“What, where am I.” Ren looks around to find himself in a white void. Unable to see anything, but the blinding light. He tries to move, but he can’t feel his limbs.

It seems all his senses but sight are gone. “Could I be in a coma? No, that does not make sense. I got stung by a bee. You don’t go into comas by bees you … die.”

……

“So this is the afterlife.” Ren's sight begins to clear and the surroundings are revealed to be an expanse of lights. Every light like a star. Each one a different color. One of the lights passes by. It pulses with energy and an unintelligible voice.

It touches him, and he feels his own power. It pulses in its own light. A light just like the others. “These are souls. I wonder if all there is to it?”

Time passes, and Ren thinks back to his death. I can't believe that I died in such a sad way. Not a fight, or an illness, not even the truck, but some dumb allergy. No one could have seen that coming. Nobody in my family is even allergic to bees.

Ren begins to think to his family. "I wonder how they will take the news. I hope they can move on. I mean, at least I got to do something good before going. I saved a child, would rather they take solace in that rather than mourning me. Even if the way I died was stupid."

After some time passes he lurches forwards he and all the others are drawn in one direction.

“Aaargh!” As the movement increases, a great amount of pain is brought to him. It rakes at his soul, like being awash in a sea a glass.

Crack

He feels his sole begin to creak and twist. Looking around Ren sees other soles begin to break down forming more of the void. He sees before him the soles where eroding all the time it was just his way too strong to tell.

“No!” Ren tries to fight it, but as he cracks a peaceful feeling presses down on him. “Why should I fight does it matter?” Maybe This is how it should end. As he is drifting off he remembers his last moments and a noise.

buzz

“#$%& that! I refuse to go down this way! I don’t care if this is the way things are supposed to go. I won’t be reduced to nothing, not after such a stupid death.”

“ I don’t care even if i is a test. If I have to fade to pass then I fail!” Ren screams into the void as he beings to pull himself together.

He begins to pull himself together and is able to reform his souls. But as he tries to fix the cracks even more form. “I can’t keep up with this.” As he fights to keep together he gets an idea. If I can fight it then why should I?

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Ren begins to purposely crack himself apart. Scattering his soul into many shards. But before he can dissipate he spreads his control to the sea around him. If this was all reduced sole then I can do the opposite. Ren forms the sea around him into strand connecting each piece together.

The resulting object seems resembles a large weblike structure. With a high tensile strength, and reducing the strain on him to repair the damage.

Finally able to relax after the treatment of loss is gone he begins to look around. His new form allowing him to be a bit more alert to his surroundings.

Many of the souls are gone less than a tent remains from the before. Some are far larger than they were before forming hard shells. some seams to have formed limbs and are moving about. There are in broken webs like himself. Finally, some look to have even group upon the planet like clusters.

The souls all begin to move faster. Ren suffers some brakes but is able to repair it. The souls are all deposited in a somehow larger expanse of the void. It is like a river to an ocean.

In the distance, other groups of souls are seen. all souls seem to move to flow in a downward direction. To a thing that is at a scale I can’t even fathom solar systems aren’t this big.

The body of the creature is beyond confusing. The thing seems to possess multiple limbs that each has as many manipulators. Its movements are an oddity.

It constantly bends twist and stretches in every direction. Each soul is heading for it. The ones who can actively seek to get close, and when they do they are grabbed retuning to the previous state. Then it releases the flying out into the deeper parts of the sea.

It’s doing this with each of the billions of souls that are coming in at once. the thing is like a living optical illusion. You can’t tell what it is so you try to put an image on it, but with each motion, it brakes that image and into another.

“I guess this is our judge.” Ren thinks as he too is drawn toward the creature to then grabs him in his limb. A loud noise then resonates in him. It sounds like the enter population of a planet is talking to him at once. Not just people all thing are speaking at once.

At first I the sound is deafening, but as he listens he feels his soul is healed. “ I know what this is. it is a song a lullaby, he thinks as he drifts off to sleep. The creature sending him away