I projected an image of Raya into his consciousness. My high school crush, the girl I'd never had the courage to ask out.
I showed Marcus the memory of her dying before my coma started. Showed him discovering later that her soul wasn't in the Liminal Realm where it should have been.
Then I showed him where she actually was.
The Shadow Depths materialized in Marcus's mind. That dimension of eternal torture where the dead screamed and suffered. I focused the vision, narrowing it down to show him one specific soul among the thousands.
Marcus's eyes opened and he jerked back hard against the car seat, breathing like he'd been drowning. Sweat covered his entire face and his hands were shaking worse than I'd ever seen them shake.
"That was real," he said, not asking. "All of it. The realms,
