The Mirror-Current of the River God had been a world of obsidian glass, but as the Kashima Maru drifted deeper into the Astral Threshold, the glass began to fray. The transition was silent and surreal. The flat, black surface of the water began to sprout crystalline structures that looked like frozen salt, and the air which was once merely cold became a thin, dry vacuum that felt as though it were trying to pull the moisture out of the human crew's pores.
Ren Hanshin stood on the observation deck, motionless. He had not moved for six hours. He did not blink, and his chest did not rise or fall with the rhythm of human breath. To the sailors who hurried past him, he looked like a statue carved from starlight and obsidian.
[Synchronization: 55.7%]
[Condition: Biological Rejection / Celestial Transition]
[Mana Reserve: 150 / 150]
