Becca followed Baatar and Grace to the surface, the stairway felt surprisingly shorter than the first time she stepped through it.
Once out, goosebumps took over her when her eyes scanned the vicinity.
There was nothing left but a complete wasteland, and ashes fell from the sky like dead tears.
Becca’s whole surroundings smelled like death, and the souls all around her screamed for a place to go, as if they couldn’t go to Hell, nor to Heaven, nor to wherever their creed was supposed to take them.
No...
The scream she was hearing wasn’t coming from the souls, she noticed.
It was coming from all around them, as if reality itself was shrieking.
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