Light swallowed Lucien and Marie.
The world flipped like a page and gravity rewrote itself mid-breath.
Then—
They hit something solid.
Marie sucked in a breath beside him.
"...Okay. That's new."
They were no longer on the broken plains below.
They were standing on the inverted stone disk they'd seen from afar… Only now, from inside its world.
Above the real arena, the crowd watched, awestruck, as the viewing windows shifted. Perspectives snapped from the beast-filled valley up into a dizzying new structure.
Gasps rippled.
"Did they just go up?"
"No… look, that's the floating disk from earlier!"
"Is that… a castle turned inside-out?!"
Inside the disk, the view was surreal.
