Chapter 44

“Correction.I know I’m right.”I said,my hands balling into fists at the way she reminded me of Lola.

It was then that she raised her hands,planting them square on my shoulders.She shoved me back so unexpectedly that I lost my footing and found myself reeling backwards.

The heel of my pump caught in a crevice between the boulders,and there was nothing I could do but accept my fate as I crashed towards the floor.

Sent straight backwards I felt my head connect painfully with the stone,and my vision went sickeningly black.

Sixteen

Am I dead?I thought the words distantly and found that I lacked a will to be frightened.

You are not dead,my daughter.The familiar voice of the Goddess rang in my mind,and a moment later,my vision was filled with bright,shimmering stars.

I glanced all around me but could see nothing but twinkling lights almost as if I was somehow suspended in the middle of a starry night sky.