Back in Gods' Prison…
Kai crossed another tunnel, stumbling toward yet another grim end. The tunnels of the future bent like an endless maze, each passage closing with a portal that shimmered like liquid dark glass. At every dead end, he faced a choice: surrender to the future it offered, or resist and keep searching for the one that led him home.
Before stepping through the next portal, he glanced at his gashed arms, wounds that healed slowly, unnaturally, as if the prison wanted to keep him whole for more torment. He leaned against the dark stone wall, trying to summon a tender memory of Reneira. But even those precious moments were slipping away like smoke, fading. He knew that once he crossed this threshold, more of his past would vanish. Only when a forgotten fragment sparked within him did the next portal take shape, and once he passed through, there was no going back, and he would return to the tunnels.
