In the Void

Hansen saw his uncle Sloan shooting at him with a revolver and the next second what he saw was only darkness. He knew he was dead and he felt his consciousness was fading away and then he slept but still his mind was not calm and he could not die and sleep properly since he knew he could not find his parents and rescue them. Since the time his most beloved person who was his mom and dad was missing he did not have proper sleep.

Though he was able to return back to his home which was a luxurious mansion with all kinds of facilities, still he was unable to sleep. Because sleep only comes when one is happy and content and is in a relaxed state of mind. However, the place where you live or how much wealth you have does not determine how much happiness you have. Yes money can buy you things but it cannot buy happiness.

Since the time he returned from that jungle safari without his parents, his mind was in a state of chaos and a storm was always brewing in his mind because he just wanted to take revenge on the people who had kidnapped his parents, nothing else mattered to him. He could give up all the wealth in the world and just wanted to find the culprits and rescue his mom and dad as quickly as possible.

But now it seems that it is already too late to take revenge and he will not be able to fulfill his last wish to save his parents. He did not know where his parents were and could not save them. Forget about finding he did not know whether they were still alive or not. Perhaps they are already dead and do not need any saving at this time still he wanted to find them out but he was helpless.

He felt guilty that his parents were kidnapped but he returned home safe. He was not at all being a good son. So he was very frustrated with himself and now that he was dead he would not be able to take his revenge.

He could only see darkness around him and all kinds of thoughts flashed across his mind as he kept thinking about his parents only. After a long time, Hansen still felt and realized that he was able to think properly so he was a bit confused as he did not know if this was supposed to happen after death. 

Hansen did not know how much time had passed. But he could feel that he could still open and close his eyes, however he could not see anything since all was black he also felt his body and could move his hands and feet and realized that his body was still intact however he was in a pitch black darkness. He could not differentiate between opening and closing of the eyes since both felt the same and he felt as if his body was floating.

He moved his hands and feet but could not feel anything and just the feeling of floating in the nothingness prevailed over his senses. He did not know what to do as he started panicking because he did not know how much time had passed since the time he was dead. There was no sense of time in this place; he felt like it could be just a few minutes ago or it could be a few years or perhaps millions of years. Nothing or nobody was there to clarify his doubt about exactly what this place is and how to get out of it.

Was he supposed to be trapped in this place forever? Was he actually dead or still alive? or was he in some kind of a crazy dream he did not know? So what was he supposed to do or what could he do?

After an unknown amount of time, he felt there was some change in his situation. But he could not put his finger on exactly what had changed now so he could only wonder and look around and he could only see pitch black darkness nothing else so he did not know however he felt something was gradually changing in the atmosphere he was in then after some time he felt as if the space he was in were slowly and slowly moving backward or was the one moving was actually him who was moving forward and not the space moving backward.

After some time he felt his speed was increasing gradually however all he could see was only darkness nothing else. But as the time passed he saw that there was some faint glow coming from somewhere and it seemed the darkness was going away and he felt like his speed was increasing it seemed.

Then he could see there were bright stars which were shooting towards himself as he realized that he was actually moving at a very frightening speed and was not at all idle in the space. Obviously, he could not do anything about this since he did not have any control over it at all so he could only wait and brace himself for what was coming next since he had to take it anyways whether it was good or bad.

Then he saw apart from the bright little stars which were passing by him there was one star which was ahead of him and looked to be the bigger one among them was shooting towards him and before he could think about it the star was in front of him and he clashed with it and then the world became white. 

There was so much light that he could not open his eyes properly and could only see light everywhere. Then he could hear somebody speak from the light.

The Light: "You have got the opportunity to live a second life. Would you choose to go back to your world and live your life again or would you like to go to another dimension with us?"

Hansen was confused as he asked: "Who are you? I do not know what you are talking about."

The Light said: "I am just a higher being from a different dimension. You have been given the choices. Just choose one of these."

Hansen thought about it and it all seemed very surreal but he could not see any harm in choosing one of the choices which were given to him. Of course he wanted to live in this world again since he wanted to save his parents and take his revenge but now that he was given a chance he will take it.

Hansen said: "I want to live in this world again."

The Light said: "Your choice is granted." and then there was a flash and everything went black.