Once again, space itself split into two. As if my body dropped into an event horizon, the sight of the world around me started to narrow up, before both ends of what I could see turned into a circle. A moment later, and nothing but endless darkness surrounded me.
For a few moments, that was the state of the situation. With nothing capable of attacking me, with nothing capable of amusing me, I just waited.
And surely enough, it didn't take long for the magical effects to wear off. The recurring stone melted under the pressure of so strongly compressed magic. Without the core that would sustain the spell, the magic structures quickly dissolved into nothingness… But the reality still had to catch up.
