Broken by One, Desired by All
The next, something ripped the air from my lungs and replaced it with the iron-scented mist of a battlefield that stretched into infinity.
I stood in a wasteland of ash and silver, my bare feet sinking into the powdery remains of something long dead. The substance felt wrong against my skin… too fine, too cold, as if I walked upon the cremated remains of a fallen world. The sky above hemorrhaged violet, torn between a blinding, celestial white and a devouring, oily black.
These primordial forces waged war across the heavens, their conflict painting the clouds in bruised shades of destruction. I was the epicenter… the fault line where light and darkness collided with enough force to unmake re