"026." there came a whisper in the dark room where her body laid asleep.
No sign of life can be found in her.
I took a deep breath and summoned the Flares, calling their names one by one.
...
"Is the coast clear?" no traces of the Dark Flare, they may proceed with the final step now.
I closed my eyes to avoid the immense light.
The room turned from a dark gloomy ambience to bright and colorful with the vibrance of their presence filling up the space.
I still hadn't opened my eyes but I could tell what was going on using my other senses.
I could feel the Flares move through the objects and reshape our reality, taking Honey's body from the bed.
The feeling was out of this world as if I wasn't on Earth anymore, and indeed, that was the case.
"You may look now." they allowed me to open my eyes and roam around as I wanted.
It has been a while since I've come here.
The last time was certainly back in the '90s when 026 suffered from a lung disease.
That life of hers was both my favorite and first attempt to escape all of this.
"Do you wish to continue, 048?" I thought about it for a long time as I stayed in this realm.
A realm they would call the Remake.
This is where all the transferring, transforming, and incarnating happens.
My body was left back in the room, only the consciousness of human beings are brought here.
I don't know what happened by then.
Once they retrieved her soul, all the people and structures in that story would still prolong on its own... As long as there are no more faults in that universe.
I hope...
"Do not go in there." restrictions were given to me here and there.
On Earth, it should be about a year since time has passed when I vanished from that timeline.
I glimpsed at the globes floating around me, each time that 026 has been reincarnated, and every failure to achieve our goal.
"Is that supposed to happen?" I pointed at the scene that played in front of me.
"Those are called faults." they explained to me how the Dark Flare caused all sorts of collisions in these different timelines.
Where two or more of 026 are reborn in the same world and time, it shouldn't happen though.
"Your memories are still incomplete." they were very concerned about this matter.
I should be able to recollect all past or future events and identities I have lived and will live with. There is something not adding up to me.
"That only means one thing, a redo must be done." without any context, they asked me to prepare in rewriting Honey's Life.
Rewriting is what we call a failed life that will be entirely rewritten in order to get rid of the faults made by the Dark Flare.
After everything we went through in this life, I never expected that it would just be rewritten as if it was nothing.
Must I really go on with this?
"If you refuse to go on, you will become pathless the moment we let you go."
I know that for sure...
I would become what people would call a lost cause.
That would put all my worth into the abyss, I'd become like someone whom they refuse to mention...
"Do you wish to continue and have purpose?" I agreed without thinking it through anymore.
What else can I do? This is my punishment for the sins I've made back then.
What's the plan?
"To redo, rewrite and remake a life."