"Do you feel that?" Kieran’s voice trembled, his hands shaking as he gripped mine. His touch was warm, but it couldn’t ease the cold creeping through the air around us.
I nodded, trying to steady my own racing pulse. The ground beneath us shifted, and cracked, as though the very earth was breaking apart. Everything felt... wrong. The world we had known, the world that had shaped us, was slipping through our fingers.
“I don’t understand,” I whispered, my breath coming out in short, uneven gasps. “How is this possible? Where are we?”
Kieran’s blue eyes flicked nervously over the strange, ever-shifting landscape. Shadows stretched across the horizon, stretching and contorting as if alive. “This… this is the place. The world between worlds. It’s not real, but it’s not a dream either.”
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