Afterlife's Existence

When you die, do you get to choose how to spend your afterlife?
What if you did get to choose, then you wouldn't know if your Choice is the right one.
And if you chose and were told later on that it was already decided by someone else, would that make you feel helpless?

This is a story of one who is given a Choice and a destiny that seems so far away.
With the Dark rising against the thought of Change, and the Light fighting for the King; nothing is as simple as the words in stone.
And even then, the words are no longer safe from the claws of Fortune....