Then there was the dream. After Aegis looked like he was being turned by Abyssal energy, Kain had expended all of his spiritual energy in order to fuel his resistance and collapsed. But that collapse had led to what felt like a very real 'nightmare'. That nightmare had plunged him into a writhing abyss where he stumbled blind through pulsing tunnels filled with worms, stumbled upon a city of abyssal horrors, and felt the terrible gaze of a Demigod and even a colossal eye open beneath the world itself.
He had jolted awake convinced it was a dream, yet every detail—the squirming masses, the harvested captives, the altar-lined pit—had felt too vivid, too real. So much so, that Kain even wondered if his mind had indeed been briefly connected to the Abyss.
Were the seeming connections he and his contracts had to the Abyss, also 'coincidences?'
He masked his turmoil, and refocused on Airalai's words.
