"Moon goddess, am I dead?" I ask. The beyond is heaven for the supernatural. Supernatural spirits inhabit it, full of dazzling creatures of all kinds. That is where our counterparts are before they join us on our sixteenth birthdays. The beyond consisted of good and evil, heaven and hell, light and darkness. 

"You are alive. You are strong and will be stronger," the moon mother smiles kindly. However, I want to snap at her, asking why she let that shit happen to me and why my mother died, but I press my lips together. 

"Apphia, everything I do has a purpose. And you needed to go through what you did,...