The group fanned out slightly as they took their first steps into the vast expanse of this new area, or actually a new world.
Their eyes moved in every direction and the strange silence of this world pressed against their skins.
It wasn't just the silence of emptiness but it felt like something watching them and waiting to pounce, which made them even more anxious.
With their Perception enhanced by the points they had invested, they no longer needed to guess—there were things here. Beings. They can feel the energy that pulsing beneath the ground, flowing through these strange plants, and lingering in the air.
It was thick, clinging to their skin and slipping under their breath.
Myles narrowed his eyes. That sense of strangeness didn't just belong to a mutated earth after the apocalypse. It was more than that.
The air itself vibrated with an unfamiliar force that didn't belong to the world they had grown up in.
