And warmer.
It comforted me.
The pain left.
The panic receded.
I said goodbye to life.
Death slid over me with the sweetest kiss.
I smiled and sighed and gave into the deep.
Chapter Nineteen
Jethro
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SHE WAS DEAD.
I knew it.
I couldn’t explain how I knew.
But I did.
I’d done it.
I’d killed her.
She’d left me.
Chapter Twenty
Nila
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IT WAS OVER.
I existed in a fog of warm, comforting blackness. I didn’t have a conscience or stress or worries.
I wascontent.
This nether world had no stipulations or rules on how to be. I just was. With no thoughts corrupting me.
I liked it here.
I preferred it here.
I sank deeper and deeper into the billowing softness.
I belong here.
Then something tugged on my mind.
I swatted it away, curling into a ball, becoming invisible.
