316. Peeling Back
Void Layers - 2nd Layer?
Lumoof thought it felt like years, but it wasn’t. It was just the sameness of it all that made time seem to stretch out.
“How many days have we been moving?” Lumoof asked Stella. If he didn’t regularly check in through our mutual connection, it almost felt like he was lost in the ocean of strings. At times, the strings looked fat, like gigantic long earthworms. Sometimes they resembled colorful eels, wriggling and wobbling just out of reach around them, never quite touching them.
“I don’t know.” Stella said, but she soldiered on. “Keep going. We’re almost there. I’ve been thinking about it for a while, but actually, this is a familiar feeling.”
“A familiar feeling?” Lumoof asked.
“I couldn’t pin it down, and kept wondering where I felt this feeling before. But you know, I learned void magic from the Zaratans, and the Zaratans have a mind-state where the void forest feels like something similar. Rather than strings, instead it was like a constant slurry of mud.”
“Oh. It’s different then.” The avatar wasn’t sure where Stella was going with it, but humored her.
“It is.” Stella said and then she stopped. “I think we’re here.”
The strings just stopped moving, and without us fully coming to the realization, we were suddenly not in that part of the void layers anymore.