Fall Into Depravity

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{Inside The Projection} 

Seeing that the two girls would be fine without him, Malik left them to consolidate their newfound power and went deep into the cave.

He figured he'd scope it out, make sure there weren't any nasty surprises waiting to ruin their little camping trip.

The place was like a mirror of the cave he'd holed up in before—a yawning maw, cloaked in an oppressive silence.

All the walls were slick with moisture, and the smell was horrendous, somehow worse than what he'd gone through with... yeah.

If there were awards for awful stenches, this place certainly would sweep the competition.

It got worse the deeper he got.

Like someone took the wet socks of a rotting corpse, infused them with shit, threw them into a swamp, let them marinate for ten years, baked them under the Shams for another few, and then set the thing on fire.

...It was that bad.