Warning: This chapter may contain gory details.
“Further… further,” I heard a voice urge insistently, and my eyes flew open to see myself standing in a dark void of nothing.
There was nothing, no church, no water I was being drowned in, no Cassius, just darkness. Was this how death felt like?
“Jocelyn!” There was that voice again, one that sounded too familiar. I could, however, see a door of light now, not too far away, almost blinding. I had to squint.
We’re always told not to go towards ‘the light,’ but it was the only thing in this dark endless void right then. Plus, that insistent voice kept whispering harshly for me to walk toward it. What more harm could be done than had already been done if I went towards it anyway?
So I let my legs guide me to the light. At first, I was sur
