When I wake up I find myself inside a big room. The walls, the floor and the ceiling are completely white. There is nothing inside this room. The reason I know it is a room and not a void is because I am leaning against one of the corners and on one of the walls facing me is a also completely white door.
As I stand up I finally realise that I am completely naked. I mean, as long as I stay in this room I think I will be fine staying naked, but I don't know what awaits me behind the door. If there is some kind of god I want to avoid meeting him completely naked because I would be pretty embarrased. Especially if god is actually a woman. That would be awkward.
As I stand there suddenly a set of clothes appears in front of me. (What is this Harry Potter?) I put them on and walk in front of the door. You may wonder why I am so calm. Well I am not. I just don't want to admit that I wasted a couple of minutes freaking out in my corner when I woke up and when the clothes appeared.
But now I calm down as I stand in front of the door and open it. It is pretty anticlimactic. Behind the door I see nothing but a long corridor with doors left and right that leads to a black door. I try to avoid the black door, but every time I stand in front of one of the other doors a voice inside my head tells me that it won't open. And they really don't. So I have no choice but to open the black door.
The room I woke up in and this one differ in just three aspects.
1. It is completely black. (duh)
2. There is a second golden door at the end of the room that emanates some sort of light.
3. A person in some sort of robe holding a staff is standing in the middle of the room. Because the light from the corridor does not reach very far inside of the room my only clue is the silhouette outlined by the light from the door.
"Finally. WE have long awaited this moment" -???
The man in front of me speaks to me. I can tell he is male now because of his voice. But something else is bothring about that voice. Despite talking in a language I have never heard I can understand him perfectly.
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"You certainly have many questions. But sadly we don't have time to talk. All you need to know that everything you will see behind that door is real. As is everything you experience right now."- ???
While he speaks these words the golden door behind him starts to slowly open and the black door behind me closes shuts with a slam. With horror I see long arms coming outside of the golden door that are reaching out for me completely ignoring the man in between. I fall on the ground and crawl away from the hands.
"You do not have to feel fear. They won't harm you."- ???
Just as the hands reach me I close my eyes. I expected the hands to just grab me and drag me across the room. Instead they softly lift my up body and carry me across the room.
"When you arrive on the other side I just want you to remember one thing..."- ???
As I am carried past the mysterious man I turn myself around to look back. Now with the light from the door lighting up his face I can finally see him. He looks like a man in his mid-twenties with short black hair and green eyes that gently look into mine.
"We will always be with you." -???
Now I can see more silhouettes appearing behind him. Most of them are just as tall him but some are significantly taller or smaller. But I can't take my eyes from the man in the robe as I am being carried through the door. But just as I am about to loose sight of him I have a shock. Because for one second I thought the face that keeps watching me was my own, although it did not change the slightest. But that is impossible. I know that I have brown hair and blue eyes. And you don't forget your own face. Right?