When I was a young child my parents owned a mansion in the countryside. I hated going there because it was a house without electricity and I had no friends to play with.

So I spent my time around my father's wooden boat, it was an old and simple boat that my father built with his father and he treasured it more than anything, one day when I was playing around the boat I accidentally cut the boat's rope and the boat started to follow the river until I couldn't see it anymore.

I was sad and scared that my father would be angry with me but luckily my father was on a business trip for two days and I simply needed to find the boat. I followed the river but I couldn't find it, next day I searched for it and again I couldn't find it and that night I stood beside the river to cry, I was waiting for my father to come home and at that moment the boat came back to me with an envelope inside it.

I tied the boat up to the dock and started to read this mysterious letter that appeared. I knew how to write and read but I couldn't read this letter, it was made of letters that I didn't understand but I remembered that we had a book in the mansion that had this kind of letters inside it.

I went to the mansion and found the book, it was a translation book. I slowly started to translate the envelope, it took me two days to translate it fully and it said.

[Hello! The river current is quite strong, isn't it? Well, how are you doing Revin? I miss my old friend that sent me letters every day. I am getting quite old and If I remember correctly you should be eighty-seven by now. Well whatever, be sure to write back!]

My name wasn't Revin, Revin was my grandfather's name. My grandfather died three years ago and this mansion was left to my father, when my grandfather died we were very sad and I didn't want anyone being sad, so I started to write letters to this man as my grandfather.

Many years and people passed, that man's relatives started to write and we became friends with them. They sometimes asked me for stuff like hunting rifles, medicine, food and things about the world. I didn't know why they needed it but I sent them via boat. I never saw them personally but I felt a connection to them and the day when I died arrived.

I told my relatives about my last wish and they accepted it. They were going to put the last letter along with my corpse into the boat and let it go. I always wanted to see their side and I was finally able to. My relatives dressed me like a rich man going to a party, an expensive tuxedo that I didn't ask for.

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And suddenly I opened my eyes, I wasn't dead. I wasn't dead yet, I faked my own death to see this side. I wasn't going to visit this side while I was dead. I needed to see this side with my own eyes, meet the people who wrote me and deliver this last letter to them.

The boat hit the shore and I started to look around. There was no one around me, I saw a smoke and it smelled like something was burning. I feared the forest was on fire and so I ran to the smoke.

I got out of the forest and saw a village that was being burned by people that looked like knights, I was surprised for a second but then I realized.

Are they shooting a movie here? It is fine but they shouldn't use fire. It can spread to the forest easily.Let me talk to the man in charge.

I walked to the village, a couple of villagers noticed me walking and they hid for some reason. All of them looked poor and hurt.

Those are some nice actors. I kinda want to watch the movie.

A knight slashed a running villager with his sword, the villager's blood got on my face. This seemed a bit too real to me but I wasn't going to back down, I needed to warn the man in charge about the fire spreading to the forest.

The knight turned to me and looked surprised for a second like he saw a god. He dropped his sword and yelled to his comrades. I didn't understand anything they said but they surrounded me and started to talk to me.

"-------------------" The knight said but I couldn't understand them.

"I am sorry but I can't understand you." They all looked at the same knight, a young knight and so he started to speak.

"You. Be. Leader?" He sounded like a foreign.

So they hired foreign people, now I really want to see this movie.

"No, I want to see your leader?"

"Me. Be. Leader. You. Be. Capital. People?"

"Oh you are the leader, now you see that fire over there? Please put that out."

"Fire? We. Be. Burn. Heretics. Holy. Order. By. Capital. Religion. Man."

Burn heretics? Holy order? Religion man? What is this? a movie about medieval times? But I still my gut is going crazy, there is something wrong here.

I looked at the villager that was slashed, his blood was still on my face. I crouched down and poked him. He didn't move, I shook him but he still didn't move. I was getting scared and checked his pulse. He wasn't acting like he was dead, he was really dead.

W-What is going on? Isn't this a movie set? Why are all of them looking at me like I am a monster? There is really something wrong here.

And then the most obvious thing hit me, the thing that was making my guts go crazy. It was the moon, there were two of them and I immediantly understood, I was not in the world called "Earth" anymore.

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