Soraya's POV
Everything was blurry.
Weakness weighed me down, every limb trembling as if I'd been drained of life itself. For a fleeting, horrifying moment, I wondered if this was it — the afterlife. Maybe I'm in heaven.
Light filtered in, pale and soft, through the haze, and gradually, the shapes around me became clearer. My heart stumbled.
Wait…
I blinked hard.
The ceiling. The walls. The faint scent of cedar.
This… this looks like my gilded cage.
Silverfang.
I actually laughed — a dry, incredulous sound. "Of course," I muttered to myself. "So… afterlife looks like my old room. Really? That's your imagination of eternity?"
Then I sat up on the bed, the weak muscles protesting. My eyes roamed the familiar space, and my disbelief only deepened. The door — its hinges crooked, the knob broken.
…Wait. How could heaven have a broken door?
And then it hit me. Those men. The ones who tried to kill me earlier. They had broken it.
