LILIANA
Shrouding darkness is all I can make out in this place.
Arms close around me in what feels like an embrace. Wait, what is this? This can’t be heaven. Where’s the choir of angels singing? Oh, s**t.
A loud ringing in my ears causes me to wince. Then piece by distorted piece everything starts to come together. The faint echo of my name, the fragmented parts of an argument and…a scuffle?
“Open your eyes, dammit!” That sounds like Rachel.
That’s when I find myself approaching bright light which envelopes me completely. I snap back to consciousness, gasping awake and a dry cough hacking at the base of my throat.
I raise my hands, touch my head and raise it to my view again–no blood. Patting down my body, it’s the same thing.
“I-I’m alive?” I murmur, half in confusion and half i
