The Mightiest

Though it was a complete abyss, there wasn't an absence of all; a small trail of stone steps led through the pond of darkness. 

In her hand, the pale woman manifested an obsidian cane that bore a skull, using it to guide her steps carefully into the realm of death. Every tap of it echoed throughout the boundless void, leaving even that subtle, but only sound to be swallowed by the ever-stretching dark. 

'Here,' Khalida found. 

It was with a press of her cane did the shadows part to reveal the corpse of the young Invictus. 

"Raise," she commanded. 

From the abyss, cold hands stretched out, grabbing hold of the limp body before hoisting it up. 

Behind the lifted corpse, a nebulous plant bloomed; of silver petals like the wings of an avian, eyes unveiled upon its form as thorns of bone waved. A giant blossom; an entity of origins riddled in the abyss.