Kaia felt as though she were floating in an abyss, weightless. The pain that had wracked her body was gone, replaced by a sense of eerie calm. "Is this the afterlife? Am I really dead?" she wondered, her thoughts echoing in the vast emptiness.
After what felt like an eternity, she found herself standing atop a towering mountain, the landscape below covered in a dense mist. She looked around in confusion, her senses on high alert. Suddenly, she jumped in surprise when she saw two frightening shifters.
One was a half-dragon, half-human being, his body covered in royal white scales that shimmered with an iridescent glow. His spine was adorned with gems of various colors, sparkling like stars in the daylight. The second figure was a tall, slender man with fiery red hair cascading down his b
