The threshold was a toll bridge on the edge of the city. He crossed it at midnight. The sky wasn't a beautiful midnight blue; it was a bruised black, heavy with the weight of unrendered storms.
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The prompt hovered in the air between them, glowing a pale, sterile white: [PROCEED WITH ASCENSION? Y/N].