”Here you are sir, her head - just as you asked.”, screamed Ajax.

”This is the 76th person I have brought you. How much more pain and torture must we endure?”

The ground begins to shake and a deep roar comes out from the enormous face that's in front of him.

”Do not talk to me about torture”, it shouts. ”I've been stuck here for nearly 1000 years and you have the audacity to lecture me about pain and torture.”

Ajax shuffles back slightly from the edge of the steps he was just standing on, making sure he has a firm footing.

Standing up straight with his chest raised up he agitatedly screams back, ”You’ve made me kill 75 of my closest friends, and now I'm standing here holding my dead wife's head. So yes! I will talk to you about pain and suffering!” He accidentally pauses for a moment as the images come flooding back to him from barely an hour ago where he brutally murdered the love of his life.

The face lets out a bellowing laugh before Ajax can pull himself back from those horrifying images. ”Haha, that's merely a right of passage from where I'm from. You humans and too soft and clearly that has been the demise of your kind. Bring me 24 more and you shall be free to carry on with your pointless existence.”

The thought of having to carry this on for likely another 100 days suddenly hits Ajax as he falls to his knees, still holding his wife’s head as if he's trying to comfort her.

After sobbing for a few moments he opens his eyes and a piercing look covers his face. He puts one hand on the ground as he pushes himself back up onto his feet.

After a deep breath, Ajax lets out an angry roar as he swings his body around and hurls his wife’s head straight into the face. ”You will NOT control us any more. Why even bother trying to become free when every person I must kill to get us there takes away what it means to be free in the first place. Screw you and your kind.”

Ajax spits into the abyss before turning to sprint down the stairs and begins his sprint into the covers of The Darkened Forest.

Just as he gets within 100 meters of the forest edge he begins to feel the ground beneath him shake and a rumbling noise begins to grow behind him.

He wants to look back one last time to see what might be coming for him but he knows it will only slow him down..