Kiara smiled, walking down the path to the heart. She walked for a few minutes, enough time to create some distance between her and Lance. And once she had created enough distance, she fell to her knees.
"Oh god..."
Now that she was alone, she could bawl her eyes out freely. She cried, fearing for her life. "I... I don't want to die..." She couldn't die here. Not because she wanted to continue being a hero, but simply because she wanted to see her wife again. She wanted to stay alive to give birth to her child, but...
"Life is so unfair..."
Thoughts filled her head. "DieDieDieDieDieDieDieDie-" She could die, and that made her heart beat faster than it ever did before. She had faced death many times before, but what made it different this time? This time, she had a family to build. A loving wife to return to, and a child to give birth to. To love. Losing that made her fear death more than ever.
"No- I can't die here..."
Kiara had lied all her life. She was born during the calamity, after all, with no parents or family to care for her. Therefore, she had to lie and cheat to get by. She had to do things for people to make sure she was high on the food chain as a child, all because she was weak. That was how she mastered the art of controlling her own mind to change her personality, like what she did with Zonolo, except that time the Emerald Plague was influencing her.
"Move forward."
She told herself that she wasn't going to die, even if she didn't truly believe that. She got up and moved forward, walking through the fleshy and blood path to the wolf's heart, ignoring her own internal cries of fear and distress. That was how the little girl was capable of moving forward in the hellscape that was Earth, and that was how she continued to move forward.
Meanwhile...
Lance experienced a trail of blood and flesh, each step he took making a semi-loud squishing sound. The acids within the wolf's stomach were, well, acidic, but mildly, as such he would not melt or burn to death. But it was hard to move, as within the wolf's body it was incredibly cold, to the point it reached near absolute zero temperatures, yet the liquids did not freeze.
"Quite the peculiar body this thing has..." Metatron said.