Confession of a Ghost. 34. 7. Myths, stars and

“CONFESSION of a GHOST”
a novel by Alexandra Kryuchkova
in the “PLAYING ANOTHER REALITY” series

7 BEFORE/34 AFTER. HOUSE No.11

*****AXES*****

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Somewhere in the Universe


“Hello, Rukh!” a pretty girl greeted me when the Guardian and I returned to my Ziggurat.

“Are you Vesta? One of the 4 major asteroids?”

“Yes, the brightest of them,” Vesta smiled. “They consider me a symbol of virginity, of conscious Path of service via keeping the sacred flame, but I’m also the keeper of the hearth, the eldest daughter of Saturn.”

“Restrictions again!”

“Well, not like her father’s!” the Guardian laughed. “You are a child of Saturn, a thing in yourself, why should you be afraid of Vesta?”

“I’m connected with Capricorn and Cancer, the Signs of Saturn and the Moon, both planets intersect in your Self,” Vesta said, stopping in the corner of an open area on the roof of the Ziggurat, right under the dome of the Universe. “The task is to find balance in the center, in the Sign of Virgo, and you have it in House No. 4, in the hearth. By the way, in ancient Rome, at the entrance to houses, there were ‘vestibules’ as places dedicated to Vesta, where torches burned as a symbol of unquenchable fire. You’ll love fireplaces, a modernized version. Vestals and priestesses of love in the ancient Temples were also me. Previously, there was no Sign of Libra, a symbol of marriage, and I was related to both the chaste Virgin and the sexual energy of Scorpio.”

“I’m confused,” I stopped Vesta. “Do you mean restrictions, while serving in temples and keeping the hearth?”

“I show where and how to concentrate energy in order to realize earthly destiny. Serving an idea to fulfill one’s mission involves sacrifice. People come to temples and make donations. I also show the area of limitation. If a person doesn’t make a sacrifice, something will be taken away.”

“How does one make a sacrifice?” I asked.

“By sublimating sexual energy, you can achieve excellent results in creativity, but…”

“Stop,” I interrupted Vesta, “you are in House No. 11, what does that mean?”

“You must serve the masses and the Future, your highest dream, but periodically rest and limit your contacts so that the energy is not dissipated. For example, you need to finish a book, and you are invited to the theater, while you work for your boss 5 days out of 7. You have no time to write.”

“So, should I write?”

“Yes, you don’t write for yourself. And no one will write your book but you. I tend to asceticism in general, and much more in conjunction with Jupiter, which symbolizes spirituality and the expansion of horizons. You have a clearly spiritual task, for example, to bring knowledge into the world.”

“Vesta is very fruitful,” the Guardian added, “and her conjunction with Jupiter makes it possible to implement large-scale projects, such as intellectual, philosophical or religious, with a focus on society.”

“Jupiter and I are equally afflicted by Uranus,” Vesta continued. “Usually the conflict is due to non-standard. Ideas, for example, like it happened to Leonardo da Vinci. He devoted his life to working out the brilliant ideas of Uranus in the spirit of Vesta. The sacrifice is love, children, or they will interfere with the fulfillment of your mission. However, I’m the keeper of the hearth. Your Sphere of Marriage is in Capricorn, the Sign of Saturn and me, and even if our relations with Uranus (or Uranus itself) prevent marriage, there are 120 degrees from Jupiter and me to your House of Family and Juno!”

“120 degrees?” I asked.

“This is a trine, lightning-fast problem solving due to the removal of obstacles. Look for Jupiter,” Vesta laughed. “Of course, you won’t consider for relationship any man with a spiritual level lower than yours, and finding a highly spiritual Jupiter is not an easy task, basically everyone gets stuck at the level of merchants-industrialists. It’s easier to devote yourself to serving God than to family life. In ancient Rome, vestals could marry after a service of thirty years, later they turned into eternal nuns.”

“So… will I have a late marriage, or will I become a nun?”

“Several marriages, but the late one is happy. A spiritual union with a partner is needed. By trine with Juno, you lead an ascetic life at the beginning, and after you transfer knowledge to the world…”

“What about your stay in Taurus?”

“Taurus are stubborn creatures. Having realized the goal, you stubbornly move towards it, no one can lead you astray. On your way, they will allow you to get something as an encouragement and confirmation of the right direction. You write your first book, you get to the right place at the right time, to be patted on the head, and you get a medal.”

“Temptations,” I exhaled.

“I’m not very friendly with your Mars,” Vesta added. “Tendency to workaholism to the point of complete exhaustion, and to depression and auto-aggression from helplessness. I’m at 150 degrees from Pluto, it’s called quickens, that means liberation, global change, transformation. Pluto people will throw you into a radically different space, not excluding our World.”

“Yeah,” I said thoughtfully. “The main thing I’ll remember from our conversations on the Stairs is the murderer of my soul, Pluto!”

“Let’s talk about the degree of Vesta,” the Guardian smiled. “It’s the degree of a happy marriage, eternal youth and attractiveness, of magnetic power that can heal, of arts and innumerable enemies. Your favorite stargazer wrote, ‘a beautiful white swan floats on the smooth surface of the lake, with lilies and wonderful wild flowers growing along its edges.’ From an ugly duckling you’ll turn into a snow-white swan, who will fulfill the destiny and find peace in family life.”

“Thank you,” I said hopefully, as suddenly… the wall opposite stirred and … split in two!

“What is this?” I exclaimed, clinging to the Guardian.

The Guardian and Vesta laughed, and the detached fragment approached me and…

“Tail?! Whose tail is this?”

“Well, look how sweetly it’s wagging at you!” the Guardian laughed.

“It wants to be pet by you!” Vesta laughed.

I gently touched the Tail with my hand, and it immediately calmed down.

“It’s good you made friends with it!” The Guardian smiled. “It’s time for us to go to the Library, and I’ll tell you about it on the way.”


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Library of the Universe


“So, my soul, we’ve passed your House No. 11,” the Guardian summed up on the way to the Library. “The Tail of the Dragon, the so-called South Node, Ketu, and the North Node (Rahu, Dragon’s Head) form one of the axes of the Circle. The Dragon’s Head indicates the Sphere to be worked on, where to go. It’s always difficult there. The Dragon’s Tail shows the easiest Sphere for you.”

“Yes, yes, yes… It’s easy for me in the Future, in which I will exist no longer!”

“Don’t exaggerate! It’s easy to read the stars and see the Future. The Tail in House No. 11 means a person with a good heart, who always helps others.”

“I need to go consciously to the evil Pluto-Uranium House No. 5, where the defeat of all good comes from, instead of …”

“Exactly,” the Guardian stated calmly. “The Head is in creativity, the Tail, or the train of the results of creativity, is in the Future. The Burnt Road in the last third of House No. 5 means cutting off all ties and burning the earthly while still alive. The Dragon’s Head says what your head should be filled with, and the Tail shows the Sphere to bring the results to.”

“So, do all incarnates with the Dragon in such position bring creativity to the masses?”

“No, there are many interpretations, each Sphere has several meanings. Someone gives birth to children and sees the meaning of life in them, someone treats their books like children, and someone brings up adopted children. Both children and books go further into the world, into society. It’s important not to get confused here, since House No. 5 itself, without taking into account the axis of the Dragon, means what one gives away, and House No. 11 means what one receives for it. Head in No. 5, Tail in No. 11, for example, means that one, given an initially talent, writes, passes the written to the public and receives recognition. Don’t ask for anything in House No. 11, the Tail of the Dragon is always a ban, a taboo. You need money, and Jupiter in House No. 11 has money. Jupiter himself should guess and give money to you in the best scenario. You need to shine as the Sun among the masses, but if you are locked up in a dungeon, like Cinderella, and your untalented sisters go to the ball, it’s useless to appeal to justice.”

“What should I do then?”

“Run, my soul,” the Guardian laughed. “Someone you know may ask Jupiter to help you with money. But it’s hardly possible to force Pluto the Jailer to recognize you as the Sun. The Tail in No. 11 is success in teams, a symbol of Guru, a political leader, even a secret cardinal. You can represent your country in other countries. Athletes, they belong to Sphere No. 5 as well, perform at international sporting events, and you will be at literary ones.”

“Is the Dragon’s Tail in conjunction with Vesta?”

“No, but in the Sign of Taurus. A thirst for stability, stable ground under your feet, tranquility. You’ll stubbornly cling to people, objects, memories. And the Dragon’s Head in Scorpio requires transformation, burning everything you get used to, only through liberation from attachments you grow spiritually. Such people in old age remain alone with themselves. The Head in Scorpio-Pluto is either a symbolic or physical death of everything around, and next to the Burnt Path…”

“Are there any other axes? I remember the cross in the Circle.”

“That’s right, we connect the opposites – the door to House No. 1 (ASC, Ascendant, the moment of the first breath, ‘My Self’) with the door No. 7 (DSC, Descendant, exhalation, ‘they’), the door No. 4 (IC, the lowest point, Earth, completion) with the door No. 10 (MC, the highest point, culmination, Heaven, achievement, flourishing). The third, ‘Dragon’ axis, is formed by the nodes of Rahu and Ketu. The fourth, electric one, by Vertex and Anti-Vertex.”

“Is Vertex in my House No. 11, the central point of Andromeda?”

“Don’t confuse. Nebula, yes, you have it in House No. 11 in conjunction with Pallas. Vertex, from the Latin ‘to turn, rotate’, is also called the Destiny Gate point, located at the moment of the first breath at the intersection of the ecliptic and the plane that divides the Sky into front and back sides. An oversensitive, turning point in fate, triggers repeatedly, attracting people and events destined by Heaven. People say, ‘I got at the right time in the right place’. But there was no option not to get there. A person has no power over what happens within the Vertex turned on.”

“How is it turned on?”

“Any planet, star or point located at the moment of incarnation in a certain degree of the Circle is further switched on by one of the planets or stars passing through them or forming aspects. The current position is called Transit, and the initial one, at the moment of incarnation, is called Natal, or Radix.”

“If the planets move at the given speed,” I thought, “does it mean that the dates of the events are programmed too?”

“Of course,” the Guardian smiled. “And with such a powerful House No. 11, it won’t be difficult for you to read your destiny by stars, even without looking at their Transits.”

“It’s a poor consolation if nothing can be changed!”

“You can’t change Vertex and Anti-Vertex coordinates. They are accentuated in the passports of people predetermined to each other. For example, the Ascendant-Descendant axis of your son’s father coincides with your Vertex-Anti-Vertex axis. It’s an iron bond, inevitable.”

“So Vertex won’t give me a way to avoid Pluto’s people.”

“People call it fate. Vertex presents people and events that you realize and feel fateful. Anti-Vertex is something that is attracted beyond your awareness, you can make mistakes in assessing people and events.”

“So where is this axis located in my Circle of Life?”

“Vertex is in House No. 5, on the Burnt Road, and …”

“Is it there too?” I exclaimed. “Why didn’t I see it?”

“You were passing through a wall of acrid smoke. Your Vertex is in the 25th degree of Scorpio in the middle of the swamp. Loss of earthly vision, but a developed 3rd eye. Death alone or in a foreign country. You are doomed to attract grey cardinals and cruel manipulators-egoists with a triple bottom, who have money and power but no principles. They don’t hear the voice of conscience and constantly humiliate loved ones. Vertex in Scorpio gives difficult, confusing situations and relationships. The 25th degree of Taurus, which contains the opposite point of the axis, Anti-Vertex, was described by your favorite stargazer of the Silver Age as ‘A thick column of smoke in which flashes of lightning are visible.’ This is the degree of the sudden fall of Uranus, the degree of poets and recluses, of talent that is hard to break through, of many difficulties and obstacles on the Path. But one day, if one doesn’t escape from Earth prematurely because of the unbearable pain of one’s comfort zone destruction or the inability to provide it for oneself…”

We entered the Reading Hall, I flopped into an armchair, and the book opened at another miniature.

“Angel, promise me that I can read my stars on Earth!”

“This miniature about a girl who knew the date of her death, you’ll write at the age of 13,” the Guardian sighed, “although you’ll learn to read the stars much later. Anyhow, it’s important not just to read or see, but to draw the right conclusions.”

“I always dreamed of being like N, becoming N’s mirror image, the same easy and carefree, enjoying life… However, all I managed in the end was not to give away N’s deadline on Earth and not let N know that I was already a ghost.”


*****MYTHS, STARS and ANOTHER ALICE*****

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Somewhere in the Mist


“I’ll play the violin for you, Alice.”

“When I was 5 years old, I dreamed of playing the violin, but my mother sent me to music school to the piano. My great-grandfather played the flute at the Bolshoi Theater, he is listed on Wikipedia for his contribution to the development of musical culture. He created flute textbooks. They were translated and published abroad. He was written about in books, including one in London.”

“Haven’t you learned to play the violin yet?”

“I took cardboard and cut out two contours, painted them the color of a violin with pencils, put cotton wool between them, sewed them, attached threads as strings, and an ordinary wooden stick served me as a bow.”

“When you come to me, I’ll play Bach for you.”

“You’ll never come to him, Alice,” Ray’s voice reached me, and I woke up in my room.


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Moscow


“The Sun in Scorpio too, not our option,” Ray grinned. “Oh, how lucky you were for non-standards! John was a sexual pervert, but also a brilliant violinist. Nothing mattered for him except music and …”

“Yes, he said he enjoyed inflicting pain and watching his victim, exploring her mental reactions in extreme situations on the verge of death, and then loving her again.”

I got up and walked through the wall into the closed room.

“Well, well, well,” Ray grinned slyly and watched me trying so hard to pull out a checkered notebook from a pile of things.

“You’d better help me!” I exclaimed.

“You’re so funny!”

“Funny?! Where can I get a sheet of paper?”

“Are you serious about writing?” Ray looked at the corner of the notebook, and it crawled out from the rubble and floated through the air, falling right on the table. “So?”

“Great, now I need to get a pen from the top drawer.”

“Can I help you?” Ray chuckled. “Let’s suppose I get you a pen, and suppose, even the ink didn’t dry. Let’s suppose you’ll remember something else, apart books. So what and how are you going to write? Do you know how to write a will?”

“What do you advise?” I sank to the floor.

“Nothing new, to remember.”

“Well, what else can I remember, Ray, if I hardly remember even yesterday! I’m afraid of forgetting you tomorrow! All these riddles about the plastic necklace, some boots, the two-faced Woman… I hope today’s violin phenomenon is not from the same series! By the way, the violinist looks like that Boy the Lawyer! Lawyer?! Lawyer! God, what luck! Tonight I have to find the Boy!”


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Ouranoupoli


“The ‘Army of the Archangel Michael’ was taken away,” Socrates said, inviting me with a gesture to sit down at the table at his icon shop.

“Are there 12 of them on the icon?” I asked.

“Yes, the cherished number. The Twelve Gods existed in Greek mythology. Do you believe in our myths? 30 centuries BC! Imagine that!” Socrates raised his finger to Heaven meaningfully. “Crete-Minoan civilization! Pythagoras and Plato lived only in the 6th and 5th centuries BC. Of course, the myths were repeatedly rewritten, they added something of their own, but in general, the picture of the origin of Earth out of Chaos as well as of the first humans is obvious.”

“Uranus, the patron of Ouranoupoli, symbolized Heaven, was a god of the 1st generation, right?”

“Right. Then a lot of titans, cyclops, elemental deities appeared. The most famous are the gods of Olympus, they are also 12, like Archangels.”

“And the Apostles,” I added. “And the Signs of the Zodiac. The names of the Olympic gods correspond to the names of the planets. Zeus is Jupiter, the son of Saturn-Kronos, or Time. Pluto is Hades, the Lord of the Kingdom of the Dead. Poseidon is Neptune, and so on. Ancient people knew about Pluto discovered in the 20th century.”

“Maybe the planet was named after a deity. Do you believe in the power of the planets?”

“God would hardly have allowed people to call a planet the name He didn’t like. I believe in the Supreme Mind of God and His power. The myths describe in detail the characters of the planets, both the closest to the Earth and those far away. Perhaps some of them we still or already don’t know. For example, the giant drawings in the Nazca Valley are the Constellations of those times. After the Flood, the celestial patterns changed along with civilization, now we have a different Sky above us.”

“Do you consider Zeus and Hades gods?”

“No, since God stands above them and He is the only one. However, God the Creator must have helpers. God is unlikely to have created planets, stars, asteroids, nebulae and other celestial bodies just for nothing. I believe that destinies are written in Heaven, and being written, they can be read.”

“Do you read horoscopes?”

“No, they are too primitive, and each one’s destiny is unique. We are in the Space of Time, where day and night, seasons change, the Sun and other planets circle the Zodiacal Dial, causing certain events both on Earth and in human life, just like the Moon tides on the sea, that is, the events prescribed by God in Heaven. It’s like a computer program, Socrates. It works tirelessly, like clocks. I can’t comprehend with my earthly mind how all that is created and arranged. As for me, the Matrix of Life on Earth is the highest mathematics and alchemy combined. Anyway, I’m convinced by my own experience that the movement of the planets and their interconnections lead everyone in their own way. And ‘not a single hair will fall from your head without’…”

“Don’t quote, I remember. The Star led the Magi to the newborn Christ. The Easter is calculated according to the Lunar calendar. The ancient science of astrology… Stargazers have always been revered as prophets,” Socrates sighed. “How do you know that it works?”

“I was interested to get to the bottom of the truth, to check for myself. My life is full of non-standard. I immersed in the study of heavenly maps, then read my Path through the stars, year by year, starting from birth.”

“Did you find something not to be interpreted differently?”

“Interpretations allow variations on the theme originally set by God, each individual labyrinth has crossroads and branches. There is something inevitable too. According to the position of the planets at the time of my birth, one can calculate the date of my father’s death. How do you like it, Socrates?”

“Exactly the date?” Socrates raised his eyebrows in surprise.

“Yes,” I answered calmly. “Pay attention that it’s already known, fixed, preordained in Heaven at the moment of my birth. Not that one only.”

“What do you need for calculations?”

“The exact time and place of one’s birth.”

“What if I don’t know that?”

“Perhaps God doesn’t want you to read your stars. You can count backwards, based on the dates of important events, but sometimes it’s better not to know anything.”


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Tower of Ouranoupoli


“Joice, you won’t believe it!” I flew into the Tower and waltzed around the room. “After the apparition of the violinist, because they look alike, I understood why that Boy the Lawyer had haunted me! He will help me with the will!”

“Perhaps you are on the right track,” Joice smiled.

“Perhaps?” I got worried and sat down by the fireplace.

“Sometimes when we pull on one thread, the whole sweater unravels.”


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Library of the Universe


“Moony, do you think that Boy will help me?”

“Water doesn’t flow under a lying stone, but the salvation of the drowning is the work of the drowning,” purred the Cat, hanging the tail from the table and slowly waving it from side to side.

“Yes, you’re just like Ray! Both speak in riddles!” I began to leaf through the diary, in which mysterious formulas were flashing. “What’s that?”

“I think you called it the highest mathematics with alchemy.”


“Someone of the ancients said that everything around can be described by a number. I thought nonsense! But, teaching English, I said, ‘English is mathematics.’ Last year I came to the conclusion that poetry is mathematics. And now, discussing my Solar year, Alina has listed, ‘the monastery is 12, the cemetery is 8’, and I’ve realized that everything around is really a number! A bunch of options, phenomena, events can be described as 5 in 8.”

“The Space of Options is not an infinite number of options, but a clearly defined labyrinth for each of us, which is dictated by 3 indicators: a) Radix, or Natal chart (heavenly passport), b) lifetime behavior, c) Solar year plan (a pattern of stars and planets on each next birthday). Natal is one’s entire labyrinth, Solar is its segment. It’s played over Spheres activated by planets and stars, depending on the person’s previous and current choices. There are several options in each Sphere, but only one of them becomes reality. In hindsight, everything is clear, what happened was always within the Solar. But it’s impossible to look into the Future and say, 100% it will happen according to this scheme. Just to outline the corridor. There is a textbook on astrology on the Internet … about rectification. If you rectify, as it’s written there, you’ll start living someone else’s life. Descriptions of the Natal planets on that book include 1% of the possibilities. Be careful!”

“You can look at the Solar year from Natal as follows. 1. One year = one degree, move the planets in both directions, it works. 2. Progressions of the Moon, especially for those who have it the Master of House No. 1 in Natal. The House with the Moon is the main Sphere of the Solar year, wait for change. I’m solving the problem of bringing Pluto out of 8 (House of Death). I move it here and there, but either Saturn (the Master of 8) moves in 6 or 8, or the Sun arrives in 12, or Houses ‘overlap’ badly. Most planets are evil, and wherever you move them, either your tail or nose gets stuck, or I need to meet my birthday in the Ocean. Sometimes the corridors are quite narrow.”

“I looked for information about the Solar pointer to the one walking with the scythe. They all say Saturn in 8, but there are actually several. I have in my current Solar Saturn in 8, yes, the accident happened in the period of Saturn, on the day of Saturn – they drove into me. I look at the Clock post factum to identify the connection. Constantly looking at the Clock means to give your life for the Clock… The deeper I go, the scarier I become because of predestination. Usually, there is no 100% indication of death, there are loopholes, and if your level allows (if they consider it necessary for some reason), you’ll be transformed somehow. At critical dates, they audit one’s soul in Heaven and make a verdict what way one is to be moved, whether it’s early or not… Hurry to do Good. However, even the hardest Solar years are not mortal for people with accented House No. 8 in Natal. If Death is not accented in your Solar, don’t experiment… Svetlana is shocked, we examined the Solar years and Natal charts of her home ones. All passports are really interconnected in one family! We are all puppets, lady and gentlemen, of the Big Puppeteer. Random persons will never be next to you!”

“For lovers of heavenly crosswords. “So” means Solar year, “N” is Natal, IC is axis of departure (4 is House of Completion), DSC is stopper of the breath of life, Hyleg is life-giver, 8 is House of Death. “M” is the Master of the House, “MA” is assistant of the Master.

Well… ASC So in 8N in Aquarius, Uranus So evil M1So = MA8N on DSC So (exact conjunction), Uranus N in 8So (5 degrees to the trinity in 8So), Saturn So M12So = M8N in 8So (square to Saturn N), strength 5.4, strikes Luminary-Hyleg N in 2So and Luminary M6So (M1N) on IC So (exact conjunction), Hyleg has no good aspects (both Luminaries spoiled, with strength 3.6 each), IC So in 12N, M1N on IC So (exact conjunction), Saturn So (M8N) in conjunction with Jupiter So (M10So) in 8So, with Selene So in Libra and with Proserpine N, Venus So M8So in 1So in conjunction with Mars So, with a major aspect to the trinity in 8So, Venus N in conjunction with Venus So (orb 5), Pars Mortis N in 1So in conjunction with Pluto So, with a major aspect to the trinity in 8So, Pars Mortis So on IC So (exact conjunction), Pluto N on the threshold of 8So (exact conjunction), Ketu N in conjunction with Rahu So in 8So (orb 3), Chiron in 6So on ASC N (square to Saturn So in 8So and to Hyleg N) next to Saturn N (orb 8), Pars of Fortune So on MC with Neptune N (orb 4 and 5). Major aspects from 1So to trinity in 8So = 2 quickens (!) and trines (!). ASC So has trine (!) to IC So and quickens (!) to ASC N. Confirmed by Natal (directives, etc., etc.) + in Solar years of relatives according to their 4So and 8So.

This is the most horror Solar I have seen, because it’s amazingly accurate and inevitable, absolutely everything in it points to the same thing, which means that it shouldn’t be avoided. The only thing that can finally console the one at one’s last point is the quickens and trines to 8So, major Venus, trump Jupiter, Selene in trinity in 8So, culminating Bungula and, of course, Uranus.”


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The flat of the Lawyer, Moscow


I opened my eyes … on the balcony … of a sky-scrapper … I went inside, walked around the flat and saw the room I was drawn to… I came to the bed on which a body was sleeping.

“Damn it!” I cursed and instantly flew away to the balcony.

No, I couldn’t see the face of the man lying with his back to me, but I realized that he was much older than Boy the lawyer! Backing towards the balcony and not understanding how I could have made such mistake, I bumped into a soul of a girl who, apparently, was returning to her earthly body from a dream.

“Who are you?” she screamed. “What are you doing in our flat?”

“Sorry, for God’s sake! Wrong address!” I exclaimed, no less frightened of her, and for a moment we froze, looking at each other with interest. “Don’t disappear! Please! You see, I just… died.”

“Here?” the girl got horrified and flew back two steps.

“Oh no! Please don’t be afraid! I mean you no harm! As a matter of fact, I’m looking for a boy to ask him for help. Somehow I made a mistake and ended up in your flat, I don’t understand how it happened, but … I’ve got a strange feeling,” switching to a mysterious whisper, I added, “as if I have already been here before!”

“In your lifetime?”

“Well, yes. My memory is erased, I remember almost nothing, sorry.”

“What’s the name of the boy you are looking for?”

“I don’t remember. But more and more, I’m convinced I have definitely been here. And obviously not just once! Excuse me, what’s your name?” I asked the girl’s soul.

“I am Alice,” she introduced herself, but the sharp sound of the alarm clock instantly brought her back to her body.