The Footbridge

The beach

Henry has woken up not for a long time, and he was sat down on something that seemed to be a canoe, trying to understand what was happening.

He remembered almost nothing, except the fact that before he went out like a light he saw himself covered with a purple liquid and, your scars on the wrists hurting.

After he has got over the nausea, he got up and noticed he was not feeling that bad anymore.

The canoe was finally back on dry land.

Henry was feeling kind of an apprehension with the idea of go out of the canoe, because even that he could not be able to remember anything, he felt bad things would happen if he decided to go out of it.

But after a few hours without any ideas of what to do, he decided to jump out of the canoe.

He was surprised when he saw a beautiful blue cyan ocean; it was as wonderful as the beaches of Porto de Galinhas, it is a tourist attraction located in the northeast of Brazil, that Henry has sightseeing when he was 14 years old.

He looked up to the sky; it was curiously boasting a kind of golden and in the same time pink color, it was almost a pink sand color.

Furthermore, thousands and thousands of stars adorned this sky, with its weak light reflecting in the water of the ocean.

Henry resolved to walk a little bit on the beach that had the sand in the same color of the sky; the sand was extremely fluffy.

Henry remembered of the hugs of his best friend, Eric Bueno, and the times when he used to talk with his virtual friend, Luã.

He was missing his previous life, and he wanted to get out of this crazy dream he was living.

(Little did he know that it was his reality, and that he was not dreaming, he was dead.

Henry walked a little more and found out several palm trees aligned in two columns, as it was part of a fancy entrance to somewhere inside of the forest.

When he got closer he noticed there was a track of white rocks among the palm trees, and this track went until what seemed to be a temple, made of white rocks too.

There were four towers of about twenty-five feet tall, and in the middle there was a pink-sand dome, that was shining a lot.

The palm trees had their white stalk, and their leaves were in a gold color, and each one was about twelve feet tall.

During the whole way there were several bronze braziers turned off in the both sides.

They were put in a distance about 3 meters among each other.

When Henry entered the trail of the white rocks, and started walking towards the temple, the day was dark.

Nevertheless, instead of the sky takes a black tone, it took a dark pink tone.

Henry was in awe with all of that, and the all bad things that have permeated in his mind seemed have disappeared.

All that was going on inside his mind in that moment was the happy memories, when he talked to his friends, hang out with them to have lunch or play video games.

All of that warmed his heart, and he was feeling so good in that place.

As long as Henry was passing through the bronze braziers, those have turned on to illuminate his way.

When Henry looked at his around, he realized that the rose bushes were growing quickly and decorating more the majestic and white trail.

Rose petals in the pink-sand color started falling slowly from the sky, and they filled the Henry's trail, he was excited to tell everything to Erik, Ana Julia and Luã and bring them to that amazing place.

When Henry finally got in the end of the trial, in front of him there were two enormous golden gates, and there were a bunch of phrases and names written on it with a weird calligraphy, that started to modify to the language of Henry as long as he was coming closer of it.

When he was close enough to touch the doors, he finally could understand what was written on it.

It was a hundreds of names of good people have passed through his life, and love quotes that his friends said to him during his life.

Henry sat down and stayed reading and admiring the doors for hours, and tears started to run down his face.

Henry has never felt loved for anyone in all his life, and now he experienced this feeling for the first time.

It was almost like if he could feel the warm touch and the hug of everyone named there, and Henry immediately stood up and resolved to open the doors.

When they were touched, they immediately have opened, and when Henry went into there, he saw himself in the center of a pink hall, surrounded by Greek columns of pink marble.

It was the pillars that sustained the people's lives, and they prevented people of hurting.

The pillars have sustained the alive souls when they could not sustain themselves anymore.

On the whole it was seven: the pillar of love, of happiness, of trust, of endearment, of friendship, of passion and of peace

Together they sustained the temple structure, it was called humanity.

(I forgot to mention, but the name was on a brass plate above the entrance doors, on the outside).

All of that had an important meaning, as the temple represented everything that held and kept the humanity.

The man is persistent, strong, gets over of trauma that has suffered, and even that he is full of scars he keeps thinking always in the good things.

The humanity has everything of bad.

The death, the violence, the theft, the adultery, the abandonment, and a lot of other bad things were originated and are committed by humans every day.

But the main characteristic of the man is, even that there is just bad in him, he keeps believing that one day he will make the good, and this temple it is what sustain this ideology.

The man tries to be better every day, for someone that he loves, or for himself.

We all always commit the bad, sometimes without realizing.

But it does not change the fact that we always want to correct our mistakes and fight for something better.

Henry lay down in the bed, and admired by the vault of glass the pink sunset.

When he finally slept, everything turned off.

For one second, it stopped existing, as everything that has happened before.

And in the same velocity that everything has gone, everything got over, but in another way.

Calm down little Henry, because your journey has just started.

You have just entered the limbo, and you already feel the effects of this place of reflection. 

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Hey beautiful souls, new chapter(full of reflections), we hope you like and if you do please vote, comment and share. And what will happen with our Henry on the next chapters? any guess?

Translated by karlajaguar