[!]   Blackness shriveled. The dark sillhouettes drew into a vision.  A vista of unknown realm spanned down  below – first falling down a slope ever steep,  and then bounding and sinking,  soaring and diving.   Unwavering twilight lay on the uncanny landscape.  Hither and thither, the undulate domain  was cracked and riven; meagre fissures and  great chasms scarred it, and thence spouted  unyielding streams of eerie mist.