She shouldn’t be alive to tell this story — but she is.

One night changed everything, and now she’s sitting across from her closest friend trying to explain the impossible: how she slipped out of this world, how she crossed into something no one should ever see, and how she somehow found her way back. Her words jump between then and now, between the life she knows and the place she barely escaped, between the girl she was and the one she became.

There are things she can’t say. There are things she refuses to relive. But there are pieces she has to share — the deal she made, the rules she learned, the moment she realized she wasn’t supposed to return.

Pyreway isn’t a story about death. It’s a story about what waits when death doesn’t finish the job.