It was nothing. No sight, no sound, no anything. Saying that it was complete darkness didn't even fit. Whatever this was, Thayer was surrounded by it. He couldn't think, speak, or determine what it was, but it was truly a moment of solitary.

Then feeling came back into his body, as the darkness was slowly being filled in by a feint light getting brighter and brighter. His senses coming back to him, realizing what he was feeling in his paws.

It was sand.

His body slowly waking up like a newborn, but Thayer was far from that, and little did he know, that he was in a new land, one that he had never seen nor heard of before. Unbeknownst to him at that moment, he was blessed by being underneath the shade of one of the few trees in the desert. An oasis in the cruel heat, one that attracted others from everywhere.