It was quite the intriguing feeling.
Mana that disconnected from the body, such as when a fire-spell is used, or even just a ball of light, or a magic missile, is always, even if indirectly, connected to the subconsciousness of the caster, resulting in a tiny hint of what happens and a constant usage of concentration and mental strength, another reason for why it is harder to cast magic when you are exhausted, not concentrating, or just out of it like Cades right now, be it that he didn't really seem to mind too much, at least this Cades at least.
However, this mana that he was sending out was meant to bring back information, and it did, be it with quite the weird intrigues that now came to his mind, quite literally, as the wave of mana spread throughout the endless expanse of this domain, or, to be more precise, about a thousand foot out, delivering horribly vague and sometimes even senseless pictures of that which was far away to him, the further the picture and object the worse, so much so that he was fairly certain that the first few of the closest towers had railings, and as such was certain that the others had railings as well, but later on he began to realize that the towers seemed to spread out under the railings, into something else, something that changed with each piece of information that came back to the temporarily blind Cades.
And that, currently, blind Cades felt anxious, not because he sensed danger, which he had done without end after ending up in this place, but because he was not able to see if there was any danger, something that hadn't really bothered him during his endless fall, when it first began, but was now bothering him after he had gotten used to 'seeing' without his eyes, if one may call it that, something he was definitely quite indecisive about.
But what was the most intriguing was that he was still sending out mana around his body itself, but not gathering any more information from the nearby sources, something that was unnerving him far more than the prospect of the towers themselves moving whenever he was "looking" at them, be it that he wasn't looking at them and more so sensing them, still though, he was waiting for all the mana to stop spreading out, almost having built himself a complete picture of this place.
It was blurry, even after it had stopped spreading and returned to him, be it that the mana could not be reabsorbed and simply dissolved, having gathered the information, a phenomenon that Cades could not quite understand at first but quickly began to realize had come to happen because he had moved from his original place, causing the rebounding wave to concentrate on a place right besides him and only give the information because he was connected to the subconsciousness, something he would like to experiment further with down the line.
Something, he now realized, was happening, and as soon as he did, he stopped searching the surroundings, he stopped expanding everything, he readied himself, eyes closed tightly, ready, listening, trying to discern anything and still sending out his mana sense, be it only in a radius of about twelve foot, as much as he could see right now, be it the case that that was still quite a lot with him being able to sense an entire area and not being limited by his direct vision anymore, even being able to constantly feel into the sky, very little, but that still resulted in Cades being very grateful right now that he had figured this trick out while falling.
It was terrible to him, who had always been able to see, or at least been able to understand his current condition to a certain degree, that degree being entailing not being ripped apart by a giant moving tower that might eat him in a single gulp and turn him into a teacup from what he knew, which was practically nothing.
All he had felt in his attempt to make sense of this place in which he was as blind as can be, at least visually, was that there were many more towers in the distance, railings like the one he was standing on from what he knew, covering the bottoms of all of them with there being something spreading out from under there, quickly, and with powerful raggedy movements, something that Cades already knew the identity of but simply didn't wish to know, and something that Cades now realized had been leaving him completely unaware.
Even the tower he had been standing on was changing, the railing he had been sensing was growing higher and smaller, following a constant rise in the nothingness that he had only been able to interpret from the other towers hovering in the light, the distance to the tower from the railing's edge growing wider, something he only realized as he took a few steps forward towards the endlessly tall structure and found out that there was nothing there to feel, despite having sensed it to be there shortly before, and even now feeling that it should be there, no, correction, he no longer felt that, instead he felt that it was one more step in front, his mana sense not having been able to pick up on the changes for some reason, a unknown reason that made Cades heart become heavier than before, much heavier.
He took another step forward, trying to feel the tower that was, as he realized even with his eyes shup as tightly as he could do, was continuously sending out light that was burning his retinas even behind the thin walls of his eyelids and causing him to try and look the other way.
However, even worse than that, was that which he found out as he finally touched the infinitely big tower, realizing something he would've never expected, well, at least something he had wished to never expect, in truth he had already half known, having pieced it together from everything that had happened in this place until now, including that morbid butterfly, he had just not expected exactly this.
What he was feeling was incredibly familiar to him, perhaps even as familiar as his very own skin, a phenomena that came to be out of one very clear reason.
The wall felt as if it was ehetrian skin, soft, war, pulsating slightly from the beating of a massive heart within the huge thing, and alive.
Cades once more felt pure dread.