||I didn't go anywhere, Richard.||

The voice rises up all around them - and so does the ground. It erupts into a circle of monsters, suddenly penning them in.

A spherical shape rises in the air above them - one with a strange, jagged star shape on it, a twisted organic version of the star on Rich's helmet.

Many of the creatures that erupt forth seem touched by the red star themselves, corrupted.

||The being that took you left me behind. Not that it would've mattered; even if it hadn't, you were about to abandon me.||