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'Stifling' is the word that comes to mind.
Lucas couldn't breath and it felt like an eternity.
No, scratch that. He couldn't comprehend time. What was this place? But there was no answer.
What's happening? It feels like an empty place full of nothingness.
Well then. It wouldn't be empty, would it? Lucas could answer that question. It was rhetorical anyway, genius.
Could this be the afterlife? Still there was no answer. Lucas again remembered that feeling that there was no time. He could have been here (wherever here was) for three seconds or three millennia. He felt somehow that time wasn't even a concept anymore. It had no meaning and no use in Here.
He was overcome by a sudden need. However long he had been in this place, it was too long. He missed his reality. His reality, he thought, because one's perception of the universe is what makes one's universe. Everyone's reality is one's own. So there is no 'one' or 'right' reality.
Lucas remembered he read that in a book. He wished he could remember what book, or how long ago it was that he read it.
OK. So if his perception is what makes his reality, then all he has to do is change his perception to get out of this place.
In his new place, Lucas imagined squeezing his eyes shut, mocking concentration.
Frustrated and bewildered at his failed perception-changing experiment, he imagined opening he eyes.
Hmm. OK, say that, hypothetically: Lucas is dead. This is the afterlife. Lucas believes that when one dies, one goes wherever one thinks one will go.
Where did Lucas think he would go? Lucas imagined a clock ticking next to this ear as he thought hard.
Now it's the jeopardy theme.
But he can't remember!
'Shit' is the word that comes to mind now. What if this is what he believed? Big. Fat. Empty. Nothingness. Damn. If that's what he thought, then going on the assumption that reincarnation exists: Lucas Wolenczak will be reincarnated into a person with the ability to travel backward in time. He will travel back to the year 2016.
There, in that time, Lucas Wolenczak will tell himself that there is something besides big, fat, empty, nothingness. Whatever that something is that will be in the stead of Here, Lucas will tell Lucas that will be Lucas' decision.
Unless. Reincarnation works backwards, like Time, it's in a loop.
Then he doesn't know what he'll do.
Hold on a second, GENIUS. It won't matter then! He'll just have to wait until he gets reincarnated again, and he'll believe in "something" in the afterlife. Duh, Wolenczak, how could anyone be such an idiot?
Lucas laughed.
He laughed the laugh someone who always laughs the last laugh…laughs. Yes, Lucas, that was way too many 'laughs'.
Well maybe you should just stop narrating yourself when you don't even have a body. Hmm?
Now all Lucas has to do is wait to get reincarnated.
The jeopardy theme should be starting up again any time now.
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Believe it or not: that's not the end. This does actually end up having some sort of plot.
Shall I reveal what it is? Or will this indeed be the end? Feedback will only tell.
Keyword hint: "feedback."
And yeah, I did notice this is rediculous. So sue me.