The void stretched endlessly in every direction, a suffocating expanse of nothing that had become Nathan's entire world.
Time had lost all meaning. He had stopped counting the seconds, the minutes, the hours. They bled into each other, leaving only a vague sense of duration that felt both infinite and instantaneous. His body floated in perfect suspension, neither falling nor rising, simply existing in the space between spaces.
But he wasn't alone.
'Master, I am bored.'
Nathan felt the corner of his mouth twitch. Even in the void, even in this sensory wasteland where nothing existed except darkness and silence, Mirko's voice cut through the emptiness with the force of a battering ram.
'You have mentioned that seventeen times in the past hour,' Kuro observed dryly through the link.
'I am merely stating a fact! This Knight was not designed for inactivity! I require challenges! Adversaries! Something to stab!'
'There is nothing here to stab, Mirko.'
