Margaret the spider and an old man on a log

as the old man sat there on the log around the fire in the endless void where the sky was white and the ground was black or was the sky black in the ground is white?

another Spirit came out of the Mist that surrounds the whole place and Just wandered around the old man could see probably a hundred different ghosts spirits entities Souls whatever you want to call them come in and going from the fog

one of them came over to one of the logs surrounding the fire and sat down the old man smiled is very rare for one of the spirits to take a moment of introspective clarity that was the only time he could honestly talk to them

so he basically just started with hello and who might you be

she without even thought replied Margaret and ask where she was and if she was dead

he chuckled softly and apologized to her but said yeah I believe you are dead but that's not the end all you have to do is walk back into the fog to be reborn

they seemed to come Margaret down and she just enjoyed sitting there for an hour a day a week a second time didn't really flow correctly here it was the Nexus of All Souls

the Old Man looking at her and had looked at so many of the spirits over the years could tell small things like if she was a little more solid she had a better Karma than if she was more see through the ones that were see through had very bad karma and when they went through the fog the bad ones didn't have a lot of material left to create their new bodies so it was a smarter idea to be a good person get a lot of your spiritual form and then be reborn and hopefully a better body

because the old man needed some help and he liked Margaret so far he asked her what do you want to do when you are reborn do you know what didn't you like about your last life?

she sat there and thought about it and then simply answered “ I liked to teach and I know it's a little weird but I like spiders I didn't have a family I was very alone so I would like a family in the next life I wasn't beaten or abused but I was bullied when I was at school so I'd like to be stronger than I was last time other than that I don't know I just really like being in my little room reading and learning and even writing I created leatherworking and I was a Craftsman I think I'd still like to be a Craftsman

the old man just smiled and passed her clean into her hand

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she took the coin and asked him what she was to do with the coin

he just said hold it tight and make a wish and then throw it into the fog

she stood up turned around closed her eyes Wrapped both hands around the coin and wished for a good new life

then like a pictures throw she threw that coin as hard as she could into the fog

She then looked back at him and he said good luck just walk into the fog

After an unknown amount of time the old man just smiled and looked up at the fog and said to himself I was getting bored but now this will get a little bit more interesting I wonder how far they'll get before I see them again and maybe next time they'll do better than this time

the smile on His face was of pure joy evil mirth happiness and love it just was pure smile it would make the Joker fearful

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Margaret didn't know where she was all she knew was she could feel other babies fetuses small things in a bubble pushing up against her and she had eight legs that was the first thing that kind of freaked her out

that lasted about 2 days where at that point one of the other spiders clung on to her and hugged her at that point the odd feeling of everybody pushing up against her in the sack changed from Fear To Love and somehow as she grew she understood that she was feeling all her family and Mom all around her it was telepathic so a telepathic spider kinda

well she doesn't know how long she was in there but Margaret grew bigger and bigger until she couldn't take it anymore and her brothers and sisters pushing up against her they were all pushing so hard that all of a sudden they felt all the pressure relief and light come in as a whack of spiders fell out

took her a couple of moments but she pushed her way out ahead of some of the other ones and as she left the egg Sac she saw it was still attached to her dead mom

her mom gave up her life for all the little babies she gave her mom a hug and left no more to be done here plus watching her brothers and sisters eating her mom she just didn't feel right and she had to run away

she was in Earth tunnels Underground and that's where she stayed for at least days weeks as she got bigger it wasn't until after her third and she ate that she had found and followed the tunnels up and out did she found the sky and when she saw the sky she saw the night sky but in the night sky wasn't the Earth's moon there was seven moons in the sky and a giant planet like a gas giant it was she just sat there looking at it until the sun came up

her next couple of weeks were learning how to be a spider how to eat how to feed she made nuts she made webs she worked her butt off but it wasn't until she killed something bigger than her did she come and find out that this world she was in was a little more different because she got the following message popped up in her vision

Welcome child

you have grown up enough that you should have enough intelligence to understand these words if you do understand these words please jump up and down three times I the system will recognize that and understand that you can see this prompt thank you

thank you I hear by recognize that you have jumped three times and can read this message this gives you a plus one to intelligence

you may be asking yourself why is there a box in front of my vision right now and what do you mean plus one to intelligence?

Margaret saw this and had to stop and think for a second this is like a video game except there was nothing to touch or push she took one of her legs and touch the screen in her eyes and went right through didn't do a thing

so she realized it must just be visual and sensory so she could see it but I'm guessing no one else could see what she was seeing

she then went back to looking at the text boxes that were popping up in front of her and as she read it the next one would pop up and the one she just read would close but if she thought back to the one right before it would pop back up so she still had access to them all like a rododial