I was dead.
It doesn't matter, who I was, how I died, or even where I was now.
I just was dead.
That was not as hard, harsh or horrible as someone can think – in the end, there is no horned red-skinned satanic creatures, there is no white clouds with beautiful angels, there is no Abyss too. When I died – there was no one. No God, no Devil, no Odin or Pluton. And for the sake of humanity – even the relaxation was not an option.
I died – and the moment after that happened - I opened my eyes again. Some sort of the fate's joke, I assume.
When I opened my eyes again – I was not aware about anything. I didn't know about the circumstances around, about my previous life, about my name even. What I know was that I was dead a second ago – and now I was not.
And if this was the worlds joke – there is no word that can even remotely describe how awful it was.
Because, when I opened my eyes again – I was faced by some sort of disgusting creature, something between the hog and the lizard. It face was scowled in some sort of the painful yet angry grimace, it legs was muscular, but nonetheless short, it body was massive and sturdy, scaled in some sort of the white bones. And although this monstery-thing didn't look dangerous and was approximately only around 70cm in height, it looked very… Nerving, when you faced with it without any previous premise.
Of course, instinctively I recoiled from this thing, but some strange feeling in my arms and legs compel me to fall on my knees, luckily, this strange boar-lizard thing repeated all my actions with the mirror accuracy.
After the first second of the confusion, my first reaction was to run – or fight this thing, so I tried to stand up again, but for some reason – again, the scene repeated and I was forced to fall on my knees.
Nevertheless, what was even stranger for me – that boar-like animal again repeated my movements with absolute preciseness, as if trying to copy me like the mirror.
-Wait!- my mind shouted inside, and I stoped again – only to look at the creature in front of me. Creature stoped too.
-Oh no,- I hold my breath unconsciously, before I tried to raise a hand from my posture.
The ugly creature before me tried to raise on of his forepaws.
Incredulously, I tried to jump – and boar-lizard jumped before me.
Slowly, I moved my glance away from this creature – and tried to look around, to see anything or anyone around – but I found only the sheer wilderness, full of nothing and red dry clay-like dirt under my feet. No grass, no trees and no sign of humans around.
I moved my gaze more – and finally, looked at my own body.
-Yap,- I tried to say it loud and proud, but in the end could only growl something inarticulate. As it was expected – this disgusting creature was me all along.
If there is God in this world – he surely hate me. A lot.