FIRE My head was throbbing the next time I woke up. To be honest, a big part of me had been hoping that this had all been a nightmare. I had even considered the possibility of it being my afterlife and that I was meant to learn something from it to finally reach my peaceful heaven. But even I knew that wasn't the case. From my short time in the Underworld, my father, and Noah, had explained enough about how the afterlife worked that I knew no soul was punished in their afterlife unless they went through the River Cocytus and I was sure I hadn't passed through any river. They had told me that once your soul passed on, the first thing they'd see was a river and the souls would then either be met by Charon, the keeper of the boat that took you to the other side, or by silence and if Charon