I woke up with a start, again.


    "Fuck...that''s one horrible nightmare."


    I rubbed my head and tried to calm down the incoming headache.


    "I''m afraid that wasn''t a nightmare Martin."


    Woah what the hell.


    "Who said that!?"


    I jumped out of my bed and immediately grabbed my bat.


    "Reveal yourself before I bash your fucking head!"


    But the room is empty.


    "Language Martin."


    Woah, magic voice again! Okay deep breaths. Whoever is messing with me must be close, I grab my bat tightly and get out of the room to see the rest of the apartment. But it''s empty.


    "Okay, okay, okay maybe i''m having auditory hallucinations now?"


    "I''m afraid this is not a hallucination Martin."


    "What the duck!?!?"


    I jump around while scanning the apartment but it''s empty! Oh fuck, I''m really getting crazier?


    "You are not crazy Martin."


    It''s reading my thoughts now?!


    "Yes Martin, I can see your thoughts and feel your emotions, please calm down."


    "Fuck off magic voice!"


    "Language Martin."


    "Fuck you!"


    I go back to my room to grab my shoes and nope out of here, this freaking apartment is haunted.


    "Sigh..."


    And suddenly I''m not in my apartment anymore.


    My mouth is a perfect "O" as I suddenly find myself in a world of pure white, and everything I see is white, everywhere I see is more white. If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.


    "Ugh I''m feeling dizzy."


    "Look at me Martin."


    A voice sounds behind me, I turn around with fear only to find a black sphere in the ground.


    "Hello Martin."


    "Uhh hello magic voice?"


    "I''m so glad that we can finally meet Martin."


    "Oh okay magic voice, nice to meet you too, but where are we? I''m pretty sure that I was in my apartment just a few moments ago."


    "I can tell you but first I need you to calm down Martin, my time with you is limited and I need you to remember well what I''m about to say"


    "Uhh okay fat ball, don''t worry about it! I have nerves of steel!"


    "I''m not fat."


    "What?"


    "Sigh, just touch me and you will see."


    Mmmm should I touch the weird fat ball? Everything seems to be sketchy as fuck.


    "Call me fat again and you will suffer untold agony."


    "Chill out magic voice, and you shouldn''t read the thoughts of other people like that! It''s rude."


    "Why did it have to be you..."


    "You are giving me a horrible first impression you know? You''re being very rude."


    "You died."


    "What?"


    What is this fat ball sayi....uh AHHHHHH WHAT THE FUCK AHHHHHH MY HEAD, FUCK I WAS WRONG IM SORRY IM SORRY.


    "Listen Martin and listen very closely because I will only say this once, understand?"


    I try to say something, but only a whimper comes from my mouth.


    "Sigh."


    Suddenly the pain is gone and I feel reinvigorated, I feel mighty, I feel so strong!! Oh dear God ! I''m going to!


    "Nope, stop right there."


    And it''s gone.


    "Woah, what the hell magic ball! I was so close! What weird BDSM game are you playing here? First pain then...then that?"


    "Martin you are being very difficult right now and my time with you is very limited, so please calm down and touch me."


    "Ohhhhhhhhhhh I see. If you wanted me to play like that, you just had to say so magic ball. Okay my safe word is pineapple pizza."


    "Pardon me?"


    "Hmmm since you are a ball I guess we could do that? I mean I''m not really into that, if anything I''m more into tentacles lately you see."


    "What?"


    "Oh don''t look at me like that, you see all of this started with Ben..."


    "ENOUGH."


    and the whole world rumbled and quaked.


    "YOU HAVE DIED MARTIN, DO YOU CARE NOT FOR YOUR OWN DEATH!?"


    "Fuck I know that died, I know! I''m scared and even feel like crying!!"


    At that the world stopped shaking.


    "Then why Martin? Why act like this?"


    "I...I don''t know, I was normal before, kinda, but for some reason now my mind just leaps from one thing to another and I just can''t control myself..."


    "And you weren''t like this before?"


    "No?"


    The magic ball suddenly starts to levitate and vibrate.


    "Could it be the information of the void you received? It shouldn''t be like this...I prepared the information in packets to avoid errors, his mind should be stable..."


    Okay weird. The magic ball is now muttering things while it paces back and forth.


    "Um I don''t know what you are talking about, but I didn''t receive any information?"


    "What? What do you mean Martin? Wait, no, shut up. I don''t have the time, I will check this myself."


    The magic ball suddenly accelerated and appeared in front of me, before I could react, my limbs locked down and the magic ball touched my forehead.


    ----


    It''s been a few hours yet I''m still in the same position. I should feel horrible, I should be having muscle cramps, but truth be told I don''t feel anything. No, more like I''m feeling at peace? Now that I''m calm, I think about what happened.


    I died.


    ...


    It''s really hard to process, but I died, I got shot and died in the bank. I can still feel that phantom pain, as if the bullet were still in my chest. It happened so fast, so quickly, I didn''t even realize that it happened. By the time that I was on the floor, I was already bleeding out and dying... I close my eyes and try to think of something else, if not, I feel like I will lose my mind.


    "I''m sorry Martin."


    "I''m sorry that it had to be like this."


    The magic ball vibrates and I can move again.


    "What...what did you do to me? I haven''t felt like this in months, I haven''t felt in control of my own thoughts for so long...."


    "Your soul was damaged Martin. something went wrong with the data transfer and from there everything spiraled out of control."


    "My soul was damaged? Not my mind?"


    "Everything is connected Martin. Your soul is connected to your mind, and your mind is connected to your body, and thus you came to be."


    "I''m sorry I don''t follow, but thanks for healing me magic ball."


    "Don''t be, it was my responsibility in the first place."


    "Still, thanks for that."


    "Hmm my time is running out and even I, with all my powers cannot keep you here any longer, it''s time to go Martin, my servant will explain the rest. Take care, Martin, and I''m sorry for the pain you had to suffer."


    Before I can reply the world starts to disintegrate, and the white is replaced with a black void. I can see stars in the distance and I realize that I''m floating in space. What?…This doesn''t make any sense.


    As I freak out, I see a red sun far off in the distance with little dots surrounding it. Are those? Are those planets?Even though I''m so far away the sun, it''s still gigantic, my mind fails to understand what''s happening.


    It''s...it''s too much, I can''t! My brain!! Ugh, How am I able to see this? I''m really floating in space? What''s going on!?!?!


    Before I can continue my train of thought, I see an outline of something behind the sun, as if something were holding the sun in its hands. That was the last thing I saw.