?


    "I said that you were praying for me before. That was a guess."


    Rosalie furrowed her brows and looked doubtfully at him. "If that wasn''t a guess, how did you know?"


    Justin was in the intensive care unit and unconscious at that time. No one could have told him about it.


    "Was it when I sat by your bedside...?"


    Wait.


    Rosalie thought back and said, "When I was seated by your bedside, I did hope that you would wake up, but I didn''t pray."


    "Yes, you didn''t pray when you sat by my bedside, but when you stood outside the ward in the intensive care unit, you were praying at the window. You even scolded the heavens, didn''t you?"


    Shocked, Rosalie asked, "How did you know? Did you see the hospital''s surveince footage? Were there cameras along the corridor?"


    That seemed to be the only reasonable exnation as to why he even knew about her scolding the heavens.


    "I didn''t see the surveince footage. I saw it with my own eyes."


    "But you were lying on the bed. Were you awake?"


    Even if he were awake, he couldn''t have heard her praying outside the ward.


    "Rose, have you heard about near-death experiences?"


    "Near-death experiences?" Rosalie''s heart leaped when she heard that.


    She had heard about it.


    "Do you mean to say you''ve experienced it before?"


    Justin nodded. "Yes. It was in the operating theater that I realized I had left my body. I saw the doctors doing their best to save me. I floated in mid-air, staring at them calmly. My body felt light and I felt no pain


    tno pain


    whatsoever. I even felt rxed. I simply watched on until I felt my soul returning to my body."


    Rosalie listened to him solemnly.


    Justin thought back on his experience and went on, "I was then sent to the intensive care unit. I realized I could see myself lying on the bed through the window. I think my soul left my body, and you were standing right outside looking at me through the window. You kept talking and praying for me." Rosalie finally believed him because she had heard about this before.


    Near-death experiences involved the soul leaving the body temporarily when one was on the verge of death. Scientifically speaking, this could be an illusion. Metaphysically speaking, it was the soul leaving the body.Text property ? N?vel(D)ra/ma.Org.


    Neither side could ever convince the other.


    No one could produce concrete evidence and each side has its own exnation.


    It depended on what one believed in. If one believed in science, he would believe the scientific exnation that it was merely an illusion. If one believed in the metaphysical, he would believe that it was the soul leaving the body. No one could prove who was right or wrong.


    Rosalie believed that what Justin said was true. Agitated, she asked, "And then? How did you feel then?"


    Justin thought back on his


    experience and said, "I felt very calm


    fet


    as I looked on indifferently at everyone around me. Sometimes, when I passed by other wards and saw patients pass away and their family members crying over them, I felt nothing. I didn''t even feel the pain and remorse I always feel over Youngie''s death."


    Rosalie looked at him. Knowing that he wasn''t done speaking, she waited for him to continue.


    After a while, Justin went on, "I even saw that woman Aurora who said many nasty things about you. You couldn''t hold it back any further and pped her. Theodore then ran over and med you without asking any questions, thinking it was all your fault for bullying his girlfriend. His girlfriend looked so weak and vulnerable, but I think she''s quite scheming. But she''s scheming in an exceptionally disgusting way, using her weakness and vulnerability to gain a man''s sympathy."