Keres pulled Malachi all the way into the darkest corners of Nyx's home. The rooms he usually never visited.
His mother was a very old goddess.
She had things collected from universes he could scarcely imagine. All of them were sentimental to her in one way or another.
Keres stopped at a door nestled near the end of a long hallway.
She did not bother to knock and instead flung the door wide open without waiting.
Malachi braced himself to see some sort of shrine or possibly something perverted, but the reality was anything but.
He stood beneath a sprawling night sky dotted with millions of twinkling stars and a crescent moon hanging in the distance.
A virtual ocean of golden sand lay before them, glimmering every bit as brightly as the stars hanging above it.
"Over there."
Keres pointed to the very center of the seemingly infinite domain.
There, they could see their mother one-sidedly bullying a large male figure in metal armor.
