Chapter 85: The Void Walker
There was no pain in the darkness.
I was floating. The crushing weight of the Primeval Bear was gone. The screaming of my pack was gone. There was only silence and the endless cold of the grave.
You returned early, a voice whispered.
It did not come from a direction. It came from everywhere. It was the voice of the earth itself. It was the same voice that had welcomed me when the Vampire Lord buried me alive.
I opened my spiritual eyes.
I stood on a plane of black glass. Above me there were no stars. Below me there was only the reflection of my own broken soul.
"I am not dead," I said. "Send me back."
You are broken, the voice observed. Your body is shattered. Your magic is exhausted. If I send you back you will only watch them die.
A vision appeared in
