Reinhard's consciousness plummeted through darkness once more. The familiar sensation of falling, of being pulled back into the dream, overtook him after everyone went to sleep.
His hand froze on the handle, body going rigid as awareness fled elsewhere.
When vision returned, he floated in the void.
Odin stood before him, or rather, Reinhard observed through Odin's perspective, seeing what the transformed transcendent saw.
The young being floated in the void that he instinctively realized before was now Ginnungagap, surrounded by the components of his vision. Ymir's transformed body spread across space, making a conscious earth, living seas, bone-mountains, and the skull-sky. The old realms waited at the edges of perception, all suspended, ready for integration.
