IN A FEW SECONDS

My mind hung between joy and sorrow over this victory.

I had come to the end of Level 2, with victory, and it would all be complete the moment I looted this tomb and stripped it of its treasures. I had fought against all odds, travelled 310 km through the desert, moved with Sand Demons as travelling companions, defeated an Invincible Soldier, and been kissed by a goddess.

That last part was where my sorrow lay.

In the time when I was snatched up from the tomb and taken to that garden where there was only joy, I found no reason to feel anything that would hurt me. My body had gone back to being human and able to feel the breeze that swept the earth, and my face needed no mask to hide the burns that turned half of it into a twisted, scarred mass. I could run and feel like me, and live.

Until now, where I found myself snatched back to my new reality, the man Hades’s tricks forced me to be.

The human, animate hands that had made the bow and arrow were gone, like in a dream, as what held
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