While a transformation bloomed in a distant and unreachable domain, inside another domain entirely, the figure of The Groundskeeper had an ashen expression inside an obsidian gold sea.
Before him, an encased crystalline structure floated from the obsidian waters, its surface perfectly transparent despite the chaos that should have corrupted any attempt at ordered form. Within this crystalline prison lay the body of an obsidian serpent that was eating its own tail.
At this moment...
BOOM!
The obsidian eyes of this serpent opened as they pulsed with Chaos, and the instant they opened, the figure of The Groundskeeper crumpled and fell backward as if he had lost consciousness entirely. His golden crystallized form collapsed against the obsidian waters without resistance, his unfathomable Depth meaning nothing against whatever had just awakened.
