Overwhelming, Intoxicating Fear

--A transportation spell? Again? But what used it? The door?

It was a slightly different feeling than the magic used by Beatrice to send them to Primordia, it wasn't a gnawing, bright light that surrounded him, nor was there a gut-twisting amount of g-forces pulling onto him. He was surrounded by darkness, feeling as if the shapeless shadows were guiding him into an unknown destination.

"--"

Attempting to open his mouth to yell out, "Iris!", nothing came out. No air inhabited his lungs, but he didn't feel the need to breathe in this current of darkness.

"--Stranger. Foreigner. Otherworlder. Ren Nakamura."

A disembodied voice spoke to him, the mysterious voice carried through the darkness as if existing from all directions around him.