The rustling of the large areas of purplish-black shadows digging through the ground and the thumping sounds when they fell on the ground gradually softened and eventually silenced like a storm welcoming its end.
The beam from the torchlight shone on the ground and the circle of light revealed a layer of blurry white. The rugged and bumpy territory expanded further away into the darkness until it was too far to be seen.
Under the circle of light, other than the empty ground, there was nothing else. The two of them stood there absent-mindedly while gazing into the darkness further away, as if their minds and bodies were frozen in the blurry underground space.
