Bab 123: Didn't I die?

"Didn't I die?"

I couldn't feel anything, but I could move.

I couldn't make a voice, but I could speak.

It was strange.

Extremely strange.

Deep red rocks surrounded me all around. Small streams of red-hot lava flowed through them.

It was a cave.

A strange cave, only lit up by the glowing hot streams of lava.

I wasn't supposed to be here. I was supposed to be nowhere, yet here I was.

Memories eluded me. My name, the place I was from, none of it remained.

I only knew two things.

One, that I should have been dead.

And two, that I had to go back to settle a score.

A strange rage, a driving annoyance, filled me up. Slowly, I stepped ahead. My body seemed light, almost ephemeral.

I walked around in the dark cave for a while.

The small while piled up on and on.

I was never running out of breath, never getting tired, never heavy.

That was why I was too late to notice.