Chapter 18: Nememiah RevealedOpening my eyes, I blinked uncertainly in the stark whiteness surrounding me. The ground was cold and hard and I struggled upright, perturbed to discover I'd been lying on a stone floor. Where was I? My head was throbbing and nausea churned in my stomach. One second I'd been standing outside the gates of Zaen but when I'd put my hand against the stone wall… well, whatever had happened it seemed I'd been transported here. Wherever here might be. I contemplated the surroundings cautiously but there was nothing to see, no deviation from white. Overhead, all around was the same monotonous whiteness. There was no sound, only the noise of my erratic breathing to alleviate the profound and disorientating nothingness.
“Why do you seek entrance to Zaen?”
My breath cau
