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Layer 15: Rebirth
Have you ever woke up from
a dream, to find that something has changed while you had slept? Life can
be fleeting to us, weather we realize this or not. In the blink of an eye,
we can miss alot of what has gone on in the world.Even the wired itself
cannot compensate for lost time. Time is and always be as it has, an enigma...
Alice walked sluggishly toward the medical clinic. She was told to take it easy for the next day or so, and to see a doctor about her sudden fainting spells. Slowly and with a dazed look on her face, she made her way down the street. At one point, almost being hit by a car, followed by the usual shout, and the usual friendly gesture from the driver. Alice didn't pay much attention though, her mind was set on other things. A bell chimed as she walked through the door, as the assistant looked at Alice with a cold stare. She then fixed her glasses without making any further eye contact and said,
"The doctor will see you in a moment."
With that, Alice sat down
in the waiting room. Her thoughts compiled in her head like the piles of
trash would at a dump. Slowly growing, and making a horid stench she could
not ignore. Who was this "Lain"? And why would this bother her now? Why
couldn't it have just left her alone. Just then, Alice heard her name called
by the doctor, who stood by the door with a clipboard in hand. She walked
into the next room the same way she made her way to the clinic. Her mind
too jumbled to really make sense of anything. She sat down as the doctor
began to ask her random questions, which she barely answered with a straight
voice. After several moments, a gunshot was heard as both the doctor and
Alice jumped.
Some people believe that
humans just end when they die. Others believe in an afterlife or reincarnation,
the rebirth of a soul after death in another corporeal form. Humans have
relentlessly tried to seek the answers to life in their beliefs, but none
have ever come to a sure answer as to what really will happen. Most believe
that they are part of a plan, intertwined by fate. Unwraveling the misteries
of life and seeking our fate is the challenge we all have to face...
Alice awoke several minuets
later, dazed and confused. Her clothes stained in the blood of the doctor
and the assistant who lay next to her. As she realized this, a horrific
shriek of fear came from her mouth. Then a smaller, higher pitched shriek
was heard. A child, clinging to the bottom of her pant leg. She looked
only 3 or 4 months of age, wearing a pink coat and a tiny bear hat. The
girl was crying and shouing a shocking word. Alice began to cry, hugging
the child who continually shouted to her the same word.
"Mommy!"