The Last Dimension

Dark Communication (The Other Side)

Uh...........

Where am I?

How long was I asleep?

Man...I feel so much better....

I stretch. It feels good. I'm relieved.

"Moki? Hajime?" I call. I look around. It's dark. I hear muttering.

"Squeeze my hand...." the voices call. I don't see a hand. I ball my hand up in a fist, the voices seem satisfied. I hear cheering. I shrug my shoulders and keep balling up my hand.

Now I hear laughter.

Okay....

I wiggle my fingers. The voices are getting more excited.

"Alright, it's time to cut this out. Who are you, and why are you so obsessed with my hands?"

No answer. The voices are still cheering.

This is annoying.

"Hey! Talk to me!"

Still cheering. They have no idea that I'm conscious. I feel a tap on my shoulder and a kiss on my forehead, although nothing's there.

That's a little...creepy. What the hell is kissing me?

"I love you, my son...." the voice whispers.

It disappears.

"Wait!" I yell. The darkness is gone. A light is shown. The light reveals the library.

"Oh. I'm back," I think to myself. I look to my side, it's Moki. He's looking at me.

"What the hell do you want?!" I snap.

"Sorry..." whimpered Moki. "I don't have anything else better to do with myself.

"You know, you really don't have to guard me. I'm fine."

"There's no telling what could happen to you, Kaid."

"God, don't call me that!"

"But I have nothing else to call you by."

"I know...it's just...I don't think that's my name."

"Well, until then, what would you rather be called?"

"I...guess you ought to keep calling me Kaid."

"Well, how was your sleep...Kaid."

"Weird. I guess I just can't have peace anywhere. Well...it was fine at first until some weird voices in darkness were obsessed with my finger movement."

"No! Never communicate with the other side! It's pure evil! It usually comes randomly and causes instant death. Almost no one who has went through Dark Communication has come back to this world! You're lucky to be alive, Kaid!"

"What?"

"Dark Communication. It's a fatal witch craft technique where you use your body movements to talk to dark forces from worlds unknown, we call the other side."

"Oh...well, I didn't know. I was trying to talk verbally."

"That's instant death."

"Holy hell...."

"Yeah. It's hurt to see you suddenly die in your sleep. I can only imagine what happens to a person and their soul once they reach the other side."

"I don't know. I just heard voices. They told me to squeeze their hand, but I didn't see anything. I moved my hand around and...they liked it."

"Beings from the other side love movement. It lets them know that you're there. They want you to give in and let them take your soul."

"Why would I let them take my soul?"

"Because you don't see it coming."

"How do you know?"

"I hear it from users of Dark Communication who have survived."

"Hm. Surprising to hear that there was a survivor."

"I know. Don't ever do that again, Kaid. If you hear the voices in your sleep, don't listen to them. Do not respond."

"Okay, I won't do it again, Moki."

However....the other side just might know something about my life....

It's not worth dying though.

Or....is it worth dying...?

Not unless I died and just never knew....

But what's the difference between that, and dying here? Not even trying to remember my life...?