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The realm of darkness is a realm that had been cursed to eternal night decades ago.
This realm is slowly dying, its air is getting polluted by dark magic.
It is only a matter of time before the realm becomes entirely inhospitable.
Luckil...
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Miri met the foreign ground on the other side, her head pounding.
She picked herself up off the ground, head in hands, and looked around. She had done it. She was on the other side now.
But she couldn't remember how she had gotten here. This realm was strange. It was cast in a violet glow that seemed to partially transcend her vampiric senses.
"Mother," she remembered, her memories coming back in waves like the sea. The ground was a deep brown with cracks all over it, and this realm was incredibly vast. The ground stretched out for as far as the eye could see. Miri had never been in a place so spacious before.
Tall, menacing towers stuck up from the surface like black knives. And the sky shifted constantly under her gaze, flowing through shades of indigo and violet. This realm seemed so strange. So fantastical. But Miri couldn't help but notice how it was just as dark as her realm was.
Still, she was grateful for the fact that there was no sun here. She had heard agonising tails of how the sun burnt their delicate, pale skin and did not ever want to experience what being in daylight would feel like. She couldn't understand how Jacob had been so eager to see the sun. Then she remembered how he was human.
It would take her forever to find her mother in this realm, she realised. It was rumoured that her father Vampire King Velorak travelled to this realm often to resurrect the dead. If that was the case, then why hadn't her resurrected his wife yet? Her mother? Miri didn't want to ponder such questions, so she shrugged the rumours off as just that. Rumours.
The longer she stayed in the Realm of the Dead, the more she began to notice its residence. She wasn't here alone, she realised.
Beyond her were lost souls, bright blue flames, lingering, hovering, fading. Miri felt out of place here as someone whose soul was still inside her body. As though she were the only one in the realm who was alive. But she knew that somewhere, out there, were Jacob, Xander and Izuri. But she was not interested in either of them in the slightest. Only in locating her mother.
Along with these blue souls, were miniature blue wisps that seemed to call her name. She knew their voices weren't flowing through the air but somehow reached her head as though through telekinesis. It was as though they had managed to infiltrate the voice in her mind and replace it.
Miri hoped her sanity was not embarking on a gradual downwards spiral, but she genuinely believed that the wisps were calling out to her. 'Follow', is all they would say. She had to abide their will when their collective voice became too much for her ears to bare.
"Alright, enough!" she yelled out into the cold and dark. She was going to follow these wisps, let her take them to wherever they wanted her to be, just so she could finally be in silence. So that she could think.
