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abyss
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The Infinite Sea
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Marika was a little girl clinging to rainbow fingers, helplessly watching the time wind down, teetering on the razor's edge of the bottomless abyss, exposed behind her fortress walls by promises she could never keep.†
p. 248.8

abyss = a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
The white world beneath me shines like pearls, a blank canvas, an alabaster abyss.†
p. 271.1 *
My mind empties: blank canvas, alabaster abyss.†
p. 271.3
The white king on his back, blank stare, the eyes an alabaster abyss looking back at me.†
p. 280.1
Below: the abyss.†
p. 283.1

Definitions:

(1) (abyss)
a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)