BOOK II
Chapter One: Inferos
Gienah wore torn away from her dreamless sleep and woke up panting. She raised her head and saw she had fallen asleep in the library. Her finger was burning. She looked at the silver ring. It was glowing. It turned a scolding red, then black, then blackness submerged her and the lifeless body of Gienah Elladora Black fell to the floor with a thud.
Gienah inhaled sharply, the sound echoed around her. Gienah's heart was racing. Death consumed her. She opened her eyes and saw a blood red sky, with a burning black sun beating its heat upon the scorching earth where she lay. Gienah knew as once she was no longer any place on earth. The black sun was far too close to the surface of this world and there were no clouds in this wasteland. Dark rolling planes of earth of shades of deep red. Gienah felt she was looking at everything through a pair of red tinted sunglasses. Gienah drew her wand and got to her feet. The ring had returned to its usual plain silver.
Surely it couldn't be Gienah thought as she turned and saw a vast lake of black water. Had she been summoned to the underworld? Gienah looked around at every direction. Not a living creature in sight. Only a familiar overwhelming feeling of despair that lingered in the dead air. Gienah had been summoned to Inferos.