Far beyond the mountains, beyond the borders of the world Rin knew, there was a place where time had stopped.
There was no sky, no ground that could be called ground, no light. Only darkness and in the middle of that darkness stood an enormous prison.
Its walls were made from something darker than stone, covered in ancient symbols that moved whenever World passed through them.
Inside the deepest cell, a man was chained. Massive chains wrapped around his body, extending from the walls and disappearing into the darkness above.
They were not ordinary chains. They were restraints created to hold something that should never have been able to exist.
The man lowered his head. His breathing was slow. Exhausted.
Yet his eyes remained open. He was waiting as he always had.
Then the darkness changed. A presence entered the prison.
The chains immediately tightened. The man lifted his head.
World stood before him. There was no face. No body that could be properly understood.
