Chapter 26: What is Your Gift?
Outside the office, Jason and Liam stood in the corridor with coffees from the nearby vending machine in their hands. They made an odd pair, with Liam wearing a full suit and Jason dressed casually in cargo pants and a t-shirt. But there was nobody in the hospital who would dare to cross that corridor at that moment. Just the presence of the two men was enough to make you shiver in fear.
Guards were standing at the end of the hall to block anyone from getting closer, and Liam decided to hurry the conversation up so they wouldn't stop the doctors from performing their duties.
Liam took a drink before speaking up.
"So, you were dragged into the Gate along with three others."
Jason nodded, and Liam continued.
"And what happened to these three?"
"They didn't make it. The monsters got to them before I awakened."
"I see. That is quite unfortunate."
Liam took another drink and Jason finished half his coffee. Liam was good at reading the expressions of others, and from what he could see, Jason was irritated at his inability to help the others and, at the same time, he didn't feel responsible for their deaths. Almost like it had been their own fault that they died.
Liam decided to disregard the three who died. There were so many deaths inside of Gates these days that it didn't even register to Liam or anyone else in the world, for that matter. The people who died after being pulled into Gates were just unlucky, that was the simple truth.
Liam finally decided to broach the actual reason why he came here. Even though everyone in the world was hailing Jason for his power, there was one question that they all still wanted answered: