“Leela… Leela…” she heard in a whisper, as faint as a breath.

She was alone on a plain bathed in light from the sky—but it wasn’t the sun. She could see the stars and a lavish yellow moon, accompanied by that brilliant glow surrounded by shifting colors, as if it were dancing with a rainbow.

Suddenly, a radiance enveloped her. Inside it, colored lights and yellow sparks drifted around her. At its center was something that looked like a lightbulb—or at least that’s what she thought it was—because it seemed to be the source of that brilliant glow.

“Leela…” The voice came a little clearer.

The deeper she moved into...