Pitch black, this was the only sensation the last priestess girl had as she stepped through the Death's Gate. Her eyes seemed to lose their function; though they were open, all she saw was darkness. It was an absolute darkness, the kind that no matter how long one stayed, the eyes could not adjust to. At that moment, Lina felt as though she had returned to the deep, dark Crying Cave, back to where it all began, unable to see anything around her. The darkness, like a giant hand, tightly squeezed the girl's heart.
The terror wasn't just from the darkness. To her horror, the priestess girl realized there was no solid ground beneath her feet; she seemed to be suspended in mid-air, enveloped by darkness from all directions, losing all sense of direction. She couldn't even determine her current posture, not knowing whether she was standing or lying down, nor could she tell whether her head or feet were pointing upward.
