Pain should have greeted me. Bone-shattering, blood-splattering pain.
But instead… silence.
I opened my eyes.
No broken body.
No city street.
No flashing lights.
I was lying on something soft—fog, maybe, or nothing at all. A vast gray emptiness stretched in every direction. My heart hammered in confusion. Had I survived? Was this heaven?
Then I heard it.
A voice. Low, mocking, everywhere and nowhere.
"No."
The word echoed, and every hair on my body rose.