-Octavia-
I had never imagined the underworld would be so... bright? I always pictured it as a place of darkness, lit only by eternal flames, filled with the sound of tortured souls screaming. But this—this was just bright.
Strange, I thought, because I knew there was no chance I was heading to the Goddess’s hidden realm where good souls went to rest. No, I had a one-way ticket straight to the underworld. So why was it so bright? Where were the flames? The screams? The tortured souls? All I could hear was... growling?
Was that how tortured souls sounded? Like growling? And then it hit me, like an iron fist to the chest. My entire body jolted as I gasped for air, my lungs greedily sucking in as much oxygen as they could.
My eyes flew open in panic, greeted by strange, blinding lights
