Chapter 64
Surrounded by insane waves of heat, Nadia opened her eyes to a massive body of light.
The space around her was blinding—pure, molten gold in every direction, pulsing with a rhythm that matched her own heartbeat. Waves of searing energy rolled outward from the central mass, crashing against invisible boundaries before recoiling and surging again. The air—if it could be called air—felt thick and alive, pressing against her skin like liquid fire that didn't burn, only filled.
"Where am I?" she asked herself, voice echoing strangely, as though spoken underwater.
She scanned her surroundings. Nothing solid existed here—no ground, no horizon, only endless radiant expanse. At the center floated an enormous sphere of light, brighter than any sun she had ever seen. It swelled and contracted in slow, deliberate cycles—expansion flooding the void with fresh waves of heat, compression pulling everything inward like a heartbeat drawing breath.
