Chapter 270. The Spirit Realm

I lay there, feeling stripped of every wall I’d ever built, every defense I’d ever clung to. The weight of it all pressed down on me like a tidal wave, but somewhere in the depths of my agony, I felt something else—a faint stirring, like the first flicker of light after an endless night. 

“Good,” Aria;’s voice broke through the fog in my mind, gentle yet firm. “You’re not running anymore.” 

“I feel…empty,” I croaked, my throat raw from crying. “I feel broken.” I could not even move. It was not like I did not have the ability to do that, I just did not have enough strength. 

You see, this was why I did that. This was why I preferred to build up these walls and defenses. They help me stay sane, they help me to be able to be a normal human being. 

“You’re not broken, you’re alive,” She said softly. Her voice was strangely comforting. “As long as you have breath in your lungs, you have to experience some kind of pain and suffering. That’s humanity. T