The sky above the Forest of Lamentation suddenly turned inside out.
The dawn that had just begun to creep upward was abruptly swallowed by an absolute darkness. It wasn't Wabil's black fog, nor was it a dense storm cloud, but rather a pure void—as if someone had just switched off all the light in the universe. Then, in that stifling silence, six points of light appeared. They drifted down slowly—six entities with auras that clashed against one another: white, red, blue, green, brown, and purple.
They landed before the Maiden's star-ship, which was already half-shattered and smoking. The ground did not shake. There was no sound of impact. There was only a crushing silence—the same pressure that had made Wabil gasp for her life earlier.
