Awakening of the Soul

The short man's image gradually faded, and the scene returned to reality as it had been at the beginning. Moonlight spilled over the sloping shadow of the mountain and fell before Stone.

"That's it? I don't see how any of that has anything to do with what I care about."

Stone's dissatisfied voice rang out, his tone suggesting that he had been deliberately toyed with.

"Don't rush. Take a look at that gray line in your body, the one that belongs to neither you nor me. See what's changed."

Only then did Stone notice a striking red line faintly showing through the gray thread.

"That doesn't look like a good sign."

Stone was dumbfounded.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.