Just after the creation of the universe

Death

As i send off another group i look around for any mroe new souls and sure enough there is just one. I make my way over to the soul of an old woman and when i was beside her i place my hand on her shoulder.

Hello

Before i can say anything to the old woman i hear a thought that was not my own.

It was her!

She sent me another message!

But did she not get my last message?

I begin looking around to hopefully find more souls that may carry a message for me, in the few seconds my mind was elsewhere a few more souls had appeared.

I begin making my way to all of them and begin to place my hand on their shoulders.

Nothing.

Nothing.

Nothing.

None of the new souls had a message, but i didnt give up hope, i gueded the souls over to my rock where i begin to talk with them all like i have done with so many others. Each new souls that arrives i try to come in contact with.

As i send off the latest group i see in the distance hiding behind a small rock is a rather small soul, it seems like a child of the humans. I was suddenly racked by a huge amount of guilt, knowing that such a young child had to lose their life so early.

As i get closer the child tries to hide behind the rock.

"Hello, Im not going to hurt you" I say in a voice that i could only hope would comfor the young child.

I slowly reach out to place my hand on the childs shoulder.

Been watching

Another thought enters my mind, it was her, what does it mean? She has been watching me? I immediatly try to remember everything i have done since i recieved my own realm but i dont think there was anything i have done wrong.

Wait

She can see me!

My thoughts were abuzz with ideas, ways for me to send a message back to her.

I gently take the childs hand, its clearly still scared but as it looks into my eyes i can see its fear subside a bit. I slowly make my way back to my rock with the child alongside me and take my usual spot by my rock.

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While one hand comforts the child by petting her head my other hand begins to scratch at the stone beneth me.

A long time later

I finally finished scratching a message into the ground.

Hello, Im happy to hear from you again.

I dont know how long it took to write this message but i have sent countless groups back to the river. I patiently wait for another soul with a message hoping we could keep talking, but i need to wait for the soul to go through their life before they can come to me.

Lately i have been changing my form, not consciously. Perhaps it is because humans are the most common souls to pass through my realm. I cant say that i am happy with my form, i have started to become a human skeleton, most of the humans are afraid of me now. I dont think i have spoken to a human in the past dozen groups.

Life

Why are they staying away from him? The actions of the humans in Deaths realm have started to confuse me, they used to gather around him and tell stories for so long but now when they see him they either run or scream, sometimes both.

He hasnt done anything to deserve this.

His new form may have something to do with it, but i dont see the problem myself. it must be a human thing. They all have a skeleton in their bodies, why would they be afraid of something they all have.

I have tried to send messages to him lately but the humans all run away from him, those he does manage to come in contact with arent the ones who hold a message.

so i came up with a plan, I would give a message to many souls for them to carry over, it would all be the same message. Hopefully this will work.

But he seems so alone now.

Can i make him something?

I begin to come up with a creation that wouldnt be afraid of him and could hopefully stay in his realm.

This is going to take a while.