...As Jaygon followed the shell, the walls became thinner and he could see through them. One side of the tunnel was ice cold. You could see ice on the walls. It looked like a windshield when it's winter. When he walked over to the opaqueless wall he felt his nose and feet freeze.
The other side of the crawl space was hot as a furnace. The heat from this side steamed up the path. The seashell glowed through the steam and slowed near the ice. The side of the passage with steam was bright orange fluorescence. Lava oozed from the cracks, but wouldn't move past them.
Something kept the volcanic rock from creeping in. The frost couldn't go past a certain point and neither could the lava.
"How odd." Jaygon pondered.
It was like the channel was alive and made its own choices. What was the tunnel? Was it a monster that's hidden? Would Jaygon and Lucinda find out they've been eaten by...something?
What neither of them knew was that they were traveling deeper in the ocean. They didn't know this, but the depth was below 800 feet now.
Leviathian wasn't just one creature - it's several. Each monster is attached to another one, like an atom diagram.
What they didn't know is the creature had been consuming areas for thousands of years. Since the world was created there was a plan to destroy it. A scheme devised by Sliver.
A heinous fiend who hated good and wanted to destroy everything. It started from the inside out and began with the core and went backwards. Sliver reattached itself near new areas of the world. It wasn't motivated by power, greed, or jealousy. It only wanted to destroy everything!
The pit wasn't a monster, but it was alive and had several facets of itself, like cuts in a diamond or multi-faceted dice. It liked to be mischievous and play around.
The pathway had a name - Lucid. At one time it was a sprite until he was punished. He was supposed to guide people, but instead was selfish and didn't care about humanity. Lucid lost his ability to see clearly and wanted people to go on a wild goose chase after their dreams. You'd think he's a villain, but he isn't. Just a misguided magical creature who could be a sprite again when Lucid learns his lesson.
Everything is not what it seems here. What else would Lucinda and Jaygon face next?...
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