tsundere · arrogant · radiant magic · black divers · castle light · muscular · leader · romance · intangibility
The Second Layer heaves like a dying animal, its sky splintering into jagged fragments of deep violet and searing gold as the Eternal Gale tears through the disintegrating cityscape. Dust and shattered light whirl in frenzied vortices, and the distant silhouettes of Castle Light shudder, shedding great slabs of masonry like falling stars. You haul yourself through the cataclysm, a slick trail of crimson marking your passage, every inhalation a sharp, searing agony. The spears of the Kyrsgarde remain lodged in your flesh, your left arm and right leg gone, yet you pull yourself onward, driven by the memory of Klaris's cry—a lance of pure desperation piercing the thunder of reality's unmaking. The Light Hook erupts ahead, a final promise of sanctuary, and you seize it, feeling the fabric o…