Chapter 2: Deal With a Failed god
’What is this feeling?’
’I can still think? I’m supposed to be dead. That bullet tore straight out the back of my head. Maybe I’m in the ICU or something... but if I were really dead, I shouldn’t be able to think at all.’
’But for Zara to rat us out just because I cheated? I see why the boss didn’t want a woman on the team, fuck...’ Liam’s thoughts churned like a storm.
Suddenly, his eyes flew open. A blinding light hit them immediately.
’Is this... heaven?’ he wondered as he turned his head instinctively.
’Left, right... left again—wait. My neck moves?’
He looked up at the sky, and what he saw was unlike anything he had ever seen. There was no sun. Instead, the sky shimmered with radiant waves of color, an aurora that danced like silk across the sky. The light wasn’t warm or cold. It just... was.
His gaze dropped to his arms, they were translucent, glowing faintly, like some ethereal phantom.
’I must be in heaven... or maybe awaiting judgment for everything I’ve done. But this isn’t how either was ever described.’
Liam slowly stood, glancing around. Then his eyes locked onto something in the distance, a towering structure not too far off.
’That looks like a temple. What the hell is going on?’ he wondered, but his legs moved instinctively, drawing him toward it.