Similar cries of confusion and wonder echoed throughout the streets as hundreds of people discovered they had somehow returned from the void. The psychological impact was immediate—some wept with joy, others stared at their hands in disbelief, and a few simply fainted from the shock of their impossible resurrection.
Families that had been torn apart by tragedy found themselves whole again. A woman rushed to embrace her husband, tears streaming down her face as she held someone she had watched die protecting her. Children ran to parents they thought they had lost forever, their laughter ringing through air that had been filled with screams only moments before.
"My son... my son is alive!" cried an elderly man, clutching a young warrior to his chest. "But I saw him fall... I held his body..."
