Floor 13 was an assault on the senses from the moment they stepped through the gate.
The wind hit first, a howling gale that tore at clothes and hair and threatened to knock anyone under a hundred pounds clean off their feet. Helena, Seira's rogue teammate, actually stumbled backward into Ren, who caught her with one massive arm while his other hand kept his shield planted like an anchor.
"What the hell is this?" Astrid shouted over the roar, her words barely audible despite being only three feet away.
"The Canyons of Echoes!" Dante shouted back, squinting against the wind as he surveyed the terrain ahead.
It was a maze of towering stone formations, red and orange cliffs that rose hundreds of feet into a sky filled with constantly moving clouds. The wind screamed through gaps between the formations, creating a chaos of sounds that layered over each other until individual notes became impossible to distinguish.
