Chapter 156: Retained Memories
Rory
Child of the sea?
"What?" I blurted out, unable to believe my ears. The woman offered me a smile and reached out to take my hand. I flinched at the contact because her hand felt cold and slimey.
"You’re from the sea and which is why you’re back here, to where you belong." She explained and my eyes widened as I felt my heart drop into my stomach.
"Oh," I whispered, a wave of disappointment slowly engulfing me.
"Yes. Now you can spend the rest of enternity here being happy forever, along with your brothers and sisters." She continued and I blinked at her in confusion.
"Huh? Enternity?" I blurted out and she hummed while nodding. "We all live forever here. There’s nothing like death here,"
"Oh." I whispered, feeling lost and unsure of what to make of her explanation.
"So I’ll just have to live on this floating board with you forever?" I echoed out and this time, she laughed while shaking her head.
"No, silly! There are a whole others like yourself, and we don’t live above water, we live under water." She explained and a gawked at her, at a complete loss of what to make of all this.
"Don’t worry, I’ll show you." She informed me then she was sliding right into the water before I could blink. I gasped in shock, hurrying to the edge of the board to stare into the rippleless water where her face emerged from in the very next moment, making me stumble a little.