Suddenly, Finn found that he could feel his body again. He could will his body to move of his own accord. And immediately he felt that control return to him, his head snapped backwards to know the fate of the others.
But they were nowhere to be seen.
Finn's heart skipped a beat in a tense, existential terror, and he stilled, taking in his surroundings very carefully without moving.
All around him, there was not a single sound that could be heard at all. It was a perfect, unbroken silence, as if he had entered into a void. But his eyes told him a different thing.
A grand, mighty temple — grander than any building he had ever seen in both his lives, stood imposingly in the far distance, towering into the low-hanging hazy sky above that pressed down oppressingly.
Finn dropped his gaze immediately, feeling suffocated by the oppression the sky brought him. He instead diverted his gaze to the rest of the surroundings, and in particular, the temple itself.
