"Shit… where am I now?"
The words escaped my lips in a breathless whisper, echoing faintly through the endless void around me.
I blinked, once—twice—but nothing changed.
Darkness.
Utter, consuming black.
I stood—or at least I thought I was standing—in the middle of an empty space.
There was no ground beneath me, no ceiling above, and no horizon to anchor my senses. Just… dark.
Not the soft, soothing kind that comes before sleep. No, this was thick and silent, like it had swallowed light itself.
I spun around slowly, trying to get some sense of where I was, but it was all the same. No wind. No sound.
"Cheshire…!!! Alice!!" I called out.
"..."
No reply came, but now I can confirm this wasn't a random prank from that whimsical cat….
It wasn't like I'd done anything to trigger this.
The last few days had been calm—remarkably so.
