Queen
I blink.
Nothing.
I blink again.
Still nothing. Are my eyes even open? Looking around, everything is just black. No shades, no tones. No gradients. Just black.
There are no lights to beckon me, no family to welcome me. Just a deep, never-ending darkness.
I’ve changed my mind.
Oblivion isn’t sweet. It’s unnerving.
Wow. All the cultures that have gone before? They were all wrong.
There are no jackal-headed gods waiting in a desert; no feasts in mighty halls; no Elysian fields or impatient ferrymen.