The noise permeating the Surroundings was ear-shattering, and Luke quickly put his hands to his ears, squeezing down on them as hard as he could. He quickly stood up from the bench he had been sitting on and began running down the small gravelroad, hoping to reach a shelter before it was to late. The park around him was dimly lit by the few streetlamps which barely managed to light the main track up. The surrounding forest however, was as black as it was silent. Luke felt the adrenaline in his body force it to its limits, when he then suddenly heard the unmistakable sound of a jet engine.

He stopped, and slowly turned around to gaze up at the nightsky. No stars could be seen and aside from the lights comming from the barely visible scyscrapers in the distance, all was dark.

Sounds of sirens and screams started to emerge as the noise from the siren faded away, and helicopters had already taken to the skies to meet the unseen threat from above.

Luke never saw the stealthbomber, nor the bomb, all he saw was the blinding light that in an instant engulfed the entire horizon. Luke was frozen in shock, and could only watch as the light grew wider, higher, and closer...

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"so this is how i die huh", he thought. "bummer"

and with a smile, he closed his eyes. Soon his problems would dissapear.

...

"how come i can still think? i guess i was wrong about the afterlife then. And here i was hoping i'd just stop existing. Well, i guess i'm just unlucky that way".

Luke smiled in the dark, waiting for the divine entity he figured would come pick him up, but it seemed there weren't going to be any divine interventions on his part.

"I wonder what that was anyway, it seemed like a nuclear bomb, but when taking into consideration how close i was to the blast, i should've been incinerated the moment i laid eyes on the explosion. How odd" he thought, and then let out a chuckle. No sound came out however, possibly due to the fact that he no longer had a vocalcord. It was a truly bizzare feeling, not having a body, but hardly an unpleasant one. Luke had been a handsome young man, with a small frame and a wicked smile, but despite this the loss of his body caused him no grief. He could feel it. The ground under his feet. This wasn't the end, but a new beginning.

When Luke opened his eyes again, the world had changed....