KEILAH

There was no ground beneath me.

No sky above.

Only weightless, endless stillness.

And cold.

Not the kind that bites at your skin—but the kind that seeps into your soul. A hollow, echoing cold that whispered of things lost… and never coming back.

I didn’t know how long I’d been drifting here. Time didn’t exist. Just silence… and shadows.

Then—

A sound.

Tiny. Familiar. Fragile.

“Mama?”

My eyes snapped open.

That voice.

God—that voice.

My heart stuttered in my chest as I turned. Everything around me remained a blur of silver fog and darkness, until something small… glowed.

A light. No, not a light—a child.

A little boy stepped...