Finn's consciousness dove deep into the core of the Ferropteryx soul mass, and the Aspect Adaptation began.
The first thing that struck him was the jarring wrongness of it all.
With Geri and Freki, even though he had been fumbling around without knowing exactly what was going on, the process had still been gradual, giving him time to slowly realize things along the way.
But this time, perhaps because of all the priming for the last two days, his consciousness entered into a trance immediately.
He instantly found himself suspended in an impossible sky. Azure stretched endlessly in all directions, above and below, with no ground, no horizon or reference point at all.
For a second, he thought he had somehow bypassed a lot of steps and gone directly into the Ferropteryx's true psyche, and that this was a core memory…
But that thought was quenched into nothingness immediately, snuffed out just as quickly as it had come.
A vast presence made itself known.
