Authors note: This is just something that popped into my head. I have ideas as to where it could lead, but at the moment, nothing . Tell me what you think.

You just lost the game.

Reincarnation. We never once considered it. Nor did we ever consider what lay beyond our small world of shadows, and unfulfilled life. Desire to escape, consumed us, but not once considered what lay beyond. Of all the passing imaginings of what lay past eternity, reincarnation had not been a notion of I going to become some bug, like in Buddhist tradition? I'd already gotten my second chance at life, with the SSS.

Nor did I imagine that heaven would look anything like this. If this was heaven.

It was empty, besides the ornate, golden and jewel encrusted chair occupying space. My body floats in front of the chair, and I eye the one who occupies the throne warily.

Am I finally, staring face to face with god?