Chapter 33: Prism(7)
The moment Kai's feet touched down inside the Prism's space, the world tightened around him.
It wasn't physical.
It wasn't pain
It was like walking into a memory that didn't belong to him a sensation crawling under his skin, slipping behind his eyes, tugging faintly at the back of his mind.
He exhaled slowly, grounding himself.
Alright. So this was it.
He looked up.
Kathlyn stood just ahead, still, her shoulders squared, her head turning carefully left, then right. She was taking in the changes, sharp-eyed and tense.
The field had transformed.
The endless meadow of blue flowers was no longer endless or at least, it didn't look like it. Purple flowers now threaded through the landscape, spreading in spirals and clusters, sharp-petaled and dense They changed the feel of the place entirely: where before it had looked dreamlike, soft, almost wistful, now it felt a kind of waiting tension Kai could feel but not place.
He took a slow breath, forcing his hands to unclench