Maybe not

Cassy could not comprehend it. Any of it. She stared at Lino as she tried to understand what he'd said.

He would lock her in. He would...he would lock her up, just to prove a point.

She blinked back the burning sensation in her eyes and tried to fight against the constriction in her chest. She tried to breathe in, reel her anger back in, but she failed.

Her breaths came out as harsh pants as she fought the surging memories of being stuck, alone, in an unending darkness.

The darkness that was death.

She didn't like to speak of those moments, or even think on them. Many would pay or kill to know what was after death. If indeed, they became one with the goddess after death.

But Cassy had experienced only darkness. It had no beginning or no end. No depths or widths. It just was, and nothing else existed within it.

Not her grief, not her pain, not her anger.

It was a stifling void and it had suffocated her so much that she had wondered if she might die again in the