The man felt like he was falling up into the sky… into starlight and the darkness between them. After a tense moment, the feeling of solidity returned beneath Ondua's feet as a grand hall materialized around him. Giant pillars of crystal rose toward a massive ceiling… that seemed to shift between bare stone and cloudless blue sky with each blink.
At the far end of the hall he stood in was a crystalline throne. It sat elevated on a dais with steps glowing at the edges with a sense of deep 'power'. The facets of the familiar substance… his very Element given form, reflected fragments of his own memories.
'How…?'
His own battles during the last Descent sparkled in some, while others showed his Challenge duel at the wedding. The son-in-law that impressed him fought 'side by side' with him as the images bled together until he could barely tell which fighter was which.
