Coco broke the silence first. "I don't know what that is." he said as he took a slow step back from the cave entrance, crossing his arms with an expression that had settled into complete certainty. "But I know I'm not going inside. I'll be very supportive from out here. I'll cheer, but I will not be entering the scary cave."
Nobody argued with him. For once the childish comment matched exactly what every rational part of my brain was also feeling.
The cave felt wrong. No wind came out of it, no sound either. Just a slow, deep pulse of violet light from somewhere further inside.
I focused, twenty spheres rotating inside my mind.
Sense.
I thought there might be something dead or alive inside, but it wasn't the case, there was nothing at all.
But at the same time, something didn't feel right. In the place where the light came from was a shape I couldn't define, it felt like a gap in the fabric of the world.
