Alex and Kaelios stepped through the radiant veil of light, leaving their chamber behind and emerging into a vast corridor that stretched far ahead, seemingly without end.
The soft echo of their footsteps resonated faintly against the polished floor, their reflections shimmering in the faint glow that filled the passage.
This hallway, unlike anything they had seen recently, radiated an eerie calm.
It stretched forward into another luminous veil at the far end, a clear indication that something awaited beyond it.
Along the sides of the corridor were windows, each one framed in silver and glowing slightly, as if alive.
Alex turned to glance out one of them.
The view that met his eyes was a strange blend of the familiar and the unknown.
One window showed a desolate battlefield from [Universal Descent], a place Alex had once bled in.
Another showed the cityscape of Earth, its gray skyline smudged with pollution and memory.
