Spires of Infinity Chapter 39

I've finished the first draft of Spires of Infinity Chapter 39, and it can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.

In this chapter our characters make it to the containment area where the Black Hole is held. I did a lot of research on the properties of black holes before I started writing this story, from what one would look like up close, to the time dilation in proximity to one, to gravitational lensing. I've also added some fictional, supernatural elements to it, to make it more of a malevolant entity rather than a naturally occurring force of nature.

Also, you'll notice this is not the first time that the Apostle has seen a black hole, though the surface of the event horizon was a different color. She doesn't know what it is, or anything about it other than it was what put her in her current bind and it frightens her. If you'll think back to when Allie was first explaining how the Spires of Infinity create Gates to other worlds and times she says that black holes are like doorways to a place that exists outside of space and time. You step out of the universe, and then back in at your desired point in space and time. The Black Hole on the World Closest to Perdition is sort of like a gateway through which the Council communicates with Cain in his prison, which is called Perdition. It's basically a hole in reality to a place that exists outside of what we view as normal time and space. The event horizons, or surface of the sphere of these two black holes are different colors, and there is a reason for that. One is a doorway to a place that is so far from the center of the universe that any light has yet to reach it. A place so far from anything that even the radiance of God can't light it up. Or Outer Darkness as we Mormons like to call it. It's basically hell, a place so far removed from everything that it's completely cut off from the presense o God, the ultimate punishement. The other leads to somewhere else, which will come up in the story later so I won't ruin it by posting what's going to happen here. Let's just say that the surface is silver instead of black because there's a lot more light on the other end.

The first draft of this story is now at 141,076 words out of an estimated 160,000. I've raised the estimation for the word count yet again, because there's still about six to eight chapters left, and an epilogue. That's just not going to get done in 9k words.