In the center of the ruins, a man stood blinking at the brightness. He didn't know who he was or how he had gotten there. He only knew that for the first time in his life, his shadow was sharp, black, and perfectly clear.
When Elias looked through the violet haze of the sphere, the ruins of the observatory vanished. In their place stood a towering structure of glass and steel, bathed in a blinding, natural gold. He saw people laughing, their skin bronzed and healthy. He saw green things—vast, waving oceans of emerald leaves that he had only ever seen in tattered picture books. Dark Light
He realized the Dark Light wasn't just showing him a different world; it was swapping his reality for another. To bring the "Light" back to the Gray, he would have to give up everything that made him a part of it. In the center of the ruins, a man
Standing in the cold, silent ruins, Elias held the pulsing obsidian sphere. He looked at his pale, trembling hands, then back into the violet depths where the green leaves danced. When Elias looked through the violet haze of