001 / MC dies.
A Deadly Virus spread through the lands and took away millions with it, I was an unfortunate one of them. I was a professional Chess player and a Lawyer in my previous life or first life as I am calling it now. In my last fortnight alive I sorted out my affairs and re-read my favorite books. I had time for once in many years but no energy to move around.
I spent my last days on my laptop talking to my family, relatives, and friends as I was in another country with a travel Forbidden and couldn't visit them in my home country. I didn't tell them about my impending death but I could see my aged mother getting an inkling of what was happening, just signed everything I had to them after I paid my hospital bills and my cremation cost as well. In the last days of my life, I couldn't sleep, I mostly passed away when my body felt too tired. I was in a quarantined hotel room with room service and medical staff on call, I declined to die in hospital and rented a nice room for myself. Rich people were asked to pay as most people couldn't afford and the government was struggling. Well, I was in some African country while dying, doing a mini chess tour, and struck there. Still, even the slow connection in internet made it possible to sort out my affairs easily. I read and reread the Harry Potter series and wiki and Pottermore and fanfictions to pass time. I didn't want to start something new and the harry potter series was what I grew up with. My love for it never dulled or faded, I was not a particularly nice person, the most I related to in the series was Albus too many names Dumbledore and he was as manipulative as they came. I was particularly fascinated by all the magic done in books. I didn't waste my time watching movies, I loved them in childhood but adulthood came with a whole new perspective and I just didn't felt movies magical enough. I dreamed of what I would do if I had magic and power. How would I change the world, I slept on my last day dreaming that.
At just 29 years old. I closed my eyes for the last time on 03/07/2019. I know I was too young to pass away but it was what it was. Unmarried and childless and just plain old me accepting death with open arms because there was nothing to be done about it.
I was floating in what felt like a void, it was similar to my experience in a swimming pool. My senses didn't work and I wasn't even able to panic as for panicking one needs some sort of body or something. Something. Time stopped making any sense to me. I was only able to think in small sentences in this void. Slowly void started contracting but I still didn't have anything to control.
After more time passed, voices that were not in my head started making sense, lots of humming and odd sounds. It made me think I could only hear something if I have ears and I could only think if I had a brain. So not so much of a void then. The bubble around me as I referred to it as I still cannot see started contracting. At one point I started feeling that void would burst out and one day, I assume it's a day I was reborn, I was dunked under what felt like chilly water and I felt my tongue and mouth for the first time in ages.
I screamed, it was instinctive and I heard something like glass burst. I couldn't open my eyes but I felt a human touch on my body and yes it was my body, but the touch felt like it was covering my whole body.
Rebirth or something similar, but was I the same as before or someone new? Or someone I knew? And when and where I was? Was I in plain old Britain or some exotic country or future? Like I died in 2019, was I in 2021 somewhere? I wanted answers but sweet sleep called me in her arms.