With the final words from that unknown presence still lingering around him, Elias could feel that the pressure on his shoulders had not relented, and he wondered how deep into the earth he was being pushed.
He knew that when he was about to receive his Pillar of Sorrow inside the Fragment, he had been pushed deep into the earth, but that time he had been a bit, um, indisposed, most would even call him dead, and could not tell how deeply he had fallen.
This time it was no different, he had awareness, but there was complete darkness around him, and while inside the water, it was difficult for him to tell even the time or the speed of his descent, and his awareness was no longer as sharp due to the fact that he should be long dead by suffocation, but his body was no longer that of a mortal, and Elias thought that suffocating him would take days not minutes.
