Chapter 86: Out Of The Abyss
Stella used Kir’s body in ways so creative, that he hoped he’d remember them later for Kordia and Rain.
Not once during the process did the Forbidding placed on him activate, even when she caused him some painful pleasure. Afterward, they speculated that it was because she was his familiar and he didn’t recognize the pain as an attack.
After picking himself up off the floor, Kir noticed a small object stuck to his arm. He plucked it off to see that it was one of the seals from his ear. Stella confirmed that it had left a circular gauge, but very careful poking on her part proved that it could now be safely removed.
Inspecting both pieces, Kir accidentally applied too much pressure to the former seal, causing it to shear into dozens of tiny circular sheets. Each one of them was etched with magic circles, meaning that whoever had designed the seals had layered them with spells that even Chancellor Lumin hadn’t seen... or perhaps hadn’t shown Kir.
He hoped he had all the pieces as he dimensionally stored the tiny shards. Checking the ground for them was impossible with the light washing out the stony terrain. Trying to look at the source of the light almost made him panic as he beheld a black orb surrounded by white orbits, distorted as if through a many-layered lens.
"That’s... a singularity," Kir uttered, forgetting both Stella and the pain in his body for a moment.
"You actually know what that thing is?" she asked, a happy tilt to her voice reflecting the glow of post-coital satisfaction. Letting her lead had been the right idea.
"It’s mass... so much mass that even light can’t escape," Kir said. He couldn’t even see anything that looked remotely like matter feeding it. Was it a black hole, or some phenomenon that looked like one? From his past life, a word surfaced in his mind... Kugelblitz. A singularity of light.
"Uh, are you kidding? It’s a big black thing, right there." Stella pointed out as she pulled her hair into a ponytail.
"We’re not actually seeing it, just the light around it..." Kir could feel his mind straining to assess just how massive the black hole had to be. Sizes were impossible to gauge in here, so they had to be extremely distant, but by all appearances, it was at least a few kilometers away. After a long moment of gawking, the only thing he could come up with was, "We should be dead..."
"Yeah, well, we’re not," Stella said, stretching as she popped her back and tail. "Fuck I thought I’d evolve from that... I feel like an overstuffed pillow." She looked up. "You want me to ride you up the hole or are we flying separate?"