Astral World

I couldn't feel my hands. In fact, I couldn't feel my legs, my chest, or even the air against my skin.

There was no up, no down, and no physical sensation whatsoever. Yet somehow, I was still completely aware. It was as if my consciousness had been detached from my body and thrown into an infinite, weightless ocean. But instead of water, this ocean was made of raw, shifting logic, abstract ideas, fundamental truths, and strange conceptual structures that defied normal human explanation.

'What... is this place?' I thought, my mind struggling to make sense of the boundless void surrounding me.

[Don't stare at it too long, Seth,] Paige's voice sounded directly inside my consciousness, unusually gentle. [Trying to process the raw architecture of existence with human mind will give you a headache that not even I can cure. Though, if you really want to comprehend it, I can just upgrade your mind right now.]