Hide was falling one moment with his hands in front of his face and the next moment he knew he was standing straight once again.
That was what Hide noticed first. Not where he was or what had changed around him.
Then he looked up and for a second his heart forgot to pump blood and his lungs forgot how to breathe.
The door was enormous.
Not the exaggerated enormity of something described as large — actually, physically enormous.
It was black, or something close to black, the color of metal that had been dark for a very long time, adorned with rust and creeping weeds.
The frame was set into walls that went straight to either side as far as the eye could see, if the eyes could see beyond a few meters that is.
