CHAPTER 2:

WHAT?!

Huh? What the heck. How am I thinking? A bright white blinds me as I look around. I try to turn my head but there's still a blinding white light everywhere. I feel like I’m floating but there’s nothing but my sight. The whiteness seems to never stop.

The heck? It’s like I’m floating but I have no senses other than my eyesight. No internal or external senses. Not even breathing or anything else that is normal. This feels extra weird. I try to blink but nothing happens.

Okay, this is getting me nowhere. First, I should answer all of my questions. What is all of this white stuff that’s in my vision? This could be the afterlife? I could’ve survived and been drugged?

I try to think about when I was driving before I died. The things I was thinking about at the time flashed in my mind like I’m just thinking about them. Okay, I still need more.

I think about the time I was packing up my backpack and it feels like I’m doing it. Everything I saw and felt fills my entire vision. I couldn’t control what was happening or what was going on but I can pause it or pick a certain part. Even things I didn’t remember like the air conditioner or the color of the folder I needed appears in the split-screen-like memory.

Woah, That is not brain damage. Or maybe something clicked inside? I don’t know but that isn’t normal behavior. Well, let’s think of this logically. This could be coma or maybe this is the vegetative state I hear that people go in when something like getting hit by a car happens.

But, the problem is I wouldn’t be thinking at all. Wait, could this be the coma? Or could it be the afterlife or some weird god stuff? Heck, it could be any religion. Also, the third option. This is what happens after death and there's no way to get out and it’s just blank.

So 1, 2, and 3. 1 would be coma or some kind of vegetative state. 2, Some religion or afterlife. 3 would be some kind of blank space after death.

WAIT, why am I so calm about maybe dying? Like, all of my family and friends will miss me and me too. All of them are gone and all of my progress in games basically has been reset to zero. Everything I own or that I achieved is gone. Nothing, just nothing.

And even if I survived the medical costs would be insane. To add to that it also means I may not even enjoy some of my favorite things because I lost an arm or I’m paralyzed. But, it would still be better to survive. So, 1 would be the best and 2-3 are equally bad.

I “look” down. Even though I have no markers to tell me if I looked down. A yellow-ish hue is coming from where the center of my body would be if my vision is near the head. The yellow hue coming out is also transparent. Okay, that’s something other than the absolute whiteness. It doesn’t mean much but it’s something.

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Wait, that absolutely means something. That means option 3 is out since that was nothing. Still, it’s a 50% chance of either 1 or 2. But, the more I look at it option 2 seems more correct. The amount of blood loss and the damage to my body when that happened would be pretty much dead. Plus, when you think about it, I wouldn’t have been found in time. So, the only feasible option is number 2.

That’s a shame. There’s nothing I can do. Now the only question is what religion or afterlife this is. I didn’t really study any of that stuff since I didn’t believe any of it. The only ones I know are the Christian thing, reincarnation stuff from India, and then the Spanish afterlife.

“Ehh, fair enough.” A male voice says from behind me although it feels a bit distant like a person behind a door. Hey, that’s another person! Option 3 is gone! “Okay, next…” he says in a bored like tone.

I wonder what religion it is? Or afterlife? I was never a religious person so anybody that had another religion than this will be… Really sad. That’s the main reason why I didn’t pick one.

“Oh, this one is going to Drda.” He says in a more cheery voice. “No religion and male, plus 19-years-old. Sad,” he says. I “look” around to see a middle-aged man. He’s wearing a white rope and the only way I can tell this is because of the outline and folds. He has a small white rectangle with curved edges that illuminate his face with a blue hue more than the white background. He reads the “Device” and taps it a couple of times.

Okay, this doesn’t give any clues on what this is. “Well, great, you died,” he says looking at the space above the yellow orb. “Okay, let me tell you something. I’m not going to erase your memories since you died so early and…” He whispers to me.

“Well, just don’t let anybody like the overseers know this. Please, don’t tell everyone you see in Drda. Anyways, you have to go NOW!” He says in a stern tone. “Also, this is the reincarnation stuff from India. I don’t know much about India but this is like it...:” He says.

Eh? “Also, to hide some tracks I’m going to have to reincarnate you as something else. Not human.” He says. Oh, no. What if I reincarnated as a goblin for god sake. Wait, reincarnation’s sake.

“Also, before you reincarnate here’s a few things you need to know. First, this is Drda and it’s a fantasy world. Magic and stuff. Plus, I tried to replicate all of the spells in your Earth fantasy genre. So, you should have a good time. Bye, I hope we’ll meet again.” he says. He tilts his head a bit and smiles.

My brain starts thinking at lightspeed. Oh, no, no, no. I don’t even know what I’ll be reincarnated as! He did say it resembled Earth’s fantasy genre so that should give me an edge. It’s a good thing that I read and plays a lot of fantasy stuff. Why am I angry anyways? There’s nothing that I can do and this is like a dream for fantasy guys.

I start to feel myself turn into a string. My mind feels very constricted and thoughts take much longer. My vision turns white and it feels like something is burning everything. My mind feels like it changes shape again and then feels like a box. Everything is now black I don’t feel constricted but I do feel like I can't feel anything else than my thoughts.

I feel myself drag into a tunnel. White and black shapes appear in all directions like broken glass before slowly fading out and disappearing.

I see colors at the end of it in a weird way, like a 360-degree video being put on a 2-D surface. So this is how reincarnating feels…

I feel myself hit the image in a way. The image ripples and surrounds me. It’s like when a ball hits fabric and it covers the ball. Okay, let’s start my new life...

[End of Chapter 2]