That night, Cierra cried herself to sleep. When she opened her eyes, Cid was sitting next to her, and they were both somewhere new. All around them was the stench of something rotten, as though meat was rotting somewhere nearby and had been for weeks. There was no light around them, the sky an inky blot except where an outline of what Cierra assumed was a sun tried to shine through. The circular edge glowed white, reminding her of images she had seen of an eclipse online.
The ground itself was uneven, the terrain covered in rocks as big as Cierra's feet. Trying to look around them, she found that parts of the ground were suspiciously flat. Cautiously, she place a foot on one such spot, testing the ground. She pulled her foot back as it sunk into the ground.
Her heart raced; was this another realm being taken over by nightmares?
She tried to remember what she had been thinking of before she fell asleep; all she could
