed and raised his head, looking at the confused knight with an exhausted look in the depths of his eyes.
"I absorbed the Amber, I thought it would give me power or something. Instead it gave me..."
