The air hums and the stones rattle as the hole tears open like an old rag, spacial shards splitting like an otherworldly glass.

The night is dark and Vraeryn has been awake longer than he wanted. Yet the opportunity was too tantalizing. A strange scent was on the air since the dawn of the previous day. A weak point in the dimensional veils between worlds was fast approaching. He couldn't explain how he knew, and many of his friends dismissed his attempts to do so. Still, accompanied or not, Vraeryn was not about to let his first chance pass him by.

The power that flowed through him was nothing short of invigorating, and even that felt like an understatement. As the gap grew ever wider, the sounds of a distant waterfall drowned out the waves of the rocky shore. The first glimpses of another world.

It was odd. This one seemed eerily familiar. He hadn't seen these falls before in his life but the way the air flowed, the gleam of the sunlight- it was familiar. Vraeryn's lips began to split as his jaws parted with disbelief. Surely this place he found could not be...?

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