I stood there, stunned, looking over my lifeless and broken body on the floor of the cave as it looked up, unaware, at the hole it had fallen through only hours before. Only, as my rational thoughts took hold again, I realized that my dead body was not wrapped in bandages as I was. "What the hell?" I asked.
"Get back in." came a voice.
I turned around to find yet another surprise, I was facing my late grandmother, Grace! "Impossible." I said softly. "You died over ten years ago!"
Grace nodded. "You died a few hours ago, hence you can see." she said, her voice echoing slightly. "I bandaged you up with medical supplies from this realm, the doorway to the next life. "I am the imaginary friend to a little girl somewhere." she giggled. "But to the point, you need to get back to your body before the ties between your soul and your body completely sever and you are forced to join me."
"How do I do that?" I asked. "I've never been... dead before."
Grace laughed. "You are one of the rare few who will experience it twice, Jon." she said. "However, as I have mended the ties that bind your soul to your body, you will soon be able to become a ghost at will and return to the living when you are ready to join them again."
I swallowed hard and tried to ask Grace for more answers but she lightly placed a finger onto my lips. "We will have plenty of time to talk later." she said. "Just lay down and line up your body with that one on the ground. Your body will do the rest and you will wake up. Good luck, Jon."
With that, Grace vanished from sight and I quickly placed myself against my dead body, placing myself in the same position, as I was told. I did not have long to wait as I felt myself being pulled into the other body and I again blacked out. It was hours later when I woke up, this time to find myself...
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