[The Voice]
Why did I even try anyways?
Why? I hated the void.
This nothingness, it drove me insane! Every second metered away at my mind like nothing else.
But why does that matter?
Why? Why did it matter? I killed my best friend, not to mention his girlfriend. And besides that, I probably left my own girlfriend ragged. I didn't deserve to leave this place.
After all, look at what came of it. I terrified a young woman, haunted her every moment, and several times took away control over parts of her body.
I'm a parasite.
Even in the void, she still felt a part of my presence. I was there, in her body, whether either of us liked it or not. The least I could do was minimize the damage. The least I could do was...
Disappear.
And so I waited. I quickly learned that my time spent in this void previously was best spent short. Slowly I lost track of time and sooner than I expected I lost sense of it... or even care for it. The lack of anything ate away at me. It was a series of troubling feelings. The simplest feeling was a discomfort, like an itch I couldn't place or scratch... and it just grew more and more, worse and worse, with each passing second. The worst feeling was a feeling of erosion. I felt like my body was being eaten away at, like water dissolving and deepening a riverbed. It was slow, ever so slow, but it was there... the entire time.
A part of me did wonder though: why I hadn't I felt this before? I had never felt anything like this before. Sure I had felt a creeping discomfort, a crawling fear, but nothing like this.
Was it all just chalked up to time? It's not like I could tell how long anymore. What was the point to thinking about this anyways? It didn't matter much to someone who's job was just to sit there and take it.
And time ticked on.
I couldn't hear it. I couldn't feel it.
But it passed.
Maybe she finally caught on. Perhaps, finally, the princess was done with this risk with few benefits. Someone with no value in his own world let alone hers. She still made effort for me, but I had little I could give.
Why? Your Highness...
Really! Why..? Some random bout of kindness? If only you knew how little I deserved it. Maybe then you wouldn't have bothered trying. Maybe then I wouldn't have bothered looking up from the darkness.
A sadness slept inside of me. A new one from all the ones I'd felt before.
Maybe it's just me... I laughed to myself, or so I imagined it. But at some point, I began to see you two as friends...
A longing stabbed through my metaphorical heart.
I thought I wasn't allowed those. I instinctively went to close eyes that weren't there.
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Dual Soul Reincarnation
FantasyMartin Wind was one of the top fighters in the US. Fight fanatic he was, he kept searching for new challenges and new heights, only for his career to eventually end in disaster. That was his old life. Having died, fully prepared for the aftermath...
