The Man’s Decree – Chapter 5980

His eyelids unpeeled with the stubborn weight of dried glue. Blur and brightness wrestled for focus until a human outline swam in front of him.

Jared scrubbed his knuckles across both sockets, light smeared, but the figure stayed unresolved, haloed by a pale glow.

"Who are you? Where am I?" The questions came out thin, as if spoken from underwater.

The silhouette turned.

Recognition slammed through him; he lurched forward, arms closing around the blurred shoulders, tears Igniting behind his eyelids.