Chapter 3 Please tell me this is heaven!

Rey was walking anxiously in the main hall of Night Palace. Jane named her home "The Night Palace" as she only goes there for sleeping and stays all the time at her office. The clock's sound was loud that it was disturbing the minds of the people who were now there seated. Dr Lin who was waiting equally anxious as Rey suddenly stood up and pointed his watch which lighted upon rising. "It's 3 in the morning. We gotta do something! I have surgery in the morning, I can't stay here for long too. Rey! We should go and search for her; she was never this late! You...

of all people... really gonna stand here, do nothing, and just wait as she told you to? What if she is dead by the morning?". Rey who was walking restlessly paused and turned to Dr Lin "Pack your needs. We are going to the Southern Waters." then he turned to Jenna, their office assistant and said, "Call the headquarters and inform them of the news and tell them to dispatch a search team immediately."

Unknown to the time, Jane's state was shifting between consciousness and trance. Slowly as her mind oscillated, she heard people running toward her screaming someone's name loudly which she could hardly recognize and when she regained her consciousness back, she saw people running towards her saying her name which she could recognize. Dr Lin and Rey immediately took her to the ambulance and were holding their breath to save her. "Hang On! Don't Give UP! Can you hear my voice? Do you know who I am?" Rey was practically screaming in her ears to keep her consciousness on hold. "Goodness Rey! You're loud AF." After a moment of silence, Ying Min again said "I think I just saw heaven! People were running towards me. They all looked worried. They called me something... I don't remember." she then continued without a pause "Rey, you know what to do. I got the recording and statement but the person who stabbed me isn't that old man. It's that woman in red. You must find her... also my dog, Bell... she doesn't like to sleep alone. Keep her close." Rey didn't expect her to say so many things in a single breath and the fear could be seen in his eye. "Save it! When you get better, tell the remaining. No more crap out of your mouth!" for which Jane hummed with a smile and laid down not moving anymore. The ambulance reached the hospital and the nurses who were waiting rushed the stretcher to the door and carefully placed her on it taking her inside. After 5 hours of surgery, Dr Lin came out of the operation theatre and sat next to Rey, "She saved the both of us." Rey's eyes were as wide as an ocean. He didn't want to hear a word after that but Dr Lin continued regardless "I could save her... but she is in a vegetative state. I can't say for sure if she will wake up as the injury is quite fatal and she also had a bad head injury. That woman was merciless. You must go and do what you have to do, I will do what I can do and let's leave the rest to fate "

Rey saw her through the window and immediately rushed back to the Night Palace. He opened the door and entered her home office to switch on the computer. He opened the iCloud storage and look at the data. Scrolling down, there was a file with a date and time which matched the incident. He copied the files and clicked on paste on to the hard drive he carried with him. As they were copying, he also found folders with different names including his own. After a moment of hesitation, he clicked and opened it. He selected the most recent one to see what it is.

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"Oh! Shut Up for Goddamn sake, Rey! I'm reading a fu*king novel. If you nag me like a nanny, I better appoint you as my maid instead!".

"This one? didn't you yell at this one and tossed it aside? Dr Jane, do you know that you still have 400+ unread novels on your shelf? Why hang on to this one? ...... also why are you cleaning it again? just how many times will you clean it?"

"Well, I like this one, except for the fact it's tooo cliché. Hmmm, at the least it got the badass female lead but she died too young and he remarried right after, that too her own best friend. What a scum! Men can marry as many times they can but women can't. If I were in this novel as his wife... I will make sure he won't ever look at other women besides me even if I'm dead. I will haunt him as a ghost! And since you forgot that I have OCD, I cleaned your laptop too and now fu*k off. Don't disturb me"

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"She really records random things" Rey smiled bitterly as he picked up the dog which was curling up in his leg. In a minute or so, he heard 'Bing' from the monitor. He closed the computer, picked up the dog's lease along with the dog and left to do what he must do. The rain slowed down as if all the water the clouds had on stock are now empty. The slow breeze was pushing the window curtains of her home office gracefully and the book she loved and equally hated fell from the window cushion and opened at a random page. 'Sapphire Dynasty's emperor Auth Spencer II ruthlessly killed his ally and a peaceful ruler of the Northern kingdom, Sean William Wales and his family taking his only 12 years old child as a prisoner and as a war trophy. Later it was unknown where that child went off the face of this earth. Karma, on the other hand, after 5 years of his ascension to the throne, let the ministers of the Sapphire dynasty join together against their own emperor killing him on the façade of illness. They finally settled on letting the emperor's only daughter Lynn Spencer who just turned 18 years old that year become their puppet queen whose only wish is to collect beautiful things ignoring the duty of being a ruler and agreeing with everything that was brought to her, just as how they wanted her to be, a puppet.'

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The sunlight was too bright for Jane to fully open her eyes. She wrinkled her eyebrows in high disbelief that someone had the nerve to pull her curtain away early in the morning. "If it's Rey, you will be in the headlines tomorrow!" She spoke holding her anger while still trying to handle the bright light that was making her slowly realize how much pain she has in her body. "Fu*k it hurts everywhere!". Jane opened her eyes slowly adjusting herself to the pain and light, only to see there were people all around her in weird clothing holding water bins, clothes... and who knows what, in their hands, looking at her in utter shock!

"Who are you all? What are you doing in my bedroom?" Jane was looking at the crowd around her and finally recognized one face among them. 'I saw him somewhere... huh? Isn't this...him? the one who ran towards me calling me by someone else's name? Wait?' "Is this heaven? I am... DEAD?" She held her head in her hands and finally settled on her own made-up fact that she was dead and reached heaven as none of them dared to say a word to anything she said.

"Please tell me this is Heaven!"