And now I wait for whatever will come. 

Waiting.

And waiting. I could investigate the grey smoke but it seems I can't move. I could maybe turn my "head" but I couldn't tell since all I saw was the ever changing smoke twirling about. And so I wait.

And wait.

And-there was a light! No, ah never mind. 

Waiting.

Waiting.

Waiting.

Huh? I could see something. It looked like a black screen was slowly gaining color or if someone had the brightness too low on a computer and is now turning it up by one notch per hour. My mood was improving since it looks like there would be something happening. Eventually I could see what was going on. The first thing that I could make out in detail was a woman in labor then I noticed everything else. She was in a wooden room surrounded by people in white robes. Many of the rodes had religous looking symbols while others had a crest of something green and gold. The doctors? healers? I don't know what they are since the room seemed pretty basic as well as there was no medical technology in sight and the white robed figures were doing something and white, gold, or even light green light came out of their hands and either entered the woman in labor or surrounded her. These lights seem to calm her down and take some of the pain away. I could feel my mood shift since now what was before me was not only gross but fascinating in a I've only seen this in movies and tv shows never in real life way. I could see the head healer, I'm settling on healers and the fact that this guy had a hat much larger than the rest made me think importance. Anyways, he was reaching for the woman's white gown, grasping the bottom of it he lifted it up and my point of view zoomed in and I felt like I was being sucked into the screen. Whelp, if I had to guess this would be me reincarnating. I could see the beginning and then enter the baby. Simple. I closed on the screen almost 20 centimeters before it then I got even closer the speed of which I was being pulled increased and I reached the screen and-

The had screen changed suddenly and what I saw changed my mood drastically.

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A problem has been detected and SYSTEM has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

The problem seems to be caused by the following file:

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

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If this is the first time you’ve seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer.

If this screen appears again, follow these steps:

Check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed.

If this is a new installation, ask your hardware or software manufacturer for any SYSTEM updates you might need.

If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use Safe Mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer, press F8 to select Advanced Startup Options, and then select Safe Mode.

Technical Information:

*** Error found at 000003030306830CF263::094329FCnobodyreadsthis002939FAD3023C329E ***

*** It's dead Jim. ***

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BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahhAhhAhahhAhAhAhAHAHAAhahaAHhaHA! A SYSTEM stop error? Really? BAHAahahahHAhAhAhAhhAhAhAHAHAhAHAHHAHAHAHAhAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahhAhhAhahhAhAhAhAHAHA!

I've never laughed so hard in my life. 

Regardless the screen sat there like that for what felt to me like an hour before I heard a faint noise of frustration and then it flickered then disappeared. Seems like someone noticed and now had to deal with it. Hahahahaha~ At least I have entertainment or had entertainment. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.

 And now I wait for something to happen. 

It takes awhile but the screen returns and its back with a vengence. This time it was a meter before me. The screen now showed a child growing up in a fanasty world. I assume it was the same child as before but it seemed time had passed. I saw a boy of six maybe older, I can't really tell, but he had dark brown hair and brown err hazel eyes and he was kind of skinny. Scrawny even. He was playing around the house, which meant I was watching him play around in his house. After a few minutes of watching a child play by himself I wondered if there was a change perspective button. I searched the screen then I tried to move since I had a point of reference to work with -the screen. I tried moving forward, didn't work. I tried turning my head, it worked. I looked to the left of the screen. More grey smoke. I looked to the right. I saw other....people? They seemed more than human. All seemed like they were easily above the messes. Beautiful men and women sat on furniture that would look in place with ancient egyptian pharaohs. Lounging eating fruit from fine dishes and talking amoung themselves while watching the screen. I couldn't hear them so after a while I moved on. I looked up- still smoke. I looked down. Smoke. I rotated back to the screen. It now showed the child about eight and heading to school for the first day of school. How did I know? Because the subtitles. They weren't there before but now a lot of things were different. The screen, for one, wasn't small and personal. It was now the size of a semi. The resolution was now even better than before, felt like 4k maybe 8k. The child now said farewell to his parents for the day and headed out. I watched the first few days of school. He met other kids his age and began to make friends with some of them and enemies of others. After the first few days he set up a routine and then the screen seemed to speed up. Skipping over what I thought would be very boring only stopping when something was interesting. He got into a fight. Lost. Made a new friend. Got into another fight. Won. This went on for a while before I got bored and started looking about before noticing there was someone beneath the screen doing the manual work. A technician of sorts. He looked someone interested of what was going on the screen and then went back to his tools and devices turning a dial to speed up the screen then slow it down again. It seemed he realized someone was watching him. He turned and saw me. His eyes went wide. Then he started scrambling. Pressing a button and talking into a small device like a phone then looking back at me started forward toward me. I checked my surroundings again while he approached, smoke, smoke, more than people still watching the screen. Turning back to the technician was he got to about half a meter from me. I closed the rest of the distance then pressed a small sphere to my "chest?" then I felt the pulling feeling again into the sphere, my perspective changed to darkness then I felt nothingness. If I had to describe nothingness it would be like being numb, in the dark, while on fire. One couldn't feel the fire but you knew it was there as well as it was dangerous. The nothingness was crippling. Then something changed. 

I felt everything return, as if I suddenly have all of my senses were suddenly reattached. I felt great, I was in pain, but I felt great. I had feelings back. I felt the ground beneath my back, the wind on the front of my body, the sweat that covered my body slowly slide down, and I felt a deep pain in my rips and head. I felt all of this in an instant. I opened my eyes and tried to get up, I had done this process millions of times in my old body on earth so this was natural. I shouldn't of done that. Two things happened.

First the pain in both my head and ribs increased drastically.

Second I became extremely nauseous. Both not so good. Having my eyes open for this didn't help either. What I saw through the swirling haze was not great. I saw a few people fighting monsters while others lay on the ground behind them, like myself. 

Fudge, this is going to be a long day. I thought to myself.