[You don't know the half of it...]

There was nature around Trench, too. It was mostly dead and treacherous. This seems far more preferable.

[Echo had never really taken in landscapes and nature before. By the time she could have, she was in Trench which really didn't have any.

Thinking back to where she'd just been reminds her of the experience she had before her seemingly endless plummet. Before they'd had the Pthumerians, but that felt distinctly different.]

Are there...entities who have power over this place?