[This is a bonus chapter dedicated to Ingris. Thank you for the gift. Words cannot begin to describe how happy I am.]
I listened. I had nothing else to do but to follow the voice. I drifted down slowly. The little light that I gave out no longer helped me that much. I could not see anything that was more than a few centimeters from me. I had no vision. All I had was the little trust that I did in the words of the mysterious voice that came from inside of me.
Thud.
I felt land. Rather than land, it was more like a jelly. Like a protective barrier. This was no ground. This was probably another barrier.
"Let us just hope that this is the last goddamn barrier. If there are more, then I will run out of time either way, and I do not want to die out here or get into trouble out there. One level will not matter that much. I do not want to do this, but I have no other choice." I resolved in my mind as I tried to pierce the barrier.