All around was enveloped in pitch-black darkness.
If there was such a thing as an abyss, this must be it.
An endless fall into a lightless void.
Where it led, he could not know.
Who he was, he did not know. Why he was here, he did not know.
Suspended in a world of forgotten stillness, he drifted, observing and contemplating, maintaining a faint sense of self.
Like a lone soul abandoned in a boundless, windless ocean.
Or perhaps such a vast and immense sea could not even exist.
This place was chillingly cold and eerily silent.
"…"
A world of nothingness.
Suddenly, a shiver of fear coursed through him.
How much time had passed?
A day? A week?
A month? A year?
A century? A millennium?
Perhaps an eternity had passed—an incomprehensible amount of time beyond human reasoning.
"…Hu…man."
After countless cycles of thought, his faint self-awareness resurfaced, reminding him that he had once been human. That he had a name. That he had fought. That he had lost.
