She had been afraid to die of course, who wasn't? But now that it was happening it wasn't fear that she felt. It was welcome, being drawn into a gentle embrace after a nightmare. It was warm, comforting. She knew her wretched life was over. She basked in the first peace she'd ever known. But there was something that pricked at her consciences, wrested peace from her grasp and handed her a cold darkness, that stretched on for seeming eternity which was abruptly filled with an all encompassing voice speaking three little words: Welcome Kannuki Wakaba
And it had begun….