Mirage
“She’s awake” I hear someone whisper. It was close since I could feel that someone’s breath on my skin. Somewhere around my body that I can’t pinpoint yet because my body doesn’t feel right at all.
It feels fractured.
Slowly, I open my eyes and I recognize the gray cave walls. It could only mean one thing and it’s the chasm of Charon. We’re going to be ferried up to the other side but the only difference between the myth and the truth is that it doesn’t lead to Hades. There was no Hades but only Lucy and once, his father.
It only leads you to the underworld. Everyone was welcome to offer anything to Charon, not only a coin, but it can be anything. Your good heart, your bad one or your laughter or your voice. It could be something you treasured when you were alive and carried it
