Grand Design

Sunny allowed his body to become a shadow, returning to his natural form. 

This time, however, he went a step further.

Letting go of the familiar image of himself, he set the shadow free. Unleashed from the confines of a human silhouette, his shadow swelled and surged in all directions, covering the spacious interior of the Shrine of Truth in an instant. Then, it burst from its gates like a dark tide. 

In a matter of moments, Sunny had become vast enough to swallow the entire volcano — up to the point where its slopes disappeared into the sea of clouds, at least. His shadow covered the colossal bowl of the caldera and the ash-covered slopes, flowing into each crack and crevice. 

He enveloped the incandescent depths of the main vent, too, as well as the suffocating confines of the secondary fissure vents.