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Wabacha wrote:

The darkness swallows her, the spread cape closing back over Sophia and welcoming her to nothingness. She still feels earth beneath her, and feels nothing physical close in on her, yet it is impossible to see anything. Not even her hands as she looks at them. Her slight trust in Vasile is not betrayed, seeming that way at first as the endless darkness takes shape and texture, visible folds of fabric that hug around her body before the darkness splits horizontally in front of her eyes. The sudden brightness and heat is a far cry from the dreary chill of fall, light bouncing off the distant ocean's waves upwards towards her. It takes a moment to register that the ocean is less away as it is also below, even though she still feels like she is standing on solid ground the earth is far below her, a tropical jungle that breaks into beaches that stretch out before her a few miles until it meets the sparkling blue ocean. The sly is clear and shorebirds flock in the skies, the only blemish is a dark and large storm crackling on the horizon, and the gathering of soldiers, ships, tanks, and massive artillery guns, all shaped and powered by some form of magical energy. This is all she can see, even though Vasile's cape has opened up enough to look straight down and to the sides, it doesn't give a full view of this new Sector that Vasile has whisked her away to. Speaking of, how they are sharing the same space is a mystery, the right side of her body is fully where his left should be, hidden inside his cloak. If she looks up to him, she cannot tell where his body is, or if this is all a part of his mystical powers.

"This is a distant world, northwest of your own. Three days ago their wizards sensed its approach. Twelve hours ago, the sector's combined naval forces were lost, to that storm." Vasile does not gesture, but it is hard to miss the black clouds and lightning on the horizon that look to be drawing eerily closer far faster than any natural weather phenomenon. "The armies have mobilized to evacuate as much of the population as they can in so little time. These few are all that is left between the world and damnation. This world's gods too will intervene., but it will not be enough."

Getting to watch a new far off sector appear before her from the absolute darkness she was encompassed by was disorienting, but nothing she couldn't handle getting used to before she looked on to this new and unfamiliar place... It was especially disorienting feeling the ground beneath her feet but quite clearly seeing the ground a great distance beneath her. So much so that it made her feet tingle with unease, heights were not her favourite but again she could deal with it.

That is when she could see it in the distance, a storm on the horizon that was very out of place amongst the tropical scenery all before her. That was when she noticed the ships, soldiers, tanks and artillery guns far below that are all looking out towards the same storm on the horizon... She noticed that everything they used was fueled by some sort of magic. Huh, how familiar she thought to herself, but this magic they were using was not familiar to her. Likely a power that originates here. Though before her mind can be occupied with the growing questions that come with this bizarre way of showing her what she wanted to see, even trying to look up to Vasile with little success, she hears what he has to say while her eyes cast back out to the immense storm on the horizon.

She had to admit, she could feel herself wanting to get far away from that storm even now. It was hard to believe that an entire sectors combined navy was destroyed by some clouds... But she knew it was not as plain as it seemed. Looking down upon what was standing between this sector and annihilation, she could only fathom what those below must be feeling... Even more so when she hears that not even this sectors Gods will be enough.

"But... What is it? That storm alone cannot be all there is... Right?"