Chapter 14: Conversations with Dead People

Vivian

I felt like I was floating in a sea of fog. My body felt weightless, eyes closed. I felt warm, loved, and happy. There were no pressures on me anymore. I was free.

Wait, was I dead?

My eyes snapped open and I crashed back into my body. The sun shined over me, warm and golden. My skin prickled pleasantly with the tickle of blades of grass.

How did I get out of that basement? I remembered Finn showing up, or was that just some delusion my mind cooked up while I was bleeding out in some bunker?

The fresh air hit my lungs and I felt light, free, and happy for the first time since the Solstice Ball. I had to be dead. That was the only explanation. So, where was I?

I looked around and saw that I was in a grassy field with little yellow wildflowers. There were several headstones in the grass, some with fresh flowers, some old and cracked. I recognized some of the names on the tombstones. This was the Riker family graveyard.

Well, that leaned to my theory of being dead.