Dor wakes up in an endless space, everywhere he looks from the ground to the sky to the distance horizon pitch black images are moving on a pure white background like shifting Rorschach images.
Confused and disoriented with no distinction of where up and down is, he falls to his knees.
Not feeling the ground below, he starts to free fall.
'w-where am I!? W-WHAT IS THIS PLACE!!??'
trying to get a grip, Dor closes his eyes and concentrates. A moment later, He opens his eyes to an endless white expanse. With nothing to direct his focus to, time loses all meaning in this space. Dor didn't know how long he kept staring into pure nothingness, could be a couple of seconds or several hours
he tries to sense his surroundings but what he discovered overwhelmed him.
'This is so strange, it feels like I'm one with this space but I'm also distinctively me. it's like I'm looking at myself in a third-person view but feeling everything in a first-person perspective.'
right at that moment, a figure calls from behind.
[I see that you're finally here].
startled, Dor turned around to look at the new figure.
a man wearing a pure white priest robe stood before him. They had golden embroidery so intricate and complex that it looked like entire scriptures were woven into it.
Dor tried to focus on the embroidery but his eyes started swimming and a slight headache assaulted him.
shaking his head to get rid of the pain, Dor looked up again at the person before him but was surprised to find that the scriptures were gone. Instead, various symbols were decorating the robe, with the most prominent one being the big TAO symbol on the center of his chest.
[yeah, you probably shouldn't do that again. With your soul already damaged as it is, you don't want to accelerate its rupture by looking at someone else's soul script, and DEFINITELY not my divine scriptures that would make even a healthy mortal soul go insane].
after hearing the figure's words, Dor once again tried to focus, but this time he focused on the man's face and not so much on his clothes.
with well-trimmed eyebrows, soft white lips, an angled jawline, and flawless pure porcelain white skin, the man's face could pass as the very definition of perfection. his eyes were like a pair of deep blue sapphires with white pupils. The man had hair that was a pale shade of grey and was styled in a ponytail that extended to the middle of his back. With one glance, Dor looked in awe at the being before him. one worthy of the title of "divine".
but the moment he tried to focus a bit more, everything changed as if the whole world went through a paradigm shift!
the previous white expanse changed to a pitch-black void and the priestly divine being before him was no more. In his stead, there stood an ethnic man. tan brown skin, spiky short gray hair, and pearly white teeth, the kind figure from before gave a different feel entirely. His eyes were golden with pupils darker than black and with a piercing stare, his entire presence changed to that of a shady businessman.
'yeah, with that look, all that's left is a pair of shades and a couple of earrings to complete, and im- oh of course...' said dor as he focused on the ears next, just to see a single earring with a small tomoe symbol inside.
subconsciously, dor starts looking down. the white priestly robe from before changed into a black three-piece suit with gold embroidery. the different iconology from before now adorns the suit's cufflinks and right below the breast pocket a miniature TAO symbol sits with bright golden threads.
before dor can say another word, the new figure calls menacingly.
[you... YOU DARE TRY TO DEFINE ME!!? ME! A HIGH GOD!! I thought you were slow before but now I think you're positively deranged. do you WANT to be obliviated?? I mean you already have both feet in the grave, why don't I just bonk you to the infinite abyss and be done with it!].
"wha-what did I do?! I haven't even said anything!"
[you don't need to SAY anything in here, you dumb fuck! this place is far more profound than what your feeble mortal mind can comprehend. all you need to know for now is that this place connects your sensory organs, all levels of consciousness, and spiritual center to process and communicate with your surrounding].
"....wat???".
[....].
"....".
[...*sigh* I hate mortals....].
"can-can you repeat that?".
[I can basically read your mind right now].
"!!!" alarmed, dor quickly shuts his eyes and tries to empty his mind but all he does is thinking about not thinking anything.
[...yeah this is getting pretty fucking annoying right now. I should probably do something about this too].
right after the figure said this, dor felt a change in the environment. opening his eyes for the third time, he sees that his surrounding changed again to that of a modern-style corner office with a black and white theme and a couple of ferns by the windows. the outside looked again like that weird shifting black Rorschach images and even the few paintings around the office were the same.
at the center of the office, there was a large marble work desk with a laptop already open. there were two chairs on opposite sides of the desk and on the manager's chair sat the figure from before but it changed once again.
this time, the figure kept the same facial structure and hairstyle from before but the hair color changed to a sort of salt-and-pepper kind of look with white streaks going from front to back.
the second change was the eyes. the left eye changed to the same sapphire blue and white color but a new white Solomon seal surrounded the white pupil. the right eye though stayed the same as before but like the left eye, an inverted pentagram surrounded the golden pupil.
the last change was the clothes and accessories. firstly, the suit changed back to the priest robe from before but instead of a full white color, the left side changed to a black color with different iconology of the seven capital sins.
With a couple of earrings and a necklace, all with different symbols representing reincarnation in various cultures, the final figure looked like a fusion of the previous two.
[ahh that's better, sorry about that. usually, I don't need to make all these preparations to meet someone cause beings are worthy of my presence as a result of my status as a high-class divine being, and the ones that do visit me are around my weight class if it makes sense].
pouring a couple of cups of green tea, the man continues, [you know, you really caught me by surprise back there, barging in like that. but given the circumstances, I guess it's a must. anyways, I'm sure you have a lot of questions and we have some time to answer a few so come sit down and ask away].
dor sits down opposite the man and stares him down in silence.
"...".
[...].
taking a big inhale, filling his diaphragm, dor starts rapid firing.
"ok, what the actual fuck is going on!!!! The last thing I remember is going to sleep in my bed with my wife and now I'm here?? what even is this place?? and who the hell are you?!! first I find myself in a psychedelic episode sort of place with shifting-swirling black stains, then I meet this "sam" guy in a weird monk-priest robe like yours who could pass as the most beautiful specimen on earth that started talking about some soul stuff while I was out of it. Then before I could get a good look at the guy again, everything went dark on me and this mafia-mob boss mind-reading character starts to cuss at me for stuff I didn't do and-"
[wow wait a second there, sheesh. yeah, I should've seen it coming. it's been a while since I was responsible for some desk work stuff. usually, Grim takes care of deceased souls and takes them to the afterlife].
"deceased? wait, so I'm dead!?"
[well yeah, this is LIMBO, the land in between. when the vessel of a soul reaches its limit and ceases all function, the vessel is basically dead and the soul leaves its mortal coil and ascends here. usually, souls stop by the re-]
"STOP! STOOP! don't just gloss over my death and move on with the explanation! i don't even know how I died!!!"
[well that was rude, I'm giving you my full attention and my precious time, trying to help you and give you some answers after everything you went through and you don't let me finish one sentence!]
"THAT'S WAY MORE THAN ONE SENTENCE AND I HAVE VALID REASONS TO ACT LIKE THIS!!!! I--"
[WILL YOU JUST SHUT UP!!!!? one more word and I'm going to grind your soul to dust and feed it to the eternal abyss!!! why are you even like this? I thought from your file you will take it all in stride... wait... could it be?]
right after the man said that, he vanished before dor's eyes and appeared right before him. with no time to react, the man pressed his thumbs on dor's chest and forehead with speed and power of a speeding bullet. a loud gong sound, like a bullet hitting a metal object, passed through dor's body and a powerful electric current went through the two points like trying to connect his body to a powerline.
with a gutteral scream, dor started spasming like he was having a seizure.
[shit..]
with lightning fast speed, the man starts flashing hundreds of hand seals and with a strong kick, sends dor flying through the office, tumbling a couple of times before land flat on his stomach, unmoving.
with no time to lose, the man locks dor's arms under his knees and when he finishes the last seal, his right finger starts to glow with a pale yellow light and begins searing symbols not unlike the scriptures adorning his robes from before, along dor's spine.
with a blood curdling scream, dor's eyes roll back and he passes out.
the last thing dor hears before the world fades to black is [this session is going to be a long one isn't it?].