Chapter 84: Karly's perspective

Chapter 84: Karly's perspective

This fucking sucks. She thought to herself as she curled up in her bed, having just finished her lessons with a creature named Funa, the great dark spirit.

It had actually gone pretty well, and learning to use her magic had been a welcome distraction, but now here she was, alone with her thoughts again.

Who’s incredible idea was it to split us all up after the second day? How am I supposed to deal with all of this by myself?The initial instance of this chapter being available happened at N0v3l.Bin.

The queen and her husband had been genuinely kind, letting her make a home with them and providing some stability to her life, and her teacher was more than accommodating, but when the day was done and she was left to her own thoughts she couldn’t help spiral.

How was she supposed to help fight some world-threatening invaders? She had been planning her move for university only a couple weeks before, all prepared to finish high school and start her new life, enjoying a final trip with everyone she spent the last four years with, and now here she was. Dead.

A part of her would wonder if this was all a dream, while another questioned if it was hell. Sure it seemed kind enough for now, but maybe it was all leading up to whatever monsters would be coming to destroy everything, and taking her false sense of security with them when they did. No one seemed to know what the invaders did to anyone that didn’t escape their world, but given the savagery she’d heard from different accounts as she was being taught it was undoubtedly bad.

Even if all of this was real, wasn’t the thought of being brought back to life specifically to go off and die again just too cruel? What sort of gods thought this was a good idea, and where did they get off deciding this on their own without even asking any of them first?

A small part of her knew that even if they did ask she would have chosen to go, it was better than being dead after all, but being given the illusion of choice could have made all the difference to her.

“What? Who said that? Who’s there?” She pulled her head from her bed and looked around, trying to find the speaker.

Karly wouldn’t bite, opting to ignore the voice and sit in silence instead.

“You don’t score any points for being able to see the obvious.”

“How the hell am I supposed to do that?” She all but yelled. “I’m dead! And I’m stuck in this world just waiting to die again! How am I supposed to make things better?”

The voice grew softer after her outburst, kinder.

“I swear if you’re telling me to befriend Glob-”

“Oh my god are you really suggesting a playdate?”

“...I’ll think about it. At the very least I like the idea of traveling a bit to see some of the friends I already have.”

Karly did feel a bit better. Talking about her problems and working on a plan to try and make things better was nicer than spending the night sulking anyway.

“What? Spaghetti I guess. Why?”

With what felt like an ominous goodbye, the voice was gone.