The atmosphere around suddenly seemed to change—something, a very massive "structure", was taking shape near the Homeloss.
Duncan stood at the edge of the stern cockpit, continuously keeping an eye on Alice, but suddenly he seemed to sense something and simultaneously with Fenna he looked up at the sky.
A vague and massive "phantom" was slowly emerging in the dim Sky Light and the thin mist.
The phantom appeared to be a loosely aggregated mass of many disjointed large chunks with a roughly shuttle-shaped outline, as if torn from an even more massive entity, and within its heart one could faintly make out the fractured connecting structures!
The scale of the entire phantom could be described as startling—through the distant fog, Duncan and Fenna couldn't even determine its actual size nor ascertain how far it floated above the Homeloss, but the mere pressure from the phantom was already making them feel breathlessly oppressed.
