The corridor stretched before them like a wound in the world.
On either side, the dissolution zone consumed reality with the patient, implacable hunger that defined everything the Abyss touched. The walls of the corridor ...maintained by the combined effort of Aliyah's 7th Circle frost magic and Marius's dark-arts energy manipulation ...shimmered with the barely visible boundary between existence and void. Where the frost met the dissolution, ice crystals formed and dissolved in rapid succession, a visual representation of the constant battle between creation and annihilation that was playing out at a level of magical intensity that would have killed any practitioner below the 5th Circle.
