The world changed the moment Avin's eyes opened.No longer was he simply seeing — he was perceiving, every detail unraveling into the true shape that had always been there, waiting to be revealed.
At first, he thought it was a trick of exhaustion — the aftereffect of too much strain. But then he blinked, and the veil between worlds tore open.
Behind the examiner stood it.
A towering, translucent being that bent its massive frame to keep from piercing the ceiling. Its form shimmered like smoke and glass, humanoid in silhouette but far from human. Its limbs were grotesquely long, the arms dragging like ropes of muscle and shadow, and it leaned on its knuckles like a monstrous gorilla, the ground faintly cracking under invisible weight.
