Nicholas Schembri

The fear that possessed his eyes with such claim, suddenly melted away with his body as he escaped into the next world. Slivers of reality slipped in and out of his field of view as he moved into the other realm. He encountered a group who welcomed him home with looks of intense pride in their smiles. He was not confused about any of this; he knew exactly what was happening.

He had been here before, many times before. Feelings of understanding swept over him that he had never experienced in the old world. A sense of eternity and immortality rattled him as it became obvious that he had been living a lot longer then he ever knew. He was in this place that he was constantly visiting between lives, this place that he had visited so many times before. He asked, “who am I?”

The answer he heard back, wasn't exactly something he heard with his ears, nor was it in a language from the previous world (at least not just one language). The response he heard started slowly as his name was spoken to him in every earthly language. They continued to say his name until all of the languages became intertwined to the point where they turned into one pure tone, one pure language.

He heard his name in this pure tone and it filled his body with such force that it propelled him out of this place at a speed not known to man. He moved through space and time by this force until he finally slowed down and started to forget what was happening. Those feelings of understanding and eternity were quickly slipping away like grains of sand through his fingers. While he tried his best to grasp onto the truth that he had known only moments before, he became transfixed on a white light that had suddenly appeared in his field of view.

He moved toward that light without any control, and he started to weep as the memory of his previous life was ripped from his mind. His crying began to transform from the weeping of a man, to the screaming of a baby. The bright white light engulfed him and suddenly changed into a room filled with unfamiliar faces and medical equipment. He saw a man look down at him and smile, while the voices of women giggled and awed in the background. He felt fingers stretch the entire size of his back and lift him into the air. He looked up at the man who was lifting him and heard him say, "he's a boy, and his name is Nicholas".