I met Gia in the in-between space that night, my mind still heavy with everything she'd told me about the Cilios Realm. About the three dimensions. About what I'd have to do to save Damon.
She was waiting for me in the grey mist, her expression more serious than I'd ever seen it.
"Are you ready?" she asked.
"To see where the Harvester keeps the stolen fragments?"
"Yes. The Echoing Wastes." She paused. "It won't be easy to witness, Kaiden. They’re fragments of living people—ripped away and left to suffer in a nightmare they can’t make sense of.
I thought about Damon, standing outside that convenience store with dead eyes. "Show me."
Gia raised her hand, and the air in front of us began to ripple. Not like the portals I'd seen before—this one felt different. Colder. Wrong in a way that
