As the words left Alex's mouth, the world around him shifted instantly.
His bedroom walls dissolved into swirling starlight. The ceiling vanished, replaced by an endless void speckled with slowly turning galaxies. The floor beneath his feet became a vast, dark expanse dotted with countless glowing motes—like he was standing at the center of the cosmos itself.
Time seemed to stretch and soften as his consciousness fully stepped into the Astral Domain—a space that belonged to him and him alone.
Alex stood there for a moment, in the middle of that endless starfield.
With a flick of his fingers, the space around him rippled and reshaped.
