Tethered To His Shadow
The air at the rim of the Abyssal Cradle did not scream; it hummed with a low, bone-deep resonance that vibrated through the marrow of every living soul.
Standing at the edge of the sheer basalt precipice, Kira looked down into the rift. Below them lay no earth, no stone, no water—only a vast, swirling vortex of absolute darkness streaked with violent veins of raw, uncontained crimson ley-fire. Reality at the perimeter felt paper-thin and fraying at the edges. Time moved erratically here; falling snowflakes froze mid-air, hovering like suspended glass shards before suddenly shattering into clouds of cold black dust.