I'm confused, scared and feeling other feelings of emptiness that I've never felt before, all at the same time.
I'm dead, killed, but... how am I there then? Can I visit my parents as a ghost? Can I do the same with my friends? Can I still go around the Earth and visit places? Or am I stuck inside Tiara? The idea is scary, but... it looks like so. I turn around to Filiberto, hoping that he will help me and/or will answer to all my questions.
"Filiberto?"
"Yes, oh dear cousin?" He asks, turning his bleeding chest around with a swish of his golden coat. I fiddle my figners around a bit, then I take my courage with two hands, and ask "I-is there any way t-to come back to mom and dad?"
As Diamond Tiara put her left hoof on her face and groans, Filiberto sighs as he lowers his head and says "You may pay them a visit when their eyes will rest closed and their minds will be relieved shortly from the worries of the day." He rises his index of his left hand "However, roaming the Earth is not possible for the pious and unchosen dead like you, as only the souls of the truly wicked and the punished can do so, and only if a priest of angra mainyu," he lets out a snarl and spits on the black ground "with the sacrifice of his blood upon a fire sparked with a torch and burning bodily wastes and pieces of corpses, decides to summon them to do their bidding for an amount of time that does not go beyond two sunrises."
I look sideways at my cousin. This is so complicated!
"I-I don't get it, Filiberto... do I get to visit people?" I say, nearly trembling, so he says "No, you cannot do so, for you have yet to be fully judged by Madza, the Most Rightful Judge and yazad, and need to be freed from this body first."
I look puzzled at my cousin, still not getting it all. I mean, am I dead, not dead, in Limbo, in Hell, or what? It's all so confusing... I decide to ask "I-I'm lost..."
"In a handful of simple terms, you are dead indeed, but you have yet to join the Afterlife fully, as your judgment has been halted. For join it, you shall leave this body as soon as the opportunity offers itself to you."
I nod, still not completely understanding but still understanding a little more than before. "When?" I ask.
Filiberto creates a small glowing silvery scroll from nowhere, letting it float a bit in the air, then grabs it and unrolls it in his hands, saying "The opportunity, oh my dear young cousin Luisa, starts from tomorrow and it shall last until the Moon will have done its cycle in the sky once, for the Afterlife has gotten more near to this world, allowing an easier liberation of souls trapped inside objects, beasts and men, without destroying the host. While it is possible to do so in other times, it may require so much effort in doing so, that it may end with the soul of the one that gives aid begin snuffed out of him in the attempt to recover the soul of the trapped deceased one, and so it is advisable to try now, rather than wait."
Apparently, I can join my granpas, my cousin and all the others only if I do it in a month. Good or bad? I don't know, to be honest. Filiberto then said "For ensure that you will get access to Heaven right away without the need to be purified in Hell," I shiver a little at the mention.
Going to Hell? But why? I don't dare asking why until he stops talking, thought "You will need to adhere to these Principles: Do not Obstacle or Harm your host in any way, shape or form, and do not Act or Speak in ways that go completely against your Host's principles. Be most kind and generous whenever the opportunity is presented. Respect the Fire presided by Asha Vahishta; the Water, dominion of Haurvatat; and the Earth, abode of Spenta Armaiti. Contract marriages or have intimate contacts with your host's next-to-kins."
I look sideways AGAIN. This time, thought, I don't have to ask, as he says "This means that, in order to succeed, you must contact the here present Diamond Tiara's cousins, and betroth them, or, otherwise, kiss them in the mouth."
I stick my tongue out, saying "Eeeeww" at the thought of kissing a boy in the mouth. "That's gross!" I say.
"Ahura Madza requires to have full sexual relationships with next-to-kins, if the marriage with them never comes or is contracted with unrelated people. However, I think that my Lord, Most Straight, Most Just and All-Embracing Goodness, will be more than understanding if you do not have done it, for you are a fragile child, a category that men, under His influence, have deemed too fragile for attend to that duty."
"Next-to-kins?" I ask and Tiara says really fast "Like cousins, brothers, fathers..."
I sigh. So, I had to kiss Diamodn Tiara's boy cousins in the mouth and I have to stay silent and still as she does whatever she wants to get in Heaven. That's not fair! Why do I always have to act nice all the time? And why should I kiss a boy? Should be the opposite...
But I don't say anything, only moaning and stomping my feet a little at the thought of obey. With this done, Filiberot says "I have to leave this place now," his body started to undo itself in threads of pure light "Goodbye cousin, see you soon in Paradise." I wave at him, and so does Diamond Tiara. Then we wake up.
"Okay, now I understand it all." Diamond Tiara says s she stretches our front hooves and jumps down the couch where we slept "We need to find a strong magic user, and, while we look for him, you have to obey me and my orders."
I sigh and nod, as she moves us to the dinign room. It's true that I need to follow the rules and play nice for get with my cousin, but... it's still annoying.
So, the alien in my head was supposed to stay put and silent for the most part, least it/she was forced into Hell? Neat!
Sure, the clause that for get rid of her I had to screw or marry one of my close relatives bothered me, but, to be honest, it was up to me to decide if I wanted to send her to Hell because I didn't have sex with a close relative, not her. I was going to do that only if Luisa behaved.
Anyway, once I woke up, I got up and, hearing my stomach growling, I went in the dinign room.
There, as my servants brought in colorful bowls full of pea cream, black bread, salad and all of that, my father and mother sat down. My mother, as per her annoying usual, asked me "Honey, did you have a good day at school?"
"Yes. Nothing happened." I replied, and, without error, Luisa nagged me with "Hey! That's not true! something happened!" making me groan.
"Nothing actually happened. Now stop, or you may go to Hell for contradicting me." I replied to it/she, who let out a whimper, before answring offended.
"That's now what he said! He said I couldn't say or make oyu do anythign that goes agaisnt what you believe in!" It/she said, makign me groan again.
Meanwhile, my mother said "Oh, okay" and went on to serve herself with some salad instead. My father, as per his usual, mixed the cream with salad without any apparent reason.
"I believe in silence at the table, okay?" I said, making the dead alien in my head huff.
"Sure that for begin one claiming to like 'simple cuisine' he eats lots of unusual and elaborate foodstuffs," I think, to which Luisa, of course, answers.
"Well, tastes are tastes, aren't they? 'sides, why do you care?" She/it said with a tone of voice that made me wish I could have gone inside my head to beat her into submission.
I speak up, as I take another forkful of my food, while my parents are busy eating some more in silence "I care because he is my father and he doesn't seem to act like he says he does."
Luisa huffed again and then silenced herself, allowing me to enjoy my meal in peace.
When I had finished my lunch quickly and silently, I went back to my room for do my duties that school assigned me for home.
"Now you can talk," I say, extracting the books "as I need help with my homework and I think that your small mind may have some abouts of genius that can become useful for me."
She sighed, saying "Guess I'll obey..."
"Good." I said, as I took up the pen and my excercise book and brought them in front of me.