Chapter 138: Quiet Blue
Dune's eyes snapped open. The world that greeted him made no sense.
He stood on a thin, see-through platform suspended in the sky, so narrow that lying down wasn't even an option.
There was just enough space to stand, and barely that. Windless silence surrounded him, yet everything above churned with slow, dreadful motion.
His gaze drifted upward, and his breath caught.
An ocean, massive, endless, flowing above him.
No horizon, no beginning, no end. A liquid sky that defied all logic, its waters glinting with sunlight piercing through the clouds in between the ocean's edge and the empty sky below.
But it wasn't only the ocean that made his heart hammer. It was what swam within.
Calamities.
Colossal beings, larger than the cities of Earth, moved through the sea like gods in slumber.
Their eyes alone were massive, glowing like suns, locked on him with awareness that felt ancient and cruel. As they passed, their gazes didn't break. Dune could feel their attention, heavy like the weight of the ocean itself.
What the hell is this place?