Phei emerged into darkness and his first impression was heat.
It rolled over him with enough force that an ordinary human would have been boiled from inside out before properly understanding where they had arrived.
Where they were was a hall but it was more like a furnace wearing the skin of a hall, waves heat so hot it felt like he was being cooked inside a stone and the air itself seemed steeped in it, dense and heavy with power, carrying a faint metallic sweetness beneath something older and stranger that immediately made Phei's blood stir.
His Primordial Blood did not merely notice it much of lunging towards that power and pure hunger.
He did not move until his eyes adjusted first in the waves of heat but he'd already spread his perception out.
