In a brief moment, a speck of time worthless to someone capable of living millions of years, a connection was cut.
The space that surrounded Kiara darkened as the voice of the person she was closest to continued to echo in her ears, making her deaf to the events that took place around her. Her world, lonely and dark already, had lost one of the few lights left. Covered behind droplets of dark red blood that, after lingering in the surroundings for a few moments, finally landed on her skin.
Only her friend had died, yet both their hearts had stopped.
Around her, hundreds of monstrous beings marked with the distinctive power of an aspect of existence made their way through the interdimensional portal, filling the surrounding space with an obnoxiously pungent and oddly sweet scent.