Anidita: one soul, two bodies.

17: The secret meditation: the book

When I got back to my room, I shut the door behind me, and sat on the bed , "secret meditation" was a small leather bound book, In excitement, I opened it, I flipped to the first chapter and began to read.

1)Death and the soul

In these meditations, I will attempt to consider the idea of the death as not dead. Matter of the body and soul are ones that our faithful government and justice would like to keep hidden. So, with the Idea that knowledge should be accessible to all men, I'll divulge in these writings the little known fact about life and death.

Humans are made of two things -- a body and a soul. Upon death, a person's body dies, after which point his soul is "cleansed" and reborn into a new person. This is why some moments feel like. We've lived them twice, why a person can often have the same essence as someone who died decades before.

The text was prepared with diagrams and sketches. I flipped to the next section.

II) The death of children

The matter of children is one that is particularly troubling to adults. all adults follow the rules stipulated in part first of this book. however there is one exception, when a child dies , his soul leaves his body. yet in opposition to our education of the biological process of life and Death, the child does not die. Instead of "dying" as adults bodies do the child's body lies dormant for six days. on seventh day it rises again without a soul. the child then wanders the world, searching for it! it's my thinking that it's nature's way of giving youth a second chance at life. They are what we call Non Mortuus, or the undead.

Non Mortuus. that was the word on chetna's file. Did that mean she was Undead? beside the text were more sketches. I flip forward.

III) Non Mortuus

The undead have no souls. They cannot be killed by normal means, as they already dead. Although they are still children, and appear harmless , this is a falsehood. The Undead have no human instincts. They do not eat, they do not sleep, they do not feel. With time, their bodies decay, and they must constantly seek ways to preserve themselves before their bodies die again and returned to the earth.

The observed characteristics of the undead are those often associated with other dead creature, skin that is cold to the touch. Breath that contains no human warmth. They have also been identified to have incredible healing powers, their wounds closing as quickly as they are broken. A lack of complete sensation and emotions. yet most notably they are known to reanimate into the best versions of themselves. Stronger than their human form, or more intelligent or more beautiful.

My heart began to race. I was no longer thinking about Chetna or Rahul. I read the word over and over, trying to find some other explanation for what I now realised were symptoms. The cold skin and breath , The way he healed himself in a bit. I had not been seeing things , it was all true. That's why he never came to dining hall, that's why he never slept. Because he wasn't human, he was dead. but what did it even mean to be an undead?

Thus their existence is a tortured and miserable one. They have one purpose to seek and obtain their missing soul. They have twenty one years to find it, twenty- one being the number demarcating the transformation from child to adult. If by their twenty first year they do not find their soul, they begin to decompose at an accelerated rate until their bodies are completely destroyed, this is a painful process. However, if they do find the person with their soul, they reclaim it through the pressing together of mouths, otherwise known as Basium Mortis. Through this act the Undead becomes human again and lives a natural life. The victim dies and the Undead make it seem like it's a suicide.