When You Realise It's Real

Chapter 31

Darkness.

That was all.

I had no body.

Was this death?

But I had never felt...

...so alive.

But yet, there were two lights in the distance...

One green, one blue...

Spinning like Ender Crystals or whatever they're called again...I could hardly remember...basic things...

I almost forgot what toast was.

Hello, child.

"M.N?" I asked.

I had no body, but yet...

I could talk.

Do you know what M.N stands for, child?

"No."

Mother Nature, child. I am quite fond of the name your kind has made.

"Oh..."

My thoughts were dull and it was hard to process what had happened.

This is the other Creator, Father Moon.

"Creator?"

Don't you know anything? 

Hush, Moon, curiosity is a child's things.

Humph.

"Am I dead?"

I wouldn't let you. At the same time, others died too...from other dimensions. I couldn't let them die either.

"When can I go back?"

Patience, child...there is one thing you need to know. It has been one week since you fell from the Witherstorm.

"I've been here for barely five minutes."

Time is a strange thing.

"Is everything okay back home?"

This is your home now. Even you realise that.

I thought about that. It was true. I'd grown attached to this world, but I had only thought about it now...

Besides, Annabeth and David could do fine without me. Maybe Rory could find a way to them, but this was the place where I actually had more than one friend.

Are you ready?

"I think I'm ready to wake up now. I'm forgetting things."

Being so close to death does that. Don't worry, I'll make you remember...

Then I felt air in my lungs.

Felt limbs.

Saw...light...

And remember...

You must realise, it's real.