The moment Damon stepped into the rift, his environment shifted, and he dropped to the ground with a wet thud.
Mud clung well above his ankles, holding his feet strongly in place.
All around him, vines hung from well-rotten trees, and no more than a meter in front of him stood Eve.
"Good thing I wore boots," she said, more so to herself than to him.
Her leather knee-high boots did a pretty good job of keeping the mud away.
"Let's try and get out of this mud," Damon said, though looking around, he didn't really see a spot without the mud.
They appeared to be in some type of swamp. Nothing but mud, rotten trees and hanging vines surrounded them, with no sight of escape from the muddy earth below.
Luckily, the rotten trees opened up above well enough to see the jagged lines leading toward the Rift core.
"Come, core's this way," Eve said, already pushing through the mud.
Damon didn't linger, following shortly after with Kitsune sitting on his shoulder.
