![]() ![]() That had been his gut reaction initially, but he had woken up into this space, not fallen asleep into it. He was not asleep, and this was not a dream. His stomach still churned uneasily but he had managed to center himself at least enough to consider his situation. The sound floated out into the abyss, cascading away as if it too was trying to escape this horrible, empty place.ĭaniel swallowed. His uncertain voice seemed to leave his lungs without vibrating his chest. Daniel took a deep, shuttering breath, coughed, and then slowly took another, slightly steadier one. An empty, impossible space that spanned forever in every coherent direction. Eventually he was able to pull himself back up to his hands and knees, then shakily returned to his feet.Īround him remained the nightmarish void. Minutes? Hours? Maybe longer? He was not sure, but slowly, agonizingly slowly, the swirling pool of his mind began to still. Daniel’s lack of perspective made it virtually impossible to measure the time he remained on the invisible floor before he finally began to acclimate. He was left in this space alone, swirling with dizziness, until his slow, shallow breath was his last remaining comfort. Nothing came from him, just as nothing came for him. His body hopelessly tried to vomit several more times almost praying he could – if for no other reason than to have something else in this space that his eyes could focus on. More time swam by him as his nausea worsened. There was nothing that should have allowed Daniel to see himself, but his own form was the only object his spiraling mind could circumstantiate. There were no shadows in this place – no darkness but also no light. How much was impossible to tell as his mind swirled and Daniel found himself constantly staring at his hands in desperation for a frame of reference. His head spun as nausea overwhelmed him and he violently dry heaved onto the absent floor. There were no landmarks or points he could reference, nothing he could see, hear, or smell to form any sort of bearing. Again, his eyes darted to his surroundings, the inky space around him aggressively disorienting. Instinctively he wind-milled his arms as vertigo overtook him.ĭaniel dropped to all fours, edging his hands out in every direction trying to find the invisible edge that would lead to his perpetual free-fall. ![]() ![]() Above there was no sky below there was abyss. Each direction Daniel turned revealed a black void to welcome him. Daniel could feel the ground pressing up against his shoes as he balanced on it, but despite giving the toe a testing tap on his platform, there was no comprehendible ground under him.ĭisoriented eyes scanned the horizon only to find it lacking. The surface below him was solid, that much was undeniable. It was only then that Daniel finally found himself awake in the void. In a way, his fate was the cruelest.Īlong with those cursed few, the sharks, and the labyrinth. A creation of malice – fathered by the mother of all – to be the antithesis to the Arbiter. It would kill them until they worshiped it as a god. ![]() Stolen, brought against its will to the city of incantation. There was the beast that hunted the wild continent. The girl was there, young, full of ideas, tinkering with her little automatons.Īs was that unfortunate man – the one who did nothing yet everything wrong – the man who would bring about the end of all things, if not just in time. The fractals curled at the edge of infinity calculating every opposing circumstance. ![]()
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