THE DOOR
It possessed a geometry that was too perfect for the rough, organic interior of the hut.
It was a Door.
The frame shimmered with a faint, violet luminescence, pulsing gently like a slow heartbeat. The center of the door was a swirling vortex of black, but deep within that blackness, Ressi could see faint glimmers, like distant galaxies spinning in a void. It looked deep—impossibly deep.
The fire in the hearth seemed to shrink away from it. The temperature in the hut plummeted.
Fear, cold and primal, washed over him. He scrambled backward until his back hit the reed door he had been about to open. "Mungu wangu," he whispered.
Sikat na Kabanata