"Mai, it's you!"
She smiled brightly. "Muro! I didn't know you were here." Mai looked her brother over. "You look better."
"Yeah, I think I feel better, too."
Mai looked around. "We're not awake, are we."
This was more of a statement than a question, but Muro answered it anyway. "No, I don't think we are."
Each was staying close to the other, since neither of them wanted to risk getting lost in the black nothingness that surrounded them. As soon as they started walking, though, the black nothingness started to change. The twins glanced down, and saw that they were now walking on discernable ground.
Muro scuffed his foot against it, from the way it moved he thought it was grass. Looking ahead, the twins saw the sky starting to lighten ahead of them. The entire area was changing as they walked through it, in fact, becoming more and more⦠well, normal. In fact, there was now no trace of the empty, cold place that Muro had first found himself in.
It was kind of pretty now, like a park that he could remember Mai and himself spending time in before he'd gotten too sick to do anything but stay in bed.
