Wuuuuuuuuu!
"...Wow... what are... those?"
A low hum continuously sounded in the endless void as Alex gazed upon nine similar orbs just like the one he held in hands.
They benevolently hovered over him in an ovular pattern and a continuous hum that could calm one's very soul.
Alex gazed and wondered upon them as he squinted his eyes and keenly observed them.
Of the orbs that were a float, two were a soft silver color, four were a deep obsidian night and three were just like the one held in his hands.
The obsidian night, soft silver and the pale-yellow orbs were streaked and laced in the same floral patterns as the ones of the orb in his hand.
The indifference between them was that patterns on each orb group was distinct in color. Meaning that the obsidian night orbs had floral patterns in a pale-yellow color, the pale-yellow orbs have a soft silver color in their patterns and the soft silver orbs have an obsidian night color.
He also observed that the patterns were arranged in a singular circular path across all the orbs.
He also noted that they were nine in number and the tenth one was in his hands.
"Hm.... why... are they just.... floating over there?" Alex mused with a soft masculine voice as he looked at the orbs and back at the one he held.
After a little while of examining the orbs he thought, 'Are they waiting for you little guy?'
Wuuu!
A hum came from arb which joyous shocked Alex.
"Ah ha ha ha. Is that your way of saying yes?"
Wuuu!
The orb hummed again.
This greatly confused Alex who had very mixed feelings about this.
He did want to let the orb go back to the others because it seemed like they were somehow connected depending on the patterns laced their outer shells.
He felt something about the orbs that was very peculiar about these orbs that gave a very strange familiarity to Alex. It's as if he knew what they were, what they were made of and where they came from.
Like the natural connection of a loved one to their family these orbs felt like they were under him, but not in a way that he held complete dominance over them, no, rather... it felt like they were missing pieces of something that he had lost and replaced long and were born a new.
And that was why he didn't want to let go of the orb.
Because what if it left and faded away in the darkness of this void?
He would be alone. Lost. And very empty inside thought this place made him feel more whole than he could have ever been.
But...
"Hah... I guess-"
He said as his fingers slowly loosened their already gentle grip on the orb as a soft burning sensation tugged at his throat and a heavy hot one in his eyes.
His fingers wobbled and the orb softly bumped and jiggled in his fingers as it slowly began to rise.
"Hah-aha-hah."
A soft whimper escaped his lips as his grip on the orb loosened even more and more as the feeling of emptiness that filled just right also began to fade and the one of and endless filling took over.
His fingers then froze; the tears finally began welling up in his eyes momentarily blocking his vision as he whispered, "Please come back for me-e-e-e."
"Please."
He then let the orb go and it floated into the space as two of the orbs next to each other spaced away from each other slowly. The ascending orb settled itself in that space and the orbs the made a circular shape that face vertical to the ground.
"Please... please comeback for me, will ya? Sob, sob."
Alex then whimpered silently as the orbs, their colors, their auras, their shapes, their glows and the warmth that they radiated that completely filled his broken being.
Alex then closed his eyes hoping that he would see the light, but there was...
"Nothing."
"Huh.... was I too desperate to hope that-"
Wu!
"Huh?"
A warmth spread in his right shoulder.
Wu!
"Wow!"
Two more in his left leg and left shoulder.
WU!
"Wow wow wow wha-what's happening?"
Alex panicked as he suddenly began to float.
As he floated, he looked around him frantically and what he saw made him smile like never before.
"You... it hasn't even been a minute you know. sniff sniff."
Shwu!
Pout!
He was gently dropped down to the ground as the orbs swayed and danced around him.
For a moment, it felt like something so unreal that he almost got pissed off by it.
"Oh... the irony.... haha. This..... all feels like those fairy tales big sis used to read me.... Hahaha. damn it huh?"
He thought as he then looked the orbs that had suddenly stopped moving.
"Huh?"
Alex wondered upon noticing and questioned, "Uh... were y'all waiting for me?"
No hum came from them. For they now looked fancy lamps that hand all around him. From his head to his feet.
He didn't panic, he didn't wonder much nor did he sadden.
He simply smiled and stroked the orbs from the first to the last.
"You guys.... if you can trust me... then we'll make through this unfathomable irony... together."
TING!
Wu! Wu! Wu! Wu!
Wu! Wu! Wu! Wu!
The orbs frantically hummed immediately hummed at his statement as three distinctly colored hovered over his head.
In the order, black, grey and white. The three orbs then slowly descended towards his head and then...
"TING!
They tapped him.
All at once as hues of obsidian night, soft grey and pale yellow scattered all around his body that felt as if three gentle waves as soft as water itself and yet so broad they could flood an entire planet washed over him.
And besides that, they were warm... so much so that they completely filled what this void failed to. His being. That was shattered from this experience. Was now healed beyond his thanks.
'Is this you my Lord.... well, if so... I'd like to thank you so much... for helping me when I almost fell off the cliff.'
A tear not of joy nor excitement. But it was simply out of gratitude.... but towards what? The orbs.... or reality?
None of the two.... for he simply knew that only one being and force could have driven him towards all this...
And who was it?
"Thank you.... God."
He said with his hands together and his eyes shut as he then opened them and mused in thought, 'So my Lord, what have you planned next for me?'
Alex was given no more than a breath's moment of rest to think what he were to do in this place....
This place....
That was once what seemed like a comforting nightmare now seemed more a dream or rather a test in the situation of sort that was solely prepared for him...
But for what? One might ask well, it's simple really.
This was the first out of many steps that he would take on a journey like no other that either he alone or others like him were set as he took a step forward...
"Wow, haha I'm coming, I'm coming."
He left behind another record for the past.
Step, step, step.
And a new sentence for a whole new and bizarre beginning.