His eyes widened with shock as his body quaked where he stood as he gazed into the depths of Gaia from within that cavity.
He saw the core of Gaia itself.
The innermost sphere at the epicenter of her depths.
He saw the core of Gaia.
It was not blindingly bright.
It was not made of lava.
No.
It was black.
And translucent.
He could see the light of the magma from the other side of the core peer through it in an ephemeral fusion of light and dark.
It was the negatron core of Gaia. What was truly astonishing was the fact that there was a large gap between the inner core and the mantle. A gap so large that it allowed him to see the core in its entirety from the point of maximum fear, which opened up towards the core.
The truth quickly dawned on him.
