Darkness.
That was the first thing Raven noticed after Zeri's final attack.
The pain that had torn through her body was gone, replaced by an unnatural silence. For several seconds, she couldn't understand what had happened. Then her gaze drifted downward, and she saw herself lying motionless upon the ruined ground, blood spreading beneath her broken body.
"...What?"
Raven stared at the corpse. She tried to move closer, but her feet never touched the ground. When she reached toward her body, her fingers passed straight through it as though neither flesh nor bone existed anymore.
A terrible realization settled upon her.
I'm dead.
Raven looked at her transparent hands.
"So it was true..." she whispered. "Our bodies really do have souls after all."
A tear slipped down her cheek. Strangely, she could still cry.
