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I’m in the dark, in a room, I blink once, twice, slowly. in a daze. No… not a room, a cave? I feel the earth beneath my bare feet. Smooth and cold.

What...?

I look down but I can’t see my body like I’m here but not here. The walls of the cave shimmer a soft light, moonlight. I want to look around, turn around and maybe leave this place but my body is not my own, I go forward instead. I don’t walk, I float toward the light, what is this place?

How did I get here?

When I get closer, I see that the light shines a path through a hole with jagged edges in the ceiling of the cave. There’s a raised platform in the center of the room, rectangular, coming to stop at my hip, well where my hip would be if I had a body. The full moon lights up the dais, it’s slightly unwavering, I can't help but notice the moon shining onto the dais, the path is so direct. A beam as though it was meant to be just so.

A hand, feminine fingers appear on the dais, moving towards a cir