Wilting Flowers

2: Warm

"Hey, hey! It's okay, are you lost?"

At that, the girl just sobbed. She attempted to hug him, practically knocking him over. Grim stepped back to avoid the contact, but the girl just fell into his arms.

She immediately drew back, gasping and turning pale.

"Shit, I'm sorry! Uh, um... that happens..." Grim began. His nerves were off the charts.

"I- No, I'm sorry, I should have asked! But- what the hell was that?" The girl questioned.

In the void, people cannot die, but Grim's powers remained. Instead, people are given the sensation of death at the hands of this power; everything goes cold, dark, and they get an overwhelming sense of dread. Not fun.

"Let's just say you got lucky. How long have you been here? How far did you go from where you were?"

"Fuck, um... I'm guesstimating a month? I walked most the time I was here."

Well, shit. In certain patches of the void, souls can corrupt. They weren't in one now, but if she stayed in one long enough..

"Do you feel strange at all? Or any different from when you first arrived?"

"I'm really scared, that's for sure. I feel... a bit different? It's sorta hard to tell."

Grim decided to pull up the archive. The archive was a convenience given to spirits that used their soul to find other souls of the multiverse. It was a hologram that could tell you most of what you need to know about a person. Access was restricted, of course, to prevent incidents. A lot of times, spirits used them to check on family members. He would be using it to make sure that the person in front of him's soul wasn't damaged beyond repair.

With a flick of the wrist, it was up.

"Full name?" Grim asked.

"Immalyn Greystone."

Name: Immalyn Greystone

Searching....

Name not found.

What?

"Was that your legal name?"

"Yep. Did it not show up?"

"No, it didn't..." Grim muttered, thinking. "Okay, plan b. You need to eat, desperately."

"Thank god, I'm starving. Now that I think about it, how did I even stay alive that long?" Immalyn wondered.

"You can't die here. In the void it's impossible, but if we want to get you home we can't have you starving to death as soon as you get there."

"Ohh, that makes sense."

"Yeah, come on." Grim gestured to his house.

***

"So, what universe do you come from?" Grim asked, hoping for an answer.

"I don't know. I only recently found out about other ones, let alone teleporting to them." Immalyn replied over a bowl of Wheat-O's.

"Teleporting?"

Grim knew spirits could teleport, but never thought that mortals could do such a thing.