Night fell, and Ethemon and the others found themselves adrift in a lone boat, floating aimlessly through the boundless darkness.
Looking up, the night sky seemed sealed shut beneath a vast, impenetrable blanket of black. Not a single star dared pierce that thick gloom, and even the faintest glimmer of light was nowhere to be found.
A heavy fog hung all around them, wrapping them tightly in layer upon layer of damp, cotton-like mist.
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