Chapter 19: Death and Rebirth
Scarlett awoke.
She picked herself up while feeling a sense of brain fog. Looking around, there was only a void. A vast black emptiness, seemingly without end.
Scarlett: “Oh. Is this what the afterlife is like?” She said as her voice echoed in the vast emptiness.
It was hard for her to think, but she vaguely recalled the last few seconds before she lost consciousness. The memory of that time told her that she was dying, and the strangeness of what she was feeling now was telling her that she might already be dead.
The more she thought about it, the more she realized there were gaps forming in her memory, and she could tell those gaps were getting bigger by the second.
Scarlett: “Oh, I see. My memories will fade with my life. I guess that makes sense. That's how it goes, I guess,” she said calmly.
There was no fight left in her. She was all too willing to give into her current circumstance. Her memories would fade, but the bad memories would disappear with them too. Once those memories were gone, she would also be free of that guilt and pain that haunted her for a year and a half. She was ready to rest.
She gave her surrounding one last look before she prepared to close her eyes forever.
Scarlett: “Huh. No gate of light or burning hellscape like those religious zealots like to preach about. Good thing too. There was no way I was going to get past those holy gates,” she said as her voice echoed in the emptiness.