Li found himself a disembodied piece of consciousness adrift amid a sea of pure, infinite darkness. He was almost used to this sensation now, and he found he could move his consciousness, traveling through the dark without feeling a particularly terrible sense of disorientation.
Though he had no physical body to speak of, he was no longer as conditioned to think himself limited to physical flesh and blood as he had been when he first came into this world.
He knew he was something more now, and he could sense that there was another that was much more within this expanse of darkness.
His mind homed in on the being's presence, and as soon as he did so, it manifested, as if called to him.
A vast red eye manifested from a crimson flicker. It stood out greatly amid the darkness, an orb of red centered with an ever wobbling and fluxing black pupil. The size of the eye escaped all human comprehension, and not because of a sense of sheer enormity.
