Chapter 1: Concepts of Death
I woke up to what seemed to be the next day, how am I supposed to tell whether or not if I’m sleeping or just dead. Luna approached me as I pondered about how the mechanics of death worked, it was one confusing state.
“It’s time.” I turned to see Luna who of which had already turned around, and trotted off in the other direction. I followed behind her assuming she was escorting me to the dream world through what ever this realm was.
“Where are we going, I assume to meet my family inside of a dream, but I never knew that being dead I would have to travel so much.”
“We are currently waiting for your brother to fall asleep, did you not know that we still have to wait the same amount of time they have to wait in their lively realm.” I never really thought about it that way, it’s very interesting in a form known as death, but still have to wait time periods for things to happen.
Mid-thought I was transported into a dark room where I saw myself lying down on my death bed as my brother reached up onto the bed crying waiting for me to wake up, as if it were a joke. I couldn’t tell if this was a memory, or a dream. My brother still sat there crying his eyes out as I approached him.
“Hey kid.” His head snapped to me in an instant, his eyes dried up as he jumped at my ghostly apparition, and fell to the ground. He then continued to sob at the fact that I was gone.
“Don’t cry, I’m only here to make you happy, not to mourn me.”
It was very odd to think about this sort of situation. I’ve never had to deal with somepony dieing, especially with my family. It seemed as if he was happy, but he just continued to cry, I had no idea what was wrong. I could kind of understand the difficulty of living without myself, but the burden of not seeing my family again in an actual form made it harder for me to be there to see him curl up into a ball and cry. When I was around my family I always felt the warmth of the love swarm around the room, when the family went traveling, and left me at home it always felt very cold and dull. I don’t understand this very much, but I always knew that it was my family that brought the heat to my life otherwise my life was very cold and I didn’t want to leave that behind.
I approached the ball on the ground that I had known to be my brother, speechless I picked him up off the ground and set him on the nearby bed dreamed into existence. All he need was some of his own time, some time to think over the situation.
I turned to my body lying on the hospital bed, and tried to think it out of the realm, but it seemed that the mechanics of dreaming were more complex than simple dream morphing magic from the realm of the living. I had to try to get a handle on what was being presented before my eyes. Before I could go further into attempting to change the dream around me, the walls fell revealing princess Luna starring in surprise at how apprehensive I was to these new forces of magic shown to me.