"How are you liking your decision?"
The man's head wiped to the side to stare at the child sitting on the bench with him. They are sitting under a large willow tree, surrounded by flat land stretching out as far as the eye could see.
Birds chirped quietly, and the sky was a cloudless blue. The boy sitting beside him was dressed in golden silk robes and his feet swung, never once hitting the ground. Both his feet and hands had small holes through them but he gave no sign that it bothered him.
"What do you mean?"
"When you asked for another life. This was your body right?" the child was looking up at him now, a large smile stretched across his face.
Sure enough, when the man looked down the body he had was the same one he had died in the first time. "It is my body, but I don't understand what happened.
"I wanted to know what a human would do if they got another chance at life. It's awfully lonely up here when I'm the only one who can't return to the earth like all of you. Though I suppose Mama's here too, she tends to the gardens most of the time."
"Gardens?"
"Yeah. Eve, and Adams garden."
It suddenly it the man what had happened and tears began spilling from his eyes, "I have finally died. I've seen so many things I'd rather have never seen. It's worried what other places raise their children like."
The small boy the man now identified as God nodded, "Don't worry. You don't have to go back there anymore. You can stay here with me!"
Blinking in surprise the man stopped his crying, "What do you mean? Is there not a heaven or hell?"
"There is, but we can't visit hell and they can't visit us. Everyone comes here so I can judge them but they all leave eventually, and in times of war they seem to show up without pause."
"I can not help you though. I myself am a mortal."
Laughing the boy shook his head, "no you're not. You're the first person I granted the ability to live more lives! You can travel to earth and back whenever you want! Like an angel!" Grinning the boy stood and turned around to extend his hand to the man sitting on the bench, tears drying on his cheeks.
"I suppose it wouldn't be too bad to stay here then." he reached out and grabbed the boy's hand in his own standing up to stare down at the boy, before selling and letting out a loud laugh, "I was so foolish! What I wanted was not another life, but do not die without anyone missing me! I was afraid of being forgotten!"
"There has never been anything to be afraid of."
With that, the soul who had been stuck on repeat for several lives finally stopped and found a place he could settle down in.