Nathan's vision blurred suddenly, the familiar sensations washing over him in a wave that had become almost routine by now—the disorienting shift of reality, the peculiar weightlessness that accompanied dimensional travel, the momentary vertigo that made his stomach flip even as his feet remained planted firmly on solid ground. The tiredness followed immediately after, that bone-deep exhaustion that seemed to settle into his very marrow, accompanied by the distinctive mind-wobbling sensation of consciousness adjusting to an entirely different plane of existence.
When his sight cleared and the world solidified around him once more, he found himself standing in the breathtaking expanse of Demeter's garden.
