Interlude
There was thunder in the walls. That was the only way Sanji could think to describe it. Everything shook, and his room seemed to get smaller. The shadows seemed to get darker. Impossibly so. He felt that he was going blind in the darkness. He felt he was going crazy. He felt despair like he'd never felt before.
When the walls came down on top of him, he thought it was the end.
He never knew he could be so wrong.
Instead of crushing him, the stones melted away like sand and opened him up to the air. It was still darker than anything he'd ever seen, but the prison had gotten larger. Sanji brushed the debris off his arms.
"Sannnnjiiiii!"
Sanji recognised that name. He recognised that voice. It sounded like hope.
Setting his bare feet carefully one in front of the other like a colt just learning to stand, Sanji began to walk towards the sound of it.