The massive wood doors of the church had a very odd smell, Thane couldn't help but be at a distance of them and even so, he had to cover his nose with his shirt.
He knew his objective was to just get some rich ass bourgeois and deliver him to some fellas who weren't fond of his company, and yet, his mind wavered at the sight of this small church and it's weird smell.
For a reason that couldn't be properly explained using words, he thought it was... fascinating. Yes, its grey walls had little cracks here and there due to a badly done paint job, as if multiple people were hurriedly hitting it with brushes filled with paint up and down, horizontally back and forth with no regard to how it would look like.
The windows were yellowed out, its metal frames painted a bright white that had small traces of rust around its edges, the square shape was broken in the top with a perfectly angled curvature on top, it was caved in and a bit dusty.
Thane slowly approached the window, he had backed away a little more and taken off his shirt to use as a improvised mask, now that he was somewhat more accustomed with the smell he looked inside with no issues.
However, despite the bright sun that was shining outside and the massive windows that were at the back of the building, he couldn't make up anything inside due to how dimly lighted it was.
Moving his face close and blocking the sun around his eyes with his hands, he squinted his eyes trying to make out anything inside, a little while passed and his eyes got a bit more used to the unnatural darkness inside.
Then, he could make up 2 figures right at the table that those religious people say stuff, one was small and a bit thin looking, and the other was square like and even smaller, by the looks of it, it was someone short and someone who was kneeling in prayer, maybe.
He couldn't make up any of their features, so he took advantage that they were facing their backs to him and put his ear against the window to see if he could hear what they were saying.
However, there were only some faint random clicks.
Feeling that he was already wasting his time being so cautious, he rubbed his eyes, now that he looked away it felt as if his head was starting to spin in place and his skull was being pierced by huge nails.
"Why the hell is my head hurting out of nowhere...?" It could only be this infernal heat wave that have been hitting this season, he was already feeling like he had a sunstroke.
No matter, he could use a healing before he had to fight the guy they were looking for, the chances of him being there were minimum anyway, why should he waste his time...
Looking at the window, the metal frame weren't shaped like how most window frames were supposed to look like, no, it had a piece go through the middle of it both in the vertical and horizontal, with two extra frames that met in the center and ended at the corners, the glass had curved patterns that connected in the frames.
"Like a spider web..." Why is he having those idle thoughts, this is not the time to keep staring at this old ass building that probably was more poor than carriage horses, he had a mission to be finished!
Yes, his mission, find the guy that was hiding from them somewhere in this isolated place where Joulle lost his boots, hmm, a unsuspecting church would surely be the ideal place to someone be hiding...
Thane rubbed his eyes, feeling light headed and kinda dizzy, he took off his shirt from his face and used it to fan himself, even though the smell still made him very uncomfortable, he had no choice but to inhale deeply to see if he would put himself back together.
For a moment, it seemed to work, and he looked up at the bright sky that was making him suffer so much and sneered at it for inconveniencing him at such a moment.
He noticed the church didn't have the staff of Joulle at its pointed front ceiling, instead it was some sort of eye with a spiral for a pupil, that was looking down on him.
Ugh, ok, concentration! Enter the chuch! See if your guy is there! Get out!
Breathing in and out, he felt his senses dull for a moment while reaching for the doors that seemed so light to push, confidence was making him puff out his chest, his misson was going to be successful and he was very sure of it!
But a centimeter before he touched the door, a flash of bright lights exploded behind him and a loud noises startled him so much he fell on his butt, he broke out in cold sweat and clutched his chest, it felt like he had just run a marathon at that moment.
When he looked back, the sky had some bright fires beinh put out in the sky where the sound had come from, Thane ran toward the precarious looking fance and clutched his hand with a trembling grip at it, his mind racing with no explanation why.
"They found him, he is not in the church!" He was extremely relieved. But why? He felt compelled to look back, but some sort of heavy pressure was not letting him do that.
He even tried to move his neck to have a last look at this supposed place where the righteous garter, but his spine chilled and refused to move where he wanted to and his heart raced faster like he shouldn't be standing in place and just RUN.
"Right! I have to help my colleagues!" He snapped his fingers and jumped the fence, running as if his life was depending on it, and never in his life he felt so good for the fact that he was a fast runner.
In the window that Thane was looking just a moment ago, a shadow emerged with silent and mechanical like movements, its tear shaped orbs twitch as it studied the movements of the man that was running ever so fast...