Chapter 88

That couldn't be real.

I repeated and begged, even though I didn't have a person to do that to. There was no God to help me, and I wasn't even ever worthy enough to call him by his name. There were no friends endowed with infernal magic to do the dirty work for me. And it was as if everyone knew. I had the impression that, as I ran through that slightly darkened sand by the night that stretched, everyone in hell and in the heavens watched me. I knew that kind of thing was impossible. Hell shouldn't be able to have visions about the earth, but maybe my presence there changed everything. Perhaps my desperation in trying to save and protect those humans, meant that, in some distorted and profane way, the demons could contemplate them as stars in a distant sky.

And I wondered what would be the vision they would have at that moment. Did they see the waters retreating to the middle of the sea, the queen running in her human sneakers and slipping when the sand held her soles, or the t