Like Tears in Rain

[Kennifer]

"Well, we mostly got to know each other after that, actually, but..."

Amy paused for a moment, taking a deep breath before she continued.

"Sericle... had died quite early, actually, like... right after we'd all gotten to the cabin. A whole group of us had gotten snowed in, and there were these death cultists out to kill us. Actually, that was why I'd went, but I didn't want to tell everybody... see, I'd had this condition then. I had to get one of the cultists to kill me, without, you know, outright telling them to kill me, because that way the Avatar of Life that was there would've been able to bring me back. I... failed in this, and because of my condition I..."

She took another pause, looking quite uncomfortable at retelling this.

"...I faded out of existence. And because there wasn't a body, I couldn't be brought back. Sericle was, though. And of course I'm not exactly sure what happened next because, well... the whole not existing thing, but somehow I'm here now, and we met up after the trip, and became friends. I'm... I'm not even sure how I'm here now, or whether I'm supposed to be..."