It started with an alarm. A message on something as everyday as my phone.
EeeAaaEeeAaa
It was the early morning and i was just platting my eggs enjoying the sound of a passing truck outside my window. I was and then this unfamiliar sound started blairing itself through my room. I didnt even remember setting an alarm or whatnot and im pretty sure that ringtone isnt an option i chose from.
After putting away the pan and spatuala i made my way across the kitchen to get back to my daily soundtrack of Wednesday morning suburb traffic. I was one handspan away before the sound stopped followed by an almost deafening ghostly silence. Something in me made me turn my head at that moment to look outside. Before my eyes could adjust to the familiar city view i was caught unaware by a blinding light followed by an apocalyptic boom that burst through my very being through my ears.
Without even noticing when i woke up. Surronded in the gore of a decimated landscape, bathed in soot and debris, and an unearthly sensation embracing me. It felt like i had laid on my side for to long and my arm fell asleep but instead it was my whole body.
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With grainy vision pointed towards the sky an alignment of what i can only believe to be jets passed over me. With a splash my vision becomes more and more grainy and almost as if bursting out of the ripples of water a new world lay before my eyes.
A garden. I was on my feet. There were others. It was twilight. The grass laid bare on my naked soles. A comfortable breeze slid across my bare chest.
Faceless denizens in a clear fog looked around. Eyes never set or locked. Only looking through, past, or over. Then i realized. Noise, sound, that gentle hum born in silence. There was nothing.
Then it departed upon me.
Welcome. In coordinance with the laws governing the universe and the print of fate you have answered a call. A cry for help.
Fret not. Success will be met with reward and failure in earnest effort will be compensated. In preperation you will be given a tool. You may touch and know what all beholds.
These words echoed through my mind. Repeating and repeating... in a strangley... familiar voice... my own.