Shadows in bright corridors (I)

One of the stranger things about light is that it refracts and splinters yet finds no purchases in the Luminiferous Aether. Had you asked a physicist he would have mentioned that the wave particle duality rendered it unneeded, and no evidence of it was ever located. When given a medium such as salt water, it took a few dozen meters to snuff it out entirely. 

Three Dark Waters, Steward of the darkest, deepest place in all the land, were preparing to leave their domain as a group for the first time in memory. Sin sponge was ill suited for traversing above the waves, so instead a very dark whale, the progenitor of the doom whale line was choosing to ferry them from the depths to the surface. 

They were not the only group moving at this moment, Descent way down in the mantle depths of earth was also preparing. Her part in affairs was not needed in the selection to come. Instead, she spoke to her friend over the new transmission array that was put in a few weeks ago.