Darkness.
Ares stumbled down onto his knees, hitting the ground hard and sending a sickening pain lancing up and down both legs. He couldn’t see - couldn’t see anything. He blinked hard once, then twice, and peered into the abyss all around him in a vain attempt to make out even the slightest of clues that would tell him where he was.
Nothing. He felt a wave of nauseating dizziness flood his head, and he took a moment to steady himself and wait for the feeling to return to his numb, freezing limbs.
Where was he? And how had he gotten here? He remembered nothing except vague pieces of memories, tiny slivers that glimmered like dust motes caught on a spider web. Water? Water. He remembered water. The sound of the waves lapping the shore, the rush of the seaside wind brushing against his s
