Where Have I Been?

Malachi didn't know how long he had been gone.

Or even where he went.

He simply floated within an endless chaotic space of which he was unable to process even with his immortal mind.

He felt like someone was speaking to him while he was out and touching him while he had no control over his body.

He thought it may have been a woman… but he truly wasn't sure.

He felt like it asked him questions.

About what he wanted from life in the future, and exactly how he wanted to be seen.

But he couldn't remember his answers either.

The things that he saw and experienced within that domain would be forever locked away to him.

In the end, the only thing he could remember was a name that he'd heard only once before.

It was the very same name he heard his mother yell in that argument with the gods that had taken place only a mere moment ago. 

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"Get him out! Let's see if he's gotten anything on him!"