And as she drew closer to the sound, the once beautiful melody was drowned in the sound of thousands of buzzing insects. Unable to turn back, she walked on. Rough hewn mountain stone was overtaken by strange, shining black pillars, and the dirt beneath her paws muddled by smooth red sand. Her body crept ever onward of it's own accord.
Minutes or hours of walking, she couldn't say. But Coal found herself standing in the center of a caldera- no, a cradle. Like antenna up to heaven, those unearthly pillars stood, so high that they seemed to block out all else. She couldn't see even a shred of the world she'd left behind, save for the dark, starless sky.
Not that she could look, anyway. Her gaze was drawn to one thing and one thing only.
The portal.
Looming out of the sands, the most impressive of all the structures stood. At once so otherworldly and yet organic, massive obelisks grew from the sand and up into the sky. Across the top stretched two more of those rectangular rocks, with the lower one much smaller and thinner. Harsh red, a red more intense than any she'd seen before, flooded out of the rectangular hole. It was as if she were staring into the sun itself, and yet she couldn't look away. That basin of light could have fit fifty wolves between it's two ends, and not one of them would've had to touch.
But in it stood only one.
With that all consuming red at Her back, the figure was consumed by shadow. Coal stood frozen before Her. Even if she'd had her wits about her to move, she couldn't have torn herself away.
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Hunter 
Hunter