The darkness was different than any darkness I was used to.
It was deep and suffocating.
Within the darkness, it almost felt as though no living thing could exist.
The city of ice that once dominated my vision was gone. Instead, the darkness was now all that was left. Velar, Evelyn... They were both gone. I felt a deep sense of dread as I looked around me.
Something vast shifted within the darkness. It was slow, but it was massive, like the stirring of a continent-sized thing that had been sleeping just beneath the fabric of the world. The air itself rippled, and with every pulse, I felt my thoughts blur, as if my mind wasn't meant to perceive what stood before me.
Ba... Thump! Ba... Thump!
All I could hear was the sound of my own heartbeat as it reverberated loudly inside my mind.
I could hardly focus, feeling something try to invade my mind.
And then...
Crack—!
A sound, distant yet deafening, like the splitting of reality itself.
