“It's a rush, ain't it?” Although Eden couldn't recall physically opening her eyes, there she was, staring at Cliff's grinning face. “You'll get used to it.”

Eden heaved, still trying to fathom what she had just experienced. She stood up from the bucket seat and looked around, her eyes wide as saucers, her body shivering. The two of them were standing in a small room about 8 feet in all directions that seemed to be made out of some sort of transparent glass, although it felt nothing like the common material. It was held together by strange metallic bars, and as Eden peered through it, she could see air, clouds, and the bright sun. She could see through not only the walls, but the floor below her as well. Her strawberry leather Gucci sandal-heels were less than a millimeter between her and the atmosphere.

She screamed.

“Woah, woah, settle down, there!” Cliff placed his scarred arms on her shivering shoulders, mere twigs in comparison. “I know it's a shocker, but we're in the same place, same day, same time. Just a different dimension.”

She turned around to face him, her black mascara long since smeared by tears. “Where...the hell...are we?!”

“We're in the dimension commonly known as Midgarde,” Cliff explained, retrieving his shotgun from the capsule-seats in which they had sat just moments before. “Just follow me,” he uttered, walking calmly across the transparent floor.

Well, if that thing can hold him...Eden followed him warily.

“It's æsotech,” Cliff said, still ahead of her. “Three layers of the stuff, actually.” He smiled. “You're not gonna break it.”

She sighed, feeling a little bit more at ease -- but far from relaxed. The two of them walked through the corridor, clouds moving about them, the sun shining, but yet no heat penetrated the 'æsotech.' They appeared in a large, warehouse-like room, featuring rows and rows of the same sort of chambers that they had just come from. Cliff led Eden down the hallway to a thin light-blue door that looked as if it could be broken through simply from sneezing on it.