Level 0

Princess Alia finds herself in The Woodlands Mall, but something is off. Something is...different.

She's in the front entrance, where she expects to see a food court and pathways either left or right.

But she sees instead an elevator in front of her and a build in wall. She can't ignore it, she can't look back. This is it.

She walks forward, step by step until she hits the button. The doors immediately open. She's on floor 4. Earth realm.

The elevator moves without her pressing any buttons. She sees the bunny's face mounted on the wall, prompted to be smiling forever. She turns around and faces the doors.

Level 3, it calls out. A robotic. Purgatory.

Level 2. Heaven.

Level 1... Hell.

1...0.

She has seen this in her dream. And she's awaiting what's on the other side. Only she shall face it...

The doors don't open. And the screen behind her shows how the bunny mounted on the wall faced its last moments alive. Being shot being a hunter and stabbed multiple times, blood leaking out of its body, the head cut open...

She awaits what torture is left for her...

The doors open... A man with black hair and a white mask appear on an electric chair.

Princess Alia steps forward. She can't be afraid...

She eyes the man in front of her... Richard Rose...her father. She's barely an inch away, and that's when he grabs her by the arm.

And that's when everything floods back. The memories of her childhood, all the wrongdoings by others and by herself, all the suffering in the world, she sees it all in the third eye.

Because she's the key, the gateway of freedom between those of light and those of darkness. Merging.

She's ready, ready to face a darkness no one will ever have to face quite like her.

It is those who face great suffering who find the greatest joy, and she's here to find it. All of it.