It's been a while since you decided to simply sit and enjoy the numb members of your body. Your arm aches every time you think about doing something with it. Since your battle with Annie, you feel sore and your injuries haven't totally healed yet.
And, to make things better, you're totally lost.
Again.
After sometime wandering, you decided to rely on your senses with exception of your vision, since it all looks the same. After a couple of days, you finally see mountains. Lots of it.
Since you don't feel like climbing anything on the near future, you try to walk around it. On your walk, you remember how the Dark Child was when you left: several broken bones, bruised and a bloody mess around her chest and shoulder. Well, at least her legs aren't broken, so she can go back home. Or that oversized teddy bear of her can do the job. You are not sure if you really want her to survive.
Eventually, you make out of the stone forest only to face the scalding desert again. Great, back to this cursed place…
But something is off. You can't tell exactly what, however you can feel it. As soon you go deep on this land, wind whispers your fears, howl strangled screams, claim your nightmares to rise and join you on the world of the living. The atmosphere is oppressive and you can't feel like resting is an option. So, you walk till exhaustion and keep going on, regardless of how bad you feel. Night falls and it manages to get even worst, and you wonder how it is possible. But at least, you are sure you aren't in Shurima desert because there's nothing like this, not that you know.
After several days walking (and lost again), you start to have visions. Disturbing visions and all that they have in common is your brother death. First, he is killed by a rock slide when the Institute falls. Second, somebody you can't see kills him and it keeps going, until you see yourself being knocked out by him while he bleeds out. And the last is you and him killing each other in the afterlife. You awaken, startled, and realize that you ended falling asleep while you were walking. The full moon shines and it doesn't make sense. It's like the stars are making an effort to prank you. Afar, you see a building, but it's nothing like what you have ever seen.
As soon you are able to see properly, you scream. You panic. You feel terrorized beyond your wildest dreams and it's clear where the fuck you are: Icatia. The entrance for the Void creatures to your world, the gate to something worse than death. Turning your back to that hell hole, you run as fast as you can away from that place, paying no mind to where are you going, as long it's away from there.
You nearly cry of emotion when you reach those mountains again and happily climb them, laughing like a madman.
You made it! Out of that frightening place, free to live without being forever haunted by the Void. You don't know if you are able to repeat Kassadin's feat. It's better to keep wondering.
As you reach the summit, the sun rises and you can't help but enjoy the view. Thinking about what you went through, you think that you must have lost all your sanity long ago. No way could somebody see Icatia and escape unscathed. Maybe it was just a hallucination caused by the exhaustion and restless nights. Or you are already so broken that it doesn't make difference.
You hope.
And fall asleep, basking in the warm light, wishing that it will wash away your worries and fears. And you dream again, but you can't yell at all those shadows that threaten to consume you.