The Trial of the Possibilities (I)

Suddenly I recovered consciousness and took a deep breath, it was like I was without air for many minutes. My head was spinning around while my senses were adapting to this new scenario. When I got my sight back I was astonished with what I found in front on my eyes.

The ground where I'm is like a puddle of low deep that expands until the horizon ends, after stepping it doesn't produce any kind of splash no matter how much hard I try it. In the distance there are a couple of big columns of stone of rectangular form one at each side. Little islands were floating in a pink colour sky receiving water from a waterfall that goes up instead of down. I can't see a sun or any source of natural light but still all the scenery is illuminated with grey tones.

Where the hell I'm? What kind of place is this? What happened to the building I was in? There is no way that this can be my world... right? I'm the only person here, I barely hear a sound familiar to waves hitting the beach shore.

I confirmed that my body was still normal, the wounds from my last fight were intact although I don't feel any pain and I could move my arms and legs without any effort.

Maybe I died and this is some sort of limbo? After I pinched my cheek nothing made me feel different. Perhaps I'm raving inside my mind.

"Is anyone out there!?"

My voice echoed for a few seconds until it stopped, it seems there is no one else.

With many questions I decided to start walking in search of any clue that tells me of my current whereabouts, starting from those columns on the distance.

There isn't any special on them, they're just stone structures erected on high separated by 2 meters. However after investigating in detail I noticed that something was different in the space where they are separated, revealing a mirage that couldn't be seen other way.

Crossing that cleft it was revealed in front of me a tall mountain conformed by many blocks of stone and marble, a cave on the base was clearly an entrance.

When I entered everything was dark, the only thing that seemed to produce a slight shine were stone stairs. I started to doubt if it's better to desist, although I have already come so far to try find an alternative route.

As I was climbing the scenery was lighting up slowly and revealed what appears to be a construction, like some old house or a medieval castle.

Reaching the top I could saw a red carpet already deteriorated by the pass of time, ending up in a square wooden table with two chairs. The one on the left was empty, on the one on the right however was sitting a skeleton of a humanoid being with a long cloak that covered from his shoulders to his feet. His skull is different of a normal person, he also must be taller that the average human, perhaps 3 meters tall.

He seemed to have being playing some kind of game, their were figures and a board on the table. I got close to watch it carefully.

"What you seek?"

"Ahhh!"

A voice came out of nowhere and scared me making me trip over. It came from the corpse.

"Is power? Is wealth? Want to gather? Or want to separate?" he asked.

Then it started to float moving away from his seat and next he lead his presence to me. It's colour vanished bit by bit until only a gray shadow was left. I stood up against that bizarre spectacle trying to comprehend his form, however no matter how much I tried it was impossible. Is the colour abandoning my eyes?

After clearing my throat I was ready to answer.