Duncan and Alice stood at the top of the stairs leading to the bottom of the ship, witnessing a bizarre and horrifying spectacle—the bottom of the Homeloss was in a state of disarray and fragmentation, and beyond the shattered cabins was evidently a kind of void suffused with an endless, dim, twilight glow.
Was this the true "structure of the ship's bottom" of the Homeloss? Then what was that thing outside the fragmented cabins?
Could such a sight exist beneath the sea level of the Endless Sea?
Duncan cautiously took two steps forward and entered the fragmented cabins. He stepped onto the largest piece of wooden debris and looked back in the direction he had come from.
That "final door" still stood silently in its place, fixed on a floating plank, with a dark staircase behind it that slanted upward—however, around the door, there were no walls that should have been there, only emptiness.
The door was solitary, floating in this space.