Adam walked through darkness.
His bare feet made no sound as they touched the shifting floor of silent black stone. Each step sent ripples of faint golden light across the ground, illuminating walls that didn't exist and ceilings that stretched into infinity. Around him, the world pulsed with a quiet, deep heartbeat—slow and heavy, like the echo of a giant's breath under the skin of the earth.
He moved with calm certainty. His black robe whispered around his ankles with each step, trailing thin shadows that curled across the faint light spreading under him. His golden eyes burned steadily, unblinking, locked forward with a gaze that saw through everything. Through walls. Through distance. Through time itself.
The Core waited ahead.
