Chapter 38

Katie's POV

A red wolf walked through the midst of clouds around me and I saw her.

“Lucy?!”

My voice echoed so loud in my own head that it hurt every corner of it. Even while I knew I lay awake in the real world, I could still feel the side of my cranium ticking from the worrying amount of blood that drove north to my brain.

Truly, it was her. The similarity in the divinity of her presence remained constant. I unconsciously found myself bending to a knee.

“What are you doing?” Lucy asked, her voice displaying elements of a puzzled being.

I looked up at my wolf, her large red fur head was cocked to the side. Even in the unidentified world, she still somehow looked just like I remembered her the last time. “Am I dead?”

I took the initiative to ask. I wanted to ask all this time instead of figuring it out on my own. Death had been explained in so many ways in the past and I feared this may have been one of them.

“No Katie, you are not dead. This is your mind, where I stay.”

I glanced a