No where to go, no way to save himself, nothing to do but wait for his death. He was sacred and anxiously hopeless. He started to cry then sobbing at his own misfortune and cursing himself for being so careless. The water finally filled to the top losing all willpower he closed his eyes as well as held his breath and just wishing for it all to be just one really bad nightmare. He knew better, this was his end just fading away left wanting just one more breath and burning lungs filled with dirty lake water. "Dammit."
"Leon, wake up." His eyes slowly opened to pure blinding white. They were adjusting letting in brightness, in the back of his mind he was hoping he'd be in a hospital bed hooked up to various machines and monitors. In the end he found himself sitting in an ivory pew among countless others in what seemed like a massive monastery splashed in various whites and in front of him was another figure in all white but brighter than everything else in the church.
"Hello Leon, Welcome to well what you humans call Heaven." The figure spoke in a hushed echoing tone but it's voice didnt reverberate off the vastness of the church "Heaven? Fuck I really died huh?" "Sadly yes, but good news is shortly in tow." It was inside his own head! The figure's jaw never moved. "So you're God then, right?" "One of many, some past and laid to eternal rest, some soon to form when needed, and some in the present watching, aiding and sabotaging as they see fit." "Ah, so... uh which god are you or your name for that matter?" "Unimportant at this moment." Leon paused for a few moments from their quick dismissal "So then what happens now? Do I get to spend eternity in pure bliss or um... damnation for... my past sins?"
The figure turned and smirked at the question "Stealing in adolescent youth and indulging in pornogrophy is of no consequence for eternal damnation." Leon lowered his head in shameful regret "The good news is you will be given a new chance at life." "Another life on earth huh? So reincarnation is real!" He got excited maybe he might be born with a silver spoon in his mouth this life never having to work. Or even keeping his past memories and take a more serious approach at life "Correct and incorrect, you will be reincarnated but not on earth for that matter."
The figure got up and briskly walked to Leon then faced towards him "And it seems along with some help on your time in the new life." It pointed towards the glowing going on in his shirt pocket, pulling it out was the Amulet now shining green in Leon's hand. "Enjoy your time on Origin Leon, goodbye." They took the amulet and raised it to Leon's right eye only for it to disappear with a green flash. "Ori-what?" Leon suddenly sunk through the floor then was falling seeing only a blue sky semi-covered in clouds screaming on his descent.
The Figured looked at their hand "Aiding and sabotaging as they see fit."