Prologue

White. 

That’s was all that was visible. There is no horizon, no sky, no ground. Just a vast emptiness. 

“Not again”

This wasn’t the first time this had happened. This is a reoccurring dream. No matter what was being dreamt of before hand, be it an outrageous fantasy or recollections of days gone, it would always morph into something more sinister. Starting with this child ending up alone in a white void

Indeed the nothingness slowly changed. Eventually the young dreamer found himself in a room. Primarily made of Metal with pipes lining the walls. A pale glow bathing everything and making the atmosphere clinical.

“Please not again.”

He knew what would happen next. What must always happen next. With no way to stop, he turned around. Before him was a window and outside of it, in stark contrast to the nothingness, was a universe of stars and in the foreground of it all, a lone planet. A blue marble floating in the expanse.

Earth. As seen from The Ring.

He had never been to The Ring, this is fact. But the detail in the environment and outside was too precise. It cannot simply be a figment of an imagination gone rampant. How could he even begin to conceive of the planet, it’s oceans, it’s continents, even it’s clouds outside with such accuracy?

It is terrifying.

“No!”

The dream has passed, it’s now a nightmare. No matter how many times the scenario plays out, no matter what protesting thoughts came to mind there is no changing what happens next.

Psssssssssssssssssssh.

The Glass Panel that separates space from this room had ruptured, so too had the force field outside. The divide was growing larger and larger. The air was draining out. Panic and instinct kicked and in and the child’s breaths were becoming shorter and quicker. 

Finally the vacuum of space prevailed. The boy was sucked outside and into the cold embrace of the infinite. His mind gripped by terror, the primordial fear of death. Growing ever colder his vision started to fade, he could no longer see the stars. Even his the planet, his home, faded into the black.

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