“The barrier broke. Ekansh fell forward into nothing — the forest disappearing, the Hunters' frequency net vanishing, the surface world's light and sound and smell replaced by the absolute sensory void of inter-dimensional transit. The void lasted three seconds that felt like three hours. And then light returned — not the forest's dappled sunlight but the blue-gold luminescence of the Madhyabhumi's crystal formations, the underground dimension's visual signature as different from the surface world as the ocean floor was from the sky.”