Chapter 116: Ch114. Acknowledgement
The air was thick with the scent of rusted metal and the sharp, electric tang of an impending storm. The landscape stretched endlessly around him, ruinous and filled with impossible waste that did not belong anywhere in his world.
Now that Miles knew that he and Kurt had come from different worlds, he was certain that those things scattered across the Horizon were pieces of trash, of waste that was thrown in there from gods knew how many different worlds.
But this time, it felt different. It felt like home.
Not in the comforting, warm sense that his world carried. But in a way that had changed him irrevocably.
Miles could not quite place it. But after everything he had endured in The Maw, after facing down the Revenants and overcoming the crushing pressure, he knew he was not the same man who had jumped goodbye to Kurt a while ago.
As he walked, the structure appeared on the horizon, jagged and imposing like some great sentient monument. Miles had trained here with Kurt, fought against every limitation he thought he had, and faced obstacles that nearly broke him.
Yet, here he was again.
The closer he got, the more his heart began to race. It was not fear. It was the anticipation of something he was not quite ready to acknowledge.
The ground beneath his boots felt like it was shifting, as if the Maw itself was still lingering in his bones, and with each step closer, he could feel the weight of everything he had endured getting a bit less heavy.