'There was a time, when there was nothingness here. No trees, no grass, no angels, no humans. However, there was a little girl, named Arianna. She knew only nothingness, the one that surrounded her, and she felt no love or life in her. No friendship. So she decided to imagine herself a friend. A one that will resemble her. She did it and a little girl appeared.'

'What is your name?' Arianna asked the girl.

'Arianna.' The girl answered. 'And what's yours?'

'Arianna.'

'Hours, days, or months passed, and Arianna understood, that the girl she'd imagined was herself. She had a chance to know herself and see all those bad things and all those good things that lay deep inside in her heart untouched. However, Arianna got bored and annoyed. She wanted a friend that was different from her, that she could learn something new. Time passed, but Arianna and the girl did not change. There was no time in the world they lived in. though, her body was not changing, Arianna got smart and her imagination grew.'

'One day Arianna decided to make a world that could be a nice place for her and her friend. She imagined trees, grass, wind, sun, water and everything started to appear around her. But she didn't know that the girl she'd imagined was growing too. However, she turned opposite from her creator. Arianna was pure-hearted, brave and believing. She wanted to see beautiful things around her. And Emily, that's how Arianna's created girl called herself, saw the world in opposite. She wanted misery and fortune. And pain. When Arianna understood what was happening to her creation, it was too late. Emily created a world, called Agony. Arianna tried to stop her, but she could do nothing, just keep the world she had created safe. She called it Bliss.'

'Soon Emily got tired and gave up. She started to build her world, so one day it could destroy Arianna's. But still, Arianna was smarter. She created five stones. Garnet, Sapphire, Topaz, Emerald and Diamond. And she created a pair of human for every stone. She called them families and told them to have children and live happily, without misery. They did as they were told, and soon Bliss was full of happy people.'

'Emily saw what Arianna was doing, and thought that she was raising an army to destroy her world. Therefore, she created a stone, called moonstone, and a pair of humans. She told them, that pain was the good thing, and that they have to have children.'

'As we all know, evil is spreading quicker than good, and Agony was filled with misery soon. Arianna wanted to keep her humans safe, but somehow Emily made some of them Moonstone carriers. They were spreading the word of pain and disseminate panic among the gemstone carriers.'

'Arianna decided to create a world, together with Emily, that they could live together in harmony. They called it Earth and sent some people to live there. They erased their memories and took away their gemstones. They were a completely new kind. They knew good and evil and they could choose sides. Finally, Bliss and Agony could live in peace with each other.'

'But they got into a fight, when people started to die in earth. They had souls, so they had to go to another world, either Bliss or Agony. Arianna wanted to take the good souls to Bliss, and give the bad souls to Emily. She said yes, and the problem was solved.'

'However, too many people in the earth were too good for Agony, and too bad for Bliss. Arianna decided that the only way to solve this problem is to give them something to believe. The humans got Bible and called Arianna the God and Emily the devil. Emily got mad, when people started fearing her and prayed to Arianna to save them from the Devil. She suggested Arianna, to give the gemstones and the moonstone back to some of the people, to pass them from generation to generation. The ones that will have a gemstone will live in Bliss, and who will have the moonstone will live in Agony. There were only few families left that were not mixed with other families, so Arianna and Emily gave them back the stones. They passed it from generation to generation, and when you pass away, you know where you will be. Others are judged, the ones that do not have a gemstone in their family.'

'Arianna gave us wings and called us angels. Emily gave her souls knives and called them sinners. And we live like that for a long time now, though we never change. We only change in earth. And we are happy with our lives. Well, most of us. Nothing is going to change in the future. Time doesn't exist here.'

I sat silent through the entire story. I understood it and wondered, are Arianna and Emily are still little girls. I imagined them as five-year-olds with little pretty dresses and teddy bears in their hands. Evil and good. Twins.

'Am I dead?' I asked again.

'No, you are not if you don't want to be. But you will have to go a long way if you want to get back to Earth, Ana.' James whispered.

He was still holding my hands.

'I have to go back.'

'Then you will have to ask Arianna for a permission to come back there.'

'Where is she?' I asked. My voice was colored with fear.

'Nobody knows. However, she is here, in Bliss.' James was deep in his thoughts.

'Will you help me to find her?' I asked him, completely sure that he will say no.

'Of course. Who knows, maybe she will let me come with you.' He smiled a dazzling smile.

'You want to come back to Earth? I thought you like to be an angel.' I was surprised.

'Just reminding, that you are an angel too now, Ana. And I just don't want to let you go.'

'James, you would do that for me?' I thought I will start crying.

'Not would. I will.' He smiled.

And we walked into nothingness, searching for something we imagined as a way to happiness.