"Where's the water in it? Why did it dry up?"
"I don't know. It was already like that the first time I saw it."
"When was that?"
The Messenger Bird thought for a moment, then shook her head. "I can't remember."
Holy crap.
If this really was the River of Eternal Darkness, something had gone seriously wrong!
Did this mean the Evernight Goddess's plans to merge with the Artificial God of Death and scheme the God of Combat to death would all end in failure-with no Sefirah, she was destined to never advance to a Great Old One!
Did she know about this, then? Did I need to tell her?
If she learned that her thousands of years of planning would end like this, wouldn't she go mad?
No, no. A devious old schemer like the Goddess wouldn't be knocked down by something like this. Besides, the River of Eternal Darkness hadn't completely dried up yet. At least there was still a little at the bottom.
"Calm down, settle down. Take care of my own business first."
A few minutes later.
The Spirit World coordinates were set. The instant he finished, Edward could clearly sense their existence in his mind, just as he could clearly sense the coordinates of the Astral World and Harry Potter World.
But sensing their existence was all he could do. He could do nothing else.
Edward hesitated before asking, "Could you take me closer to that river for a look?"
"No! It's dangerous there."
The Messenger Bird shook her head. "Even going there myself is dangerous. It would be even more dangerous for you."
True. That was a Sefirah, after all.
*Hadn't Medici apparently become corrupted just by coming into contact with the City of Calamity? The Goddess wanted the River of Eternal Darkness so