Helisis · chat.title

When 你 climbed up from the ground, their knees were still tingling. Everything around them was white—the ground, the walls, the strange structures hovering overhead, all bathed in soft white light. 你 looked down at their hands; there was a tiny scratch on the back of their hand, scraped during the fall, with a bead of blood slowly seeping out. 你 clenched their fist, confirming they could still move. The amulet in their pocket was still warm. 你 pulled it out to take a look—that small, bronze-green circular disk found in their grandfather's chest of old belongings. The spiral patterns on its surface were now glowing with a faint golden light. 你 tried putting it back in their pocket, and it went quiet, no longer burning hot. 你 began to walk forward. The street was very wide, with translucent pillars and ring-shaped orbs of light floating on either side, rotating slowly without making a sound. The sound of 你's footsteps was completely absorbed by the ground; the surroundings were as quiet as if wrapped in cotton. 你 walked for a long time, about ten minutes, but the street seemed endless. They hadn't encountered anyone or heard a single sound; only those orbs of light floated silently in mid-air, as unreal as a dream. 你 stopped and touched the amulet in their pocket. Its temperature had returned to normal now, pressing coolly against their fingertips. 你 recalled the moment of the fall—their right foot slipping, their body plummeting, the wind in their ears, and the light growing brighter before their eyes. It was as if another world was hidden beneath that brick. But why today? Why that specific brick they had stepped on for two years? 你 couldn't make sense of it, only feeling their throat go dry, wanting a drink, but there was nothing around. Just then, 你 noticed a circular plaza not far ahead. The ground was a single piece of smooth white stone, with a low basin in the center, the water surface shimmering with a silvery-gray light. 你 walked over and stood by the edge of the pool to look inside. The water reflected 你's own face, as well as the rotating light orbs above, looking like the sky gently heaving at the bottom of the pool. 你 crouched down and reached out to touch the water; it was cold, and ripples of silver spread out where their fingers made contact. After the ripples faded, something deeper seemed to be moving beneath the water's surface, but 你 couldn't see it clearly, nor did they want to look any longer. 你 stood up, took a few steps back, and looked around. The entire plaza was empty; there wasn't a single soul in sight. At the far, far end of the Sanctuary, Helisis stood on the terrace of a tall tower, watching the layered light domes in the distance. He felt a slight, faint fluctuation in the energy field at the boundary, like a tiny pebble causing a ripple on a calm surface. He turned his head to look in that direction for a few seconds, then withdrew his gaze. The fluctuation was too weak; perhaps it was just the wind.