'Is this what it feels like to die?'
Not the kind he knew. Not the sudden kind where the world goes black and you wake up somewhere else.
'Rei.'
Hoping—that this time too, he'd open his eyes at the bottom of that same well. Rei's voice in his head. Annoyed. Alive. Telling him to get up.
But nothing.
'Rei, please.'
Nothing again.
'I'm scared.'
He cried out. But nothing came back. Not even an echo. The sound was ripped from existence the moment it left him—swallowed by a void that didn't just silence things but erased them.
But this was different.
He couldn't feel his body. Couldn't feel anything. No pain. No warmth. No weight. Just his thoughts—loose, untethered, drifting through a place where nothing existed.
He was everywhere.
Yet nowhere.
He was nothing.
'Someone please help me.'
He was scared. No—terrified.
He'd never thought dying would feel like this.
