"That's right!" the voice within his head screamed. "Nothing!"
But stars, Anders thought. How can one believe—
The stars disappeared. Anders was in a gray nothingness, a void. There was nothing around him except shapeless gray.
Where was the voice?
Gone.
Anders perceived the delusion behind the grayness, and then there was nothing at all.
Complete nothingness, and himself within it.
Where was he? What did it mean? Anders' mind tried to add it up.
Impossible. That couldn't be true.