Book 3: Chapter 69: Face of Lightning and Destressing
Lone frowned. 'Not with that attitude.'
'Be not petulant with me, child. You want answers relating to Void, I need to give them to you. Come, now,' Sky ordered again.
"Lone?" Sophie asked, a rare look of concern on her face.
'Sky finally spoke to me and he wants to talk face-to-face in my mind. I'll be right back, 'kay?' Lone replied telepathically.
Her expression hardened. 'Very well. We shall keep your body safe in the meantime.'
Lone nodded and then, with his still heightened focus that was currently centred on Meditation, mentally entered his soul without the help of Darkness as he had been doing ever since he had earned the skill Puzzle Locked Mind.
There were three distinct changes in Lone's soul that he noticed right away.
Neither Darkness nor Death had come out to greet him as they usually did when he came here for the fortnightly meetings. The chains binding Void's abyssal hole, as Darkness had stated, weren't glowing brightly and barely had any light to them at all anymore. And lastly, the gates to Sky's cloud palace were open.
Not wasting any time, Lone immediate approached Sky's residence and entered it. The moment he did, it vanished only to be replaced by an endless sea of clouds that he was standing atop of.