Xavier’s world spun as the ground beneath his feet vanished. He gasped, his breath catching in his throat, panic rising as darkness consumed him, pulling him into a void of nothingness. His thoughts turned messy—where was he being taken?
Then, as suddenly as it had started, his free fall ended with a thud, but fortunately, his bones were not broken. Xavier landed hard on his feet, his legs buckling slightly under the impact. He stumbled forward, catching his balance, his heart racing as he tried to make sense of his surroundings.
The place he found himself in was beyond eerie. It was like a cemetery, but one shrouded in perpetual twilight, where time seemed frozen in a state of decaying ruin. The air was thick with an unsettling stillness, a silence so profound it seemed to press agains
