Darkness swirled around him, darkness given shape and form, like a heavy fog black as tar. Levi pushed through that darkness, even as he felt its negative energy, its desire to thrust him back to the world he’d come from. It knew he was not supposed to be here.
But he willed himself to keep moving forward, to break through that dark fog. It relented at last, allowing him to appear on a vast, empty plain, the ground beneath his feet stony and gray, mirroring the sky above him. Iron-hued clouds rushed overhead at unimaginable speeds, looking like the time-lapse images he’d seen in the human world. This was no time lapse, however; they truly were moving that quickly.
The portal he’d used to come here was not the same one utilized by the demons, because each portal had to resonate with the p
