The Estuary

There was the sound of wind whistling in Sunny's ears. 

He was falling.

Flying through a sea of darkness, lost and disoriented, unsure of where he was.

'The… Estuary…'

The wind howled louder, and Sunny felt his body plummeting through it at terrible speed. 

Belatedly, he remembered the need to summon the Dark Wing and slow down his fall.

Or summon the shadows and turn himself into a monstrous butterfly.

Or even a crow…

But it was too late for that. 

Dazed, he caught a glimpse of an enormous black edifice swiftly approaching him from the darkness. It was like a rough, irregularly shaped, giant sphere of black stone that hovered in the void, eternal and indestructible. Strange mountains rose from its surface, hollow on the inside…

It looked like a giant stone heart. 

Perhaps it was.