Watching the chaos unfold, Erik and his son quickly found themselves completely overwhelmed. They had no idea how to handle the sudden influx of waking souls.
They had naively thought their mere presence would be enough, that when the time came, they could simply gather the people and speak to them. But reality shattered that expectation. Millions of souls, not just in the capital but stretching far beyond the horizon, were undergoing the exact same baffling process, and the sheer scale of the confusion was more than two men could ever hope to manage alone.
There was simply no way the two of them could manage the growing crowd, inform them of their new state of being, and answer the mountain of confusion building around them. Yet, almost as if his internal desperation and unspoken prayers had been heard, an answer came
