The dark night was alive with the sound of muffled thunder, deep and heavy, resounding as it roared.
The youth was a light sleeper, and the slight trembling of the Entangling Void Armor leaned against the flank of the Camel Beast proved its owner was awakening from a brief, confusing dream.
The sky near the Bart Great Rift Valley was half-obscured by clouds, with thunder booming, while the other half was a silent expanse of pitch-black night.
They were distinctly separate, not affecting each other, and not far away, a massive column of clouds stretching into the top of the firmament was continuously swirling, like Giants from the myths reaching out from the Earth Core Abyss, stirring the domain of the Gods set upon the Seven-layered Heavenly Ladder.
A pair of green eyes opened, slightly frantic, as the youth breathed rapidly, removing his helmet to look up at the sky, at that distant and obscure black veil.
