The End

Alex opened his eyes inside his capsule. He could see some lights around him, he could hear himself moving, feel the softness beneath him. 

'I logged out?' he thought with a solemn expression on his face. The memory of the sea was still clear in his mind. 'Did I die?'

He tried to log back in. Instead of going back to his body in the game, or the other world as he had come to believe, he got a single message in his ears.

<You have died>

<Would you like to restart with a new body?>

Alex sighed. "I really did die, huh?" he said softly. He didn't want to make any such decisions at the moment, so he declined the capsule's offer. 

He opened the lid and walked out. 

Suddenly, he felt a wave of nausea and hunger hit him as he nearly stumbled onto the ground. 

His stomach cried really loudly. "What's—" he remembered that he hadn't eaten anything in nearly 3 days now due to the events of the game.