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Chapter 6: Purgatory and Heaven

I felt a soft touch against my forehead, Yomiko's touch, and then a soothing voice in my ear, though its details I knew not. I tried to open my eyes, and to move my body, but I couldn't even move an inch. I didn't understand, was I in a coma, or beaten into a vegetative state. Nonsense.

I have to live I thought as I felt her hand touch other places, damaged places that pulsed with pain each time it was touched. She was checking if my bones were broken perhaps? I'm not sure. I heard a soft groan escape my throat and immediately I heard her voice in a worried tone, though I still couldn't understand what she said. I felt her hand fall into my own, and I felt my grip tighten around hers'. Yes, this was probably a coma.

I sobbed, or at least I did on the inside. I wanted to call out to her, say Yomiko, I'm here, I'm all right. But I knew that wasn't true. I constantly felt her grip getting softer and softer, until I thought it was lost, and then there it was again. I felt a tear bleed through my eyelids.

Yomiko I tried to force to my lips, but heard nothing. Yomiko I continued to call out to her, but again I heard nothing. Occasionally there would be a mumble at the edge of my lips, but it quickly became nothing more than a weak groan. Prison.

I was trapped in my body. I could feel everything, my sores as they were pushed against and the soft touch of Yomiko's hand, but I couldn't force my body to do anything. I tried to force my body up and out of the bed, or wherever it lay, but nothing more than a slight movement came out in response. Hell.

Time passed by so painfully slow, sometimes Yomiko's grip would leave me and I thought that I was dead, but after a few moments of eternity passed her voice was there again, and her touch in my grasp. What a horrible state of consciousness. I tried to force myself to make any mental movement, but no luck. Purgatory.

Eventually my inner self gave up and I just floated, my mind adrift without a thought or idea. This must be Purgatory, I thought, I must be dead.

I began to cry. At first just a soft sob and then it became an uncontrollable stream. I felt the tears falling at the sides of my face, and then I felt Yomiko's soft touch as she whispered something into my ear, but this time I felt something different. I felt my hand wrapped around her wrist as she wiped at my tear, and I heard what she said to me, she said that it was all right and everything would be fine. I heard myself respond, asking if she was sure, and I felt her hand touch my cheek. I felt her arms wrap around me, and mine around her, I felt something wet against my cheek, her soft kiss, and I felt her hair cover my face. I felt that I could open my eyes, but I didn't want to, because I felt something completely foreign to me. Nothing of the skin, not a pain or a push, no, I felt something within.

I felt…joy.