The moment Arran passed through the portal, his Sense was hit with an overwhelming barrage of Essence, so intense it left him reeling with shock.
At first, he thought it had been an attack — someone lying in wait behind the portal, ready to ambush whoever passed through it. And Arran had fallen right into the trap, taken by surprise and knocked senseless before he even knew what hit him.
But slowly, he began to realize that this was no attack. The blinding pain wasn't an enemy's ambush, but the Essence of his own world.
After countless years in the Shadow Realm, his Sense had been sharpened beyond recognition. In a world that held only deathly silence, he had learned to hear a whisper from a thousand miles away.
Yet he had returned to his own world. And here, Essence was ever-present — so much of it that his Sense was completely overwhelmed.
