Valley of ash

( side note, locusts are also able to imbue their “essence” onto soulless creatures, for example if a greed locust marked a lizard it could become a gold hoarding dragon, so on and so forth.)

Garris wakes up, and looks around to take in his surroundings. He’s in a windowless wooden room, with barricades blocking a shabby door. He looks around to see a fireplace and notes his lack of weaponry as he approaches it. Garris sticks his head in and looks up the chimney to see large gaps in the bricks of the fireplace, which would allow him an easy climb. He glances back at the door one last time.