“I don’t think I understand...”
I was lying, of course. I understood. I understood all too well, but still, I wanted her to explain exactly what she was saying, to explain exactly what she and everyone else had neglected to tell me for the past few days. Surely, it couldn’t be true, could it?
“When you go to the realm of the goddess, it does not happen as fast as you think it does. One minute, you’re busy falling through the clouds, and the next, you’re standing in front of her. But those minutes, aren’t minutes here. They’re hours.”
As if my frown wasn’t already a mile deep, it became even worse, for what she was describing, wasn’t what had happened to me at all. I couldn’t recall any clouds, let alone being able to see them in the sky when I had been there. Did everyone h
