Sekali, "The Sister City"
Chapter 81
The darkness about Mahkaia broke into the blessed dawn of the morning sun as a terrible groan silenced her own wails. There was a great movement within the sea of the dead beneath her and a multitude of spirits arose from beneath her feet.
The chains which bound her, fell from her wrists and feet and silently wasted away before her astonished gaze, as if the atrophy of an eternity touched upon them.
Spirits cried out in joy as they ascended toward the sun, now shining brightly above them.
Mahkaia sobbed out in hope as the once sea of bones beneath her feet shifted and changed, melting into a sea of green, fertile grasslands, dotted with the most beautiful flowers. A herd of deer grazing nearby bolted at her sudden appearance. She watched them in new wonder as they raced away.
“What is this? What blessed mercy hast thou bestowed upon thy unworthy servant, righteous Vannar?” She laughed aloud, yet in disbelief, and looked into the sun which held no power to blind her. She looked about her and then at her wrists, which healed before her very eyes, leaving no scars upon her delicately structured wrists.
Mabuhi leapt up from the floor of her room where she had fallen asleep, gasping.