Chapter 174

• As the final hum of the life-saving machine Olivia was connected to faded into silence, she was suddenly transported into an ethereal landscape—one unlike anything she had ever seen.
• The colors here pulsed with life, the air itself shimmering in hues of deep blues and radiant purples. The sky was not like any sky she had known; it stretched endlessly, filled with wisps of light that danced across the ground like guiding spirits. The air smelled of something familiar, yet unplaceable—a mixture of earth after the rain and something ancient, something almost magical.
• "Welcome, Olivia," came a voice—calm, familiar, yet entirely unexpected.