Feng Li knitted his eyebrows, noting the thick air laced with daggered gazes from his senior brothers. He took a risk. The pendant hanging around his neck spoke to him for the first time. Something here would aid him. He had no choice but to seek the opportunity. Well, admittedly, he had a choice; that was neither here nor there, though.
An eclipsed sun hung above them. Bright red light burned its sinister hue into everything around. Even the shadows carried a tint of its menacing grit with crimson edges along the counters. Beneath the eclipse, everything around them became predators.
Weird pseudo intelligent vegetation, a cross between plant and fungi, coiled into massive forests that constantly seeped an oozing acid feeding on qi. The ground beneath felt more like soft tissue lining the outer membrane of the oesophagus, and its color matched the logic of the red sun above. The tinted blue they witnessed before the eclipse had dulled to a muddy purple.
