Huff Huff Huff

I'm alive!

Is this the hospital bed?

No, I seem to be in a cot. My fingers are tiny and I possess no motor control over my body.

Using Occam's razor, I can easily tell what has happened. I have been reincarnated into a different world.

Well, fantastic! I am glad that the nightmare is over.

The last hour of my previous life was the scariest moment I had ever experienced. I am surprised that I didn't die from the fear alone. I had felt so helpless, my life in the palms of someone else, it was terrifying.

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Earth, United States 2022

It was a regular day at school. The weather was cloudy, with a chance of rain, and we were in Math class learning algebra. I was 16 and had no particular dreams or ambitions. However, I did want to work in IT.

Everything seemed fine until the lockdown alarm rang. I had first thought this was a drill, but I knew this was real when I saw the men in black with guns. The only emotion I felt was fear. I could hear my heart beating at speeds faster than light. My only thought was that I had to obey their orders and maybe I could have a slim chance of escaping.

They set up bombs around the academy, a couple in each classroom, each linked to a button in terrorist hands.

At this point, I could hear the sirens outside the school and the police negotiating with the terrorists. I am not religious but I prayed to every god that the officers would give in to their demands and I would be freed.

Though it seemed like god wasn't looking favourably upon me today as it seems like they set off the bomb in our classroom first as an example.

*BOOM!*

I was soon enveloped by flames. That second was the most pain I had ever felt and everything went dark.

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And that's what had occurred. Quite unfortunate isn't it?

But on the bright side, I have been given a new gift called life and do not plan to waste it.