[Violet]
One second, I was falling. Next, I was on my back, clutching Raye to my chest as she curled into herself, small and trembling.
Somehow, we hadn’t landed hard enough to snap my spine or knock the air out of my lungs. Wherever this place was, it didn’t feel like we’d fallen far. Maybe the lake hadn’t dragged us too deep—or maybe it had, but spared us the part of dying.
I opened my eyes.
And there it was.
The same nightmare I’d seen in my vision. A grey, lifeless sky stretched above. Dry, rocky earth beneath us.
“Mum?” Raye’s small voice quivered against me. Her wide eyes peeked up, searching my face. “Where are we?”
Before now, I would’ve been clueless. But this time, I knew. We were in the Nether.
The prison realm.
The place you could get into but never out of.
A place wi
