Chapter 137

Gilly’s POV The world around me was nothing but darkness, an endless expanse of shadows that stretched in every direction. Time didn’t exist here, nor did sound or sensation. I floated in the emptiness, a weightless figure adrift in an ocean of nothingness. I didn’t know how I’d gotten here, but I knew one thing: I was trapped. At first, I thought this was death—a bleak and silent afterlife where my thoughts were my only companions. But I still felt the faintest pull of something beyond this void. It was like a tether, thin and fragile, connecting me to something—or someone. “Serena.“ Her name flickered in my mind, a faint light in the darkness. Memories of her surged forward unbidden: her fierce determination, her unyielding loyalty, the way she had fought for all of us, even when the odds were stacked against her. I tried to call out to her, but my voice didn’t carry. The void swallowed every word before it could form. The shadows shifted. Slowly at first, then faster, swirling aroun