A/N: I don't do this often but I couldn't help but give them credit. Big thank you to FunCat for suggesting and inspiring me to make this change in the story. Please enjoy! I know the story got a lot more fun for me now.
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"Tch! Pathetic…"
"You are useless… as a human and also as a beast…"
"Look at how you act…"
"You aren't a person… nor do you qualify to be a weapon either."
Ash's eyes snapped open.
Or so it felt.
He looked around.
He was somewhere else. Somewhere he'd never seen, never even dreamed of…
No sky.
No wind.
No frost.
There was nothing. Yet somehow, there was shape. A strange topography of shifting black and gray, like shadows pretending to be terrain. The ground beneath his feet felt soft, like mist pressed into form. Faint flickers of something- light? memory? - danced at the very edges of his vision, vanishing the moment he tried to focus.
