"No. Zarah is not. I am the only one in this clan who is...was human."
I exhaled heavily, my hand rising to gesture in a sweep that felt almost theatrical, though the weight in my chest was anything but.
"How did this happen? Not once… not once did I ever imagine something like this," I muttered, the words more for myself than for her, spoken into the silence as if I might make sense of them if I heard them aloud.
But Flogga didn't speak.
She simply stood there, steady as stone, letting my confusion hang in the air.
I turned fully to face her, eyes narrowing, voice lower now, deliberate.
"Did you also die… and then find yourself in this world?"
"Yes," she said simply, without hesitation. Then, with a strange steadiness that almost unnerved me, she added, "I got hit by a truck on my way back from work."
Just like me.
But wait...what did she say...
"Work?" I asked, the word catching in my throat.
My voice softened, edged with disbelief as I pressed further:
