"Ha...! HAHe!"
The laughter was different from what it had been before.
If earlier it sounded restrained…
Now, all restraints had been thrown out the window. The laugh grew even more deranged as the Jester's body hunched further and further, the mask covering its face twitching with a madness so palpable it made the world seem to pause around it.
But it wasn't the Jester's changes that made everyone look at it in horror.
It was what the laughter brought that made the Paragons stop dead in their tracks.
Cra Crack!
A Paragon's body twitched, its bones jutting up and down beneath its skin as its entire structure began to change.
The movements were small at first, barely noticeable, but they quickly grew sharper, the sounds of bones grinding against one another slipping through the air.
