(A/n) It is late. I am tired. I have suffered 8 days of Kosher foods. I had to rake through #54 just to get this info (NOT something I liked doing.) The only button that should be pushed is the review button. 'Nuff said.

The Remembrance Rachel

I wondered if…

"Rachel?" The Ellimist asked. I didn't want to answer him. But I wanted to hold onto every last bit of time I had to be alive. To think. To remember. So I answered. "What?"

            "You know, there is another way."

 "Another way for what?"

 "You don't have to die," the Ellimist replied.

"What are you talking about?" What was he playing at?

"Rather than die, you will be… reincarnated."

This caught me off guard. "Reincarnated? As what? Where?"

"Allow me to explain. You will be reincarnated as yourself, in your old body."

Would this get me to Tobias? To the others? "There's a catch, isn't there?"

"You know me too well," the Ellimist replied with a smile in his tone. "Yes. You won't be going back to your own time. It is already two and a half years since you died."

Two and a half years? It must have been at least two minutes here. "Go on," I prompted.

"Rather, you will be going a thousand years into the future. The human race has changed by much. Allow me to show you." And in an instant, I could "see" the world a thousand years later.

"As you see, Andalites are living on Earth. The world is such that portions of it are Andalite land and others are human land." I saw the land was patched up like a crazed jigsaw puzzler put it together. The grass was the old green I knew, but there was also brighter green, and blue. Trees varied from ones I knew to ones I've only seen on Ax's Dome ship.

The Ellimist continued, "Technology has advanced by far, when Andalites and humans worked together and combined knowledge. Other things have changed, but I can't explain them to you yet.

"It is your choice. You can be reincarnated. You will still be known as "Rachel", but not as the Animorph. You will have a family, but not your old family. Or you can choose to stay here, and to truly die. Like I said, it's up to you, and you alone."

I thought. I wanted to live. More than anything. But I doubted beyond anything that Tobias would be there. Or Jake. Or any of the others. Then again, any life is better than none.

The Ellimist knew my decision before I spoke. And with a flash and a swirl of the space around me, I was falling… falling into deep blackness.

(A/n) -_- zzzzzzzzzzzzz…