Liam stirred into wakefulness, feeling his sharp gasps echo through his ears; his heart was racing in his chest. With a frustrated blink, he parted his lids, the glare of the light making them instantly water. Liam felt his mind get jolted out of kilter from the sudden shift. His body was heavy, weighted as he dragged it for miles through thick, heavy darkness. The light that rescued him now dimmed, softening into a faint glow and outlining the room around him.
He wasn't in the void anymore. He was… somewhere else.
Liam pushed himself up onto his elbows and looked around. The room was chilled from stone walls, lined up around its perimeter with flickering torches that cast eerie shadows dancing across the floor. The air smelled of damp earth and something metallic, almost like blood. His
