Alex took a slow, measured breath as he stared into the impossible scene before him. Every instinct in his body warned him that what he had just witnessed existed far beyond his ability to comprehend. His mind could barely process the fragments of information entering his consciousness, and yet he knew with absolute certainty that none of it belonged to the world he understood.
The only reason he had been able to witness even a glimpse of that terrifying vision was because of the mysterious treasure fragment protecting him. Without its power surrounding his soul, he would have remained completely blind to the existence of those unimaginable beings.
Even then, he had not truly seen them.
