If those ancient petals had opened beneath Earth's heavens, every ancient being capable of recognizing the Lotus should have turned their attention toward this world. Instead, the heavens above Hell's Paradise Island had convulsed beneath a terrifying tide of World Essence, the island had changed, and then the greatest part of the phenomenon vanished almost as quickly as it came.
Now golden currents flowed into the world and powers that had never known World Essence before were being touched by it, their purity and potency changing beneath its passage while the entire island slowly became something it had never been.
Yet no Primordial Lotus remained above the heavens for Danton to behold.
That absence guarded Phei better than any lie.
