Suddenly I hear a voice.

»Soooo... You finally realized what you needed?«

The voice sounds like a little boy. It is not like hearing sound, more like a vibrating feeling deep within myself. It doesn't even say it, with words but whatever way it uses to 'talk', I somehow understand. Is this what it is like hearing 'voices' when you get mad?

»You are not getting mad! You are dead, for a while now and you already have realized. Quite soon if I may say so.«

This voice, vibration, somehow is able to read my mind and that concludes it is me talking to myself. So I AM driving mad!

»No you are not, I already told you!«

»AND I already told you, it's creepy if you just read their minds and answer to them through their thoughts!« begins another voice. This one sounds more female and extremely childlike, too.

Different from the 'boy' this one feels more like actually hearing the voice.

A second voice in my head? Soul? I don't even know if there is anything like a body for me. Two voices are talking to me which makes me more confident in getting mad!

»I'll give you a body first, so it will be more comfortable to talk with each other.« says the girl and as soon as she finishes this sentence I am able to see.

The first pictures I am able to see in a while. 

But all I see is a dark space dotted in different colours. It feels like drifting through one of the pictures human drew of their imagination how colourful the universe looks like in space.

And right before me there are two human children wearing wide grey cloth. They seem to shine in slowly changing colours. Those change from yellow to green, become blue and sometimes mix themself with the light of the surroundings. A boy and a girl.

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This is it! I am really driving mad! Seeing images, hearing voices. Did I not die from cancer but an overdose of LSD? I never tried LSD before but this is how I imagine it feels like.

»How often do I have to tell you, you are not getting mad!«

»I guess if you just had told him what's up he would not assume to be mad«

This time both voices sound just like talking normally to me. Surprisingly the boy has the feminine voice and the girl the boyish one. So I will have to change the genders now. What a pain.

»Why didn't you do it then?«

»It's your turn, I am just here to look over you, I am bored.«

»Okay okay. Welcome to the plains my dear lost soul.-«, began the girl with the boyish voice to say.

»You finally realized what you were regretting all along.«

»Regretting all along?« I am surprisingly able to speak.

»Even when you were still alive, you sought human interactions and wanted to be near them, but you somehow always evaded this and were absorbed in your studies. Finally after being on your own, with nothing else to distract you, you realized your only regret. Your loneliness.«

»And after leaving me alone all this time you just somehow decided to free me from this eternal... boredom?«

»Time? That thing doesn't matter here.« says the boy intruding our conversation.

»Nothing matters here if you get me.«, he winks and seems to have made a joke. I'm not sure whether that was a joke about the matter not existing in this space or something philosophical, perhaps both?

»Whatever. Before you ask anything, we are neither angels nor gods. We are just beings allowed to give you a second chance. In another world.« the girl continues.

»And what if I don't want to?«

»That doesn't matter. It's already been decided. We are just here to inform you, that you will be reborn in another world. You may not be able to know specific details of your last world, like languages, your name or things like that. Mainly about unnecessary things you won't need.«

»Does that mean I will remember things?«

»Yes you will! Exactly«, says the boy.

»What else would be the reason to let you realize your regret?« follows the girl.

»Well that's the gist of it.« the boy says.

»My job is done. Have a fun!« finishes the girl.

Both wave at me to say goodbye and without any chance to do anything or answer I feel something pulling me away.

The next thing I realize, is a heartbeat. I am in the womb of my 'new' mother. Naturally I am not able to do anything. 

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So I slept for a long time.

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