Unthersee - The End

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Suddenly I regain consciousness and a stifling feeling of suffocation overcomes me.
After taking a very deep breath I just lay on the ground, try to control the incipient panic and inhale and exhale as calm as I can.
What the hell happened just now? Did I really lose consciousness on my way to the supermarket without any signs and symptoms beforehand?

I open my eyes slowly but am forced to close them again right away because the dazzling sunlight is just too strong.
But wait! Why is the sunlight this dazzling? There shouldn't be so much light shining on the street I was walking on. Am I not longer under the old trees next to the alameda?
Kind of confused I slowly sit up and open my eyes afterwards.

The shock shoots through my body. I am not were I was before I lost consciousness. I don't know if this place is even near the street I was walking down.

Under my hands I can feel soft grass which is in the greenest green I have ever seen and only a few flowers in light colours and with fascinating forms are abnormalities in this perfectly green area but these abnormalities seem to make the whole picture even more flawless.

When I follow the grassland with my eyes to the horizon I can see that a few meters ahead the world just seems to end.
Fluffy clouds snuggle up to the meadow I am sitting on, almost as if they are trying to find a confederate in the vast of the deep blue sky.
Even when I turn around and look behind me, in a few meters there is nothing but the sky and some clouds.

I absolutely have no idea at all what this place is and where I am but even though I should be in paralyzing fear in such an unrealistic and totally unexpected moment, I feel extremely curious and am full of zest for action.
What kind of place is this? Does anyone live in this region and above everything: how did I come here?

I stand up to go a little bit closer to what seems like the end of the world.
Looking down, I have a crazy view that is so unbelievable that only very few of the most fantastic books I ever read were able to create an similar breathtaking atmosphere.

Under the meadow, I was kind of marooned on, is just the sky. So many meters of air are under my feet that I can't even imagine how long I would fall in case I make just one wrong step.

Between me and what seems to be the far far away earth are even more of that kind of rock I am standing on, with the most diverse landscapes.
On a very big flying rock just a little bit under mine, I can see a wood with trees in a very dark green that have leaves in forms I have never seen before.
On another one, a little bit more to my left, I discover a lake in sparkling blue and colourful birds all around it.

After exploring some of the rocks in the sky with my eyes, I suddenly realised something new.
On one of them I can identify something in the distance that seems like a city or a village.

The village consists of a few houses that are made of something that looks like white airy fabric and these lightweight accommodations are even moving softly in the breeze.
Each house is connected with another through small paths and these lead to delicate bridges which are mostly suspension bridges, in soft white colours and with elaborate handrails. Some are even decorated with flowers or other plants.

These bridges seem to be the connection between the flying rocks in the sky and from my position I can see that they almost look like a filigree spiederweb from above.

Suddenly my eyes discover humans walking on these bridges, paths and in the villages but somehow they have a very preternatural aura around them.

The way they walk, the way they look and the way they act with each other seems very evident that these creatures are not human or at least from a very far away place.
It is amazing how every step they take is this gracious and how tall and lean they are. Their movement gives me the feeling that they are actually made of air because they look really light in weight and and their actions are so fluent and soft.
Their hair and skincolour is unusual too since it is in a very bright white and everyone, even the men, has hair down to their waist.
It is also very interesting to see how they act when two of these creatures meet each other.
They bow very low, look into each others eyes and then they lift their hands to touch the other one as if they were trying to give a high five. The whole procedure radiates so much dignity and respect.

The clothes they are wearing are quite special too. They are made of very long fabric in light shades of blue, green, brown and white and look elegant and simple at the same time.

After trying to digest this amazing view and all these new things, I remember my own situation.
The question, why I am even here, is not answered yet and it is a little bit worrisome to not know how to come back to the place I came from.

Am I even alright after this strange journey? I couldn't check my body in this excitement and shock so I look down my body to see if everything is how it is supposed to be now-

-And am shocked to death. I am not longer wearing my own clothes but one of these strange dresses the people here wear. It is in a soft blue and has a tight white ribbon around my waist that allows me to wear the dress comfortable.
Moving my eyes up I realise I even have the same long and white hair as the inhabitants here.
To be true, my whole body isn't mine.

That sounds so irrational but these legs are too long and these muscles too trained to be mine and these hands and feet are too filigree to be mine too.
This feels extremely strange, moving a body that I can't identify as my own.

Then a new thought comes to my mind. What if I was- how ever this could happen- interchanged with the soul of the person this body belongs to?
And what if this girls soul was supplanted by my soul and I took her body, identity, time and life?
What if I was transported into her body and she died this way?
What if I killed a person and took over her life?