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Chapter 2 - Where am I?

Floating in a void of darkness, there seems to be a small light.

That small light is Luis, in a sleep-like state, just floating in darkness.

The small light, Luis, suddenly started moving, like he was waking up.

Hnnnnn *Yawn* fuuu.

"Man that was the greatest sleep I've ever had in my life."

I 'stretched' as I looked around and slowly came to the realization that I'm not where I'm supposed to be and that I don't even know where I am.

'WTF??', was my first thought as I realized I don't know where I am.

'Where the hell am I?', I look around trying to see if there's anything visible nearby.

Slowly, I remember what happened.

'So I'm dead? Huh. Guess they weren't so far off from the truth.', I thought about the novels and fan fictions I read while I was alive that had reincarnation and such involved in them.

'But what the hell happened back there?', as I just floated there contemplating what the reason was behind the sudden chaos, I suddenly realized the implications of my death. I won't be able to see my friends and family ever again, that's a dark thought.

Ridding those thoughts from my head while thinking there's nothing I can do about it I thought, 'So what now?', as I looked around trying to see if anything changed about the dark void. Seeing that nothing changed at all I just floated around the dark void.

... Literally 5 minutes later...

"Man this is boring as hell," I complained as, even though I can go without any electronics and other things for entertainment, it was still pretty boring when there is, quite literally, nothing to do here.

"What am I even supposed to do here?" I asked out loud, half-expecting some ROB to come out of no where like in the novels and fanfics I read.

...

Nothing happened.

"Guess that's just human fantasy, hoping for something better than they deserve."

So, I just floated there. Floating through the void just waiting. Hoping, hoping just something would happen. It would be pretty sad and scary if nothing really came after death.

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POV Change(3rd POV), BOB

"Annnd that's the last one for a while" BOB just finished reorganizing the reincarnation system, it handles most of the reincarnators, while BOB handles the more rare, or unique reincarnators, from time to time there are ones that catch his interest and he handles them himself instead of the system, there are also times when he gets bored and rolls a random lottery to see what happens.

"I can relax a little now, been a while, maybe around a century? Meh, doesn't matter, I can relax now." Just as they were about to start relaxing they noticed, or rather felt, something odd about 'the void'. There should not have been anything or anyone at this time, so they were a little confused.

"Ahh, great, another problem." They inspected the 'River of Reincarnation', and noticed a slight crack, barely big enough for a soul to go through. Luckily only one soul managed to slip through. They fixed the crack and went to see what happened to the soul that slipped out.

Once they set their eyes on the soul, it seemed to be falling asleep, seemingly exhausted and bored from the long time it spent in the void.

"Hmm, it seems to be absorbing the energies present in the void, how peculiar." BOB watched as the soul went back into a sleep-like state, continuing to absorb the energies present.

"Well since I got nothing to do right now, let us see what happens to the soul if it reincarnates with the energies it absorbed." Many times in these situations, though rare, the energies merge within their soul and some kind of power or gift etc., it's random really, emerges. Though this soul seemed to have absorbed more than usual, it was also in the void for quite a bit of time, now that's interesting.

So BOB decided to relax while watching the souls next life for entertainment while he relaxed on his break. And so, he sent the soul on its way into the 'River of Reincarnation' onto its next life, let's see what they had to offer.

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