The passage through the portal was violent.
Reidar's body twisted through a space that shouldn't exist. He felt the same crushing pressure he faced when he first went through the portal that sent him to the Ignis world, squeezing his chest, his skull, and his bones as the cold bypassed his resistances.
The temperature was so far below zero that his lungs tried to breathe something that wasn't air while his eyes saw colors that had no names.
Then it ended.
Reidar hit the ground hard. However, he didn't end up on ash, as he feared; instead, he landed on actual grass—not ash, not stone, but real grass.
Though the impact was still strong enough that it knocked the air out of his lungs and made him roll for several meters until he came to a stop on his back.
He gasped, forcing air into his chest, and stared up at a blue sky with white, fluffy clouds drifting overhead, while the air no longer smelled like sulfur but instead carried the scent of damp soil and grass.
