Still lying on the cold stones, Sunny stared into the boundless darkness above them.
There, high above the ground, the fabric of the world was torn, and the fissure he and the Vile Thieving Bird had arrived through could still be seen.
He could not enter the heart of the Estuary without Nephis, and was not sure that there was a point in trying to get inside either. So, it was all but certain that he would have to enter the labyrinth of broken time once more in order to return to his companions.
It was just that...
That labyrinth was infinite in a very literal sense. It was a maze of eternity.
Sunny did not want to find out how long one could remain lost in eternity.
Delving into the fissure without some sort of guidance was no different from suicide.
He closed his eyes.
'Fine... I'll just rest a little bit. Then I will think of a way forward, or at least of a way to find the way forward."
