References to the Aurora Borealis, Greek temples, and the Koryaksky or Koryakskaya Sopka volcano in Russia.
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Shuuhei sighed at the sight before entering the cave.
Her inner world is bleak. A barren wasteland of sand dunes and crumbling stone. All plant life was shriveled up, black with death. Dim light came from the slice of moon that sat in a starless sky. The only time the strong winds weren't blowing sand everywhere was when they blew snow and ice across the landscape.
Only two things were able to permanently survive in this terrain. A demon sword spirit and a crazed hollow.
But it hadn't always been like that. Before the days of Tousen and the hollow. Before when she was free to play tag with her laughing zanpakuto spirit and her face wasn't marred with the loss of her friends and right eye.
In the center of her inner world was a volcano. Lava veins merged with the landscape until they disappeared into fields of wheat and forests of trees with trunks so big that she couldn't wrap her arms around them even if there was seven of her. The wind blew snow then too, but they were light and feathery flakes that could barely coat the ground on the worst days. Windmills scattered across the wheat fields and open stone structures rested on the tops of mountains or hills.
And the sky….oh how she missed the old sky. Regardless of the time the sky would be lit up with twirling colors that always danced just as the wind.
"I'm surprised you remember how to get here." His voice came out as a sneer, of course when was it ever not anymore.
"Ohhhh! Why don't you insult her hair while you're at it? It would be hilarious if she decided to claw your eyes out!"
"Why are you here?"
"Merely proving a point." Her arm swept over the view behind her.
From a dune grew a mountain and from a mountain grew a sleeping giant. Steam poured from the volcano's vent.
"It's time for a change."
Clouds full of lightning and thunder gathered above the plum of ash.
"It's time to get angry."
And the ground of her world shook and crumbled with the explosion of her righteous fury.