章 148: Chapter 148: Back In The Hospital

I was supposed to be seeking the Ogdoad. So why then did I find myself in this inevitable place of quiet whispers and pending death? Back in the hospital, holding Adam's hand in the stillness of the empty ward where only the young man I loved lay dying? I'd checked on my way in, pausing at the station where the nurses talked, overheard caregivers and doctors discuss the impossible. Their surprise at the empty rooms, lack of patients to treat, their inability to understand why, of all the people they'd been treating and released as if by a miracle, healed and whole, only Adam remained.

All but the one who Chance chose to lead the mortal realm, fading away despite the massive power at his disposal. No, that used to be his, used to fill him with golden light and vigor and the will to do what it took to save Creation. Cut off by who I honestly believed was a misguided power who had no idea what she'd done removing both of us from the board.