Chapter 227: "She's... not dead."

“Hey, hey, look at me.

It’s okay, okay?

You're going to be okay.”

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“I want to go back.

Where’s my mum? Don’t touch me!”

I feel my eyes snap open to the sight of the silver-haired man moving backwards, hands in the air, mask still on.

He nods and his voice is raspy when he speaks, “See, I'm not touching you.

I won’t until you let me, because you have to let me. I need to find out what’s wrong with you first before I can fix it, and to do that, you need to let me touch you.

Is that okay, kid?”

Axios.

His presence cements itself in my mind immediately like a statue and my head snaps in his direction.

Fear grips me for a quick second because he’s not standing on anything. He’s floating in mid-air, yet when I look down I'm doing the same.

I look around and each way I face, it’s the same thing I see. A wide amount of space, bordered by a wall of dazzling pure white.

Up,

down,

Left,

right, it’s all the same.

“I want to go back…. I don't want to be here.”

The fear in Axios’s voice h