Hell on Earth

Medical Center.

Anna slowly opened her Kasilan Big Eyes. Before her was no longer the cold morgue, nor was the indifferent messenger of the underworld standing before her.

"Ted, is that you?"

"It's us."

"Is it really you?"

"It really is us!"

"I'm alive?"

Anna looked bewildered. "Wasn't I already dead?"

"What do you remember?"

Adam asked.

"I remember opening my eyes and finding myself in the morgue."

Anna recalled, "The embalmer was stitching up the wound on my forehead while telling me I was dead. He even showed me my death certificate.

Only then did I remember that I really had been in a car accident last night.

But I was clearly still alive.

He said only my soul remained, and it would soon disappear once my brain cells completely died.

He had come to send me on my way.

I didn't believe him!

But I had no control over my body at all.

When I could move a little, I felt for my pulse. There was no heartbeat.

I slammed my arm against the bed and felt no pain.

Could I really have been dead?"

"That wasn't death."

Adam explained, "It was the effect of the anesthetic. You were injected with chloral hydrate and fell into a state of suspended animation. You couldn't control your body, which was why those illusions appeared.

Tell me, did that embalmer inject you with something afterward?"

"So that was it!"

Anna's Kasilan Big Eyes widened even further. "He said it was a muscle relaxant, to keep my corpse looking alive so I could attend my own funeral better.

Right!

Mr. Hutton!"

"Your piano teacher?"

Adam remembered her mentioning him.

"Yes!"

Anna trembled. "Yesterday, when I attended Mr. Hutton's funeral, I arrived late. When I went up to view his body at the