Chapter 2: Chapter 2.The River of Souls
I am very, very, very hungry, and the cold is freezing me to the core of my being, all of it merging into one cocktail of abominable sensations that won't stop.
Where am I anyway, I've never been in a place like this before. The cold again, I can feel it taking something from me, and I am getting hungrier and hungrier. It was as if my soul, my memories, my dreams, my desire, were being taken away.
The cold seized my body again, but is it my body? It's dark and I can't see anything. It's like a full range of strange sensations. Oh, a little fire!
Although I would call them echoes of flame, as I saw a light, there were others, different ones. In this place there were a lot of them, they differed in shape, and the power of the flame, that is, the heat released. I approached the small flames, and no matter what color they were, they were all warm, and I absorbed this heat with particular greed.
Rarely, but on my way there were such large pockets of heat, which reminded me very much of fires, just like in my youth, I remember how with my parents ... and do not remember with whom, we went to nature, made a fire, brought it to coal and roasted barbecue, hmm, what is shashlik? Surely something tasty.
But after many such sessions of "warming up," I realized that such fires are not afraid of me, so I particularly carefully absorbed them, and I think even my soul became happy. Every time I took away the warmth, the cold and hunger receded, but after some time it became cold again and even lonely.
And so, during my daily activities, that is, absorbing other people's heat, I realized that there was something wrong with me, as if I was not in my right mind. Now I began to have questions as to why it was so cold and where in the world was I! Holy crap! Why didn't I think of the most important thing from the beginning! So come on remember, I remember myself and my character, my last memory of being a student and my parents, right my parents, what about them?
And how I ended up here in this...empty space, let's call it emptiness, where there is nothing but lights, I do not remember. Apparently this cold erases or absorbs heat, just like me, slowly absorbs memories, no not only memories, but myself. And if I think about it, all these lights remind me of the souls in the river of...ahem, souls, which I read about in my youth, very often it came up in all kinds of fanfiction about rebirth and transmigration. It follows that I am also a soul, and apparently not a simple soul, because I myself have already exceeded the form of a fire, but I did not resemble an unquenchable fire.
So if this is a river of souls, then everyone in this place is being "cleansed". And the heat I absorb from the souls is their energy. Well that's all well and good, and I'm really very impressed, and I think it's right, but I don't want to be "cleansed" in any way! I have already begun to notice that these fires, or souls, are not enough, and the cold does not plan to retreat. And I cherish my memory, though it is no longer complete.
I have to "feel" the current of this river and go to rebirth, because I am tired of being stuck here! In the direction in which I tried to "swim" In the end of the day, the light goes out, and I think that's the state in which they go back to life, but I do not want to lose anything, so let's try to fly with the trailer.
Uh, it worked, but the passage itself is pretty small, let's try to make it bigger! Uh, what?! It ate half my reserve. It's still kind of cramped, but we'll get through. Here we go...
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Mmm, I like it much better here, it's very warm and cozy, and the hunger has completely receded, as if it never existed. There's no need to fight for your existence and the chance of being, now you can relax, and yes please note there's no cold, no lights. It is true I can not move, I can not see anything and the thought process is somehow sluggish and inhibited, but still it is much better than the threat of oblivion and the wild freezing cold and eternal hunger. Wow, I feel sleepy...
In the end, what do we have? My death, which happened it is not clear how and when, came to consciousness in the river of showers, it is not clear why. There I was not quite adequate, but my excuse is a constant threat of cold and oblivion, they are such, very pressing on the mind, and the constant hunger is clearly not adding sanity.
Speaking of soul energy, I absorbed so much of it that it begs the reasonable question "won't anything bad happen?" I had absorbed so many other people's souls, and I wonder what's in store for me. Maybe I will be able to do magic or to store energy, it would be cool. The main thing is not to become some kind of insect, my gut feeling is that we have a mutual dislike for them, oh, I feel sleepy again...
So, where was I? Oh yes, the main thing is not to become some kind of bug and insectoid or a woman, but not a woman! I don't want to.... okay, I'm going to lie down and rest.
Weekly Power Status
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