Nothing.
There was nothing but black sand in all directions with an infinite blanket of void surrounding her.
'Ok, this is weird. Not only am I on a flat beach of darkness, but the whole surrounding space is just... nothing. Ah, great.'
As most of her vitality and strength returned, Sezon stood up after a few moments of rest. She began to wonder what had happened to the grey band of light she'd seen before.
"Hmm, ok, one thing isn't adding up here. First of all how can I see in the dark, and why only so far? And where did that band of grey light go??"
As she took her first steps, a sudden glow of grey struck the lower corner of her eyes. She caught it in her peripheral vision—grey light pooling on the ground. She had to find the source. Turning around after walking a short distance, she saw nothing. The light had vanished, as if it had been nothing more than a sudden burst of light that decided to turn itself off.
'So ghost lights now. Ah, I'm dead, aren't I?'
The thought suddenly made her realize the horror she'd experienced before waking up.
'Wait, am I still on Earth? What happened? What happened after the—'
'A—after the black sand...'
Her expression went dark as she realized what had happened in the middle of her daily life. The destruction of Earth. How everything around her had slowly unraveled into fine dark sand—mountains, forests, buildings, people. And all of it had flowed into the heavens.
'I—I remember now. It was all flowing into something above, and people who looked... People who looked at it turned to sand... And I looked...'
'It was... It was... Ahhhh..!'
Struggling to remember what she'd seen and what had happened to her, she could take a guess just from the others who had looked while she was there.
'Sand. Am I sand now?!'
She touched her body, desperate for proof that she wasn't sand.
'Ok, ok—not sand. Just me. Just me in the voidy sand beach...'
Sezon glanced down and noticed her shoeprints in the sand. After confirming they were just prints, she moved on. Then another burst of grey light flashed directly behind her. She spun around—nothing. Worried, she turned back and quickened her pace. More bursts of grey erupted behind her every few moments, each one growing bigger than the last. Fear gripped her. She broke into a full sprint. The bursts kept coming every few feet, relentless, until her legs gave out and she couldn't run anymore.
After her second-to-last step, another massive grey burst pooled up around her. She doubled over, gasping for air, hands gripping her knees.
"What is with this place?! It's chasing me with grey bursts of light?!"
Sezon turned around and immediately stumbled backward, hitting the ground. Her heart was pounding relentlessly, because of what stood before her.
"FUCK!!"