When Hannah and Jack climbed back to the surface, only then did they recall that the Path T2-316 should not have been as dim as it had been earlier.
Thinking back, while this part where they were had been in a bit of disarray, and its sky had been as usual, the wall-like existence that had appeared in the distance had been abnormal. While intangible, it had pulled at everything on the ground, absorbing, crushing and disintegrating anything it touched, then collapsed toward the other entrance.
It had all happened too fast, and the subsequent impact had swept through the Path and hit this side too fast.
Unlike during the last battle they had participated in on the desertic planet, this was not a remodeling, it was a ravage, a pure, uncontrolled ravage.
