Even after Her Death by Rita Bond

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Chapter 82 Give Me Rebirth

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I never thought someone like me-trapped between life and death, not quite ghost or human-could ser foot in a place so sacred,

I even imagined something dramatic, like getting blastel back by a beam of holy light, just like on TV.

But real life isn't like that.

Barefoot, I stepped onto the stairs.

Snow covered each step, soft and silent under my feet. The hem of my dress shifted with the wind, but the cold never reached me.

Nothing stopped me as I climbed higher. At the top, I knelt, just like Luke had done before me.

I don't know if gods are real. I don't know if they can hear the stubborn hopes and wishes of people like us.

The first two times I prayed, it was for someone else. This time, it was for me.

I lifted my dress slightly and bowed three times, lowering myself fully to the ground with each movement.

By midnight, frost had settled thick on Luke's face.

His hair and lashes were frozen, stiff, and white.

The driver pleaded with him over and over to leave. He warned Luke that if he stayed any longer, he might not survive-or, at best, he'd lose half his strength.

Luke didn't pay attention to the driver's words. He bowed his head and said quietly. "So it really is this cold. How did she manage to get through it?".

The truth is simple. No one can fully understand another person's pain unless they've lived through the same struggles, carried the same weight, and faced the same hardships. But people have different lives and experiences. How many could say they'd done that?

That's why those who speak from a safe distance, urging others to make peace with their suffering, were either foolish or cruel.

Only by feeling someone else's pain could you understand what empathy truly means.

Luke used to dismiss the amulet, thinking it was meaningless. Now, each time he knelt, he realized just how much that thin piece of paper held.

It carried everything inside him-his longing, his regret, and his wildest hopes.

"O wife of mine, stay safe

"O wife of mine, find peace."

O wife of mine, come back to me."

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Luke managed to conquer the mountain's

on the last step and hit the ground

streetlight outside Mount Spiritus Abbey cast a faint glow, and snowflakes

him.

his eyes heavy, until

back! I knew you'd come

he pushed himself up with what little strength

nothing more than a flicker of

body passed straight through mine and fell back into the snow, scattering it in all

reached

I wasn't there, I didn't look back. I stepped past him and walked. toward

as he ran over. He

driver's hand. It was cold, but it was solid. It was real, unlike

face lit up as he pointed at my fading silhouette. Did you see her? It's Chloe! I told you she was fine! She's back! She

of his mind. His desperation for his wife, mixed with the cold and hunger, had blurred the line between reality and

weak but determined. "I have

was failing him. Even standing

me up! Hurry, or she'll

the driver said, his voice trembling He was frightened by Luke's condition

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walking away

The world called him Grandmaster

protective amulets twice before. The arst time, it was for my grandmother. That was in the fall, when the

mountain, my body too

to me with at serious expression and said I must keep it close. Only then, he said,

to send it to my grandmother before

that it might buy her a few

wonder if the master had known all along. Maybe he saw the truth-that I

had been set. Perhaps there

his voice low as he chanted in a language I couldn't

in front of the

deity loomed above me, its

than the last. The first

time I'd pray for myself would feel

called out to the gods, hoping they could hear me. Please,

never done anything to harm the world. The baby inside me and