[A/N: Next chapter will be back to Ash and things with the Earth Plane.]
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Aurora and Isis stepped through the rift, light curling around them before flinging them into a strange, moon-like world.
They stood on cracked, pale gray ground beneath a sky of pure void, empty of stars or planets, with nothing but endless rocky plains stretching in every direction.
Nothing, except far off in the distance—two light years—a single pure white tower rose from the desolation, soaring a thousand feet high, piercing straight into the infinite darkness above.
Isis's eyes narrowed as she spotted Xeros and his wives already making a beeline towards the tower.
"This feels wrong," she muttered. "Are we walking into some.... trap?"
Aurora rose into the skies and before she could speak, Elysia sounded in her mind.
[She's not wrong dear. Keep you head on a swivel and be ready for anything.]
