Chapter 347

There was no pain.

That was the first thing Jonah noticed. He'd been carrying pain since before he understood he was carrying it, the road, the impact, the long dark after. Now there was none. Nothing hurt. His body felt the way bodies feel in dreams, light, unburdened.

He opened his eyes.

He wasn't in the hospital.

The sky above him had no color he knew, something between gold and white, warm in