>>6016738Four hours of monotonous walking with your new friend Val. It wasn’t the shortest time you’ve gone without a break since arriving here, but with good company right by your side the entire way, it felt like it was only forty minutes. Maybe it was because you were having fun passing the time by cracking jokes, telling stories and singing songs, but the same landscape that you’ve been looking at for the past 27 odd hours starts to feel refreshing. The healthy spring flowers, the wavy grass, the blue skies and the puffy clouds. Even the cawing of birds that migrated above you both which you started to grow tired up began to sound pleasant. Maybe it was your company, maybe it was because you were nearing the end of your posthumous journey, but you’ve never felt better. Like every joint in your body was relaxed and your mind was entirely calmed down. You’ve never felt this loosened up, either mentally or physically. Before the two of you even knew it, you eyes were met with what appeared to be the end of the pathway. The top of the hill. You both look at eachother for a moment before turning your attention back to the road ahead of you and sprinting ahead at full pace. Like an unspoken race to the top. You didn’t expect the woman to be as fast as she was, but she indeed ends up outrunning you, albeit just barely seeing as you made it to the top. Once you both reach the top and realize there is no more road to travel and no more incline on the dirt, you both have your eyes facing upwards at the sight before you.
A cloaked figure is suspended up in the air before you both seemingly by nothing but their own figure. Their shape appears human, but when you get a closer look you can notice that there is nothing inside that cloak besides shadow. A dark contrast to the bright, lively space surrounding them. A glowing, golden aura surrounds the figure. You and Val look at one another, confused. Is this it? It is nothing like what you were taught would be at the so called “stairway to heaven.” No pearly gates are found. Just a dead end in the road and a mysterious figure in ragged cloaks. After a minute of silence with the two of you standing around and unsure of what to do, you suddenly hear a voice in your heard. No, it’s not your subconscious. It’s very clearly a foreign thought intruding on your mind. “Come forth.” <span class="mu-b"> You hear that? </span> You and Val lock eyes with eachother as she raises a finger to her temple. You nod. It seems that foreign voice wasn’t just intruding on your own head, but hers as well. What’s even weirder is that you both clearly know that command was given to her and not you.
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