Drifting in a state of complete numbness, the prince opened his eyes. All around him, nothing but darkness. He wasn't standing, actually he wasn't sure he was at all. He could just know that wherever he was, it was dark, cold...he thought of it as afterlife...he felt disappointed, he always imagined it to be something else, he wasn't a believer but he still didn't imagine death to be this bland...in this deafening silence he heard a chuckle.
His entire being was intrigued, he turned on himself to look back, or so he thought to do. He couldn't feel his body or if he even got one. All he could do was tying to know where this chuckle came from. It had faded into oblivion. He thought that perhaps it was a trick of his mind trying to fill this silence. Yet, another chuckle made him turn again. It was so familiar yet he couldn't put a hand on whose voice it was.