My name is Charlotte. I am a quiet person. I mind my business and I help others. So how did my life come to this? ...
"EVERYONE ON THE GROUND" shouts the robber. I wince at the sound of a gunshot and an elderly man crumples to the ground before me. My legs shaking, I kneel and lay against the marble floor. The tiles are cold against my cheek and I find myself eye to eye with the old man I'd been helping only moments before. "Not you," the robber's voice rings through the bank's high ceilings, making his voice echo. I stand and dust myself off, "How can I help you." He stomps over to my counter and places the gun against my head, "give me the money" he snarls.
He changes the aim of the gun to a young man across the room holding the hand of his elderly mother. "Wait!" I cried. "I'll give you the money! All of it!"
"Good" he shifts the aim of the gun back to me as I turn me back to open the vault. My brain races through the outcomes of this event. I begin to dial the number of the police and make it look as if I am putting in the passcode of the safe. "BANG" my chest begins to bleed through my shirt as I fall to the ground covered in my own crimson blood. "Hello!9-1-1, yes, I am at dragons-vault bank there is a robber here and... a.. and... " my breath falters and my pulse slows. No, I still need to explain what's happening. "I... I'm dying.. Make sure everyone else stays safe and..." I can't continue. My final move is to slide the phone towards the old woman and her son. She reaches down to pick it up, tears running down her cheeks. My eyes close before I can begin to cry myself...
Regardless of my loss of body I begin to feel something. A warm feeling like nothing I'd ever experienced before. Somehow my thoughts continued and my brain continued to work beyond my death but I wasn't alive any longer and the thought of moving on scared the parts of me that still could feel fear. "Hello" an echo pursues me from a distance. "I have an offer. Come with me and live or move on and lose your soul forever." I didn't have to think long, losing my soul sounds awful. "Live and move on." I said, thinking that I could go back. I could go back and save the boy. And his mother. That I could go back to my children and my husband. They worry about me everyday and I don't want to leave them like this. Not when there is still so much to do. "Then move your legs. Walk alongside me and follow me into life."
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I am The Daughter Of The Dragon King
FantasiaAfter she dies she is reincarnated as a princess in which she begins her journey of discovery and acceptance while she faces her past life as well as the one ahead of her.
