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Vesper
The space Vesper stepped into was… shocking.
The ground under her feet was still dark stone. All around her, the sky was blank and white, unnatural as could be. She stood on a small clearing of sorts; a hundred yards away, the ground rose to form a thin, high stone arch.
A bridge, if you were the bravest person in the world. Up and up and up it went, Vesper’s eyes widening as she took it in. The arch thinned even more at the top, until it was mere inches wide.
Below it, more endless white mist.
“Are we safe?” Vesper asked, glancing behind her.
“They’re not coming after us,” Kirael said, his voice flat. “No one comes in here willingly. So… safe from Jeremet, perhaps.”
“Where are we?”
“The first level Lucifer ever created. Fear.”
“Fear?” she asked, incredulous. “That’s wh
