Prologue: The End of the Old Life

Prologue: The End of the Old Life

Hello, my name is Luke, well it used to be, it’s now Paula. I bet you are wondering why two names? Well it started in the year 2020. Covid-19 was running amok, Kobe Bryant, Little Richard, and many other celebrities had died, and murder hornets (although that did not become a thing). I was on my deathbed having contracted Covid. My body was shutting down, the last thing I remember was the pretty nurse calling for a crash cart, wishing not to die, but falling into the void called death.

Forty-three, I was Forty-three years old and I died on my birthday. I was heading home from my weekend job to relax when the symptoms started to show their ugly head. The next day I was hit hard, coughing, high fever, body aches, headache, the works. I called 9-1-1 when I started having trouble breathing and passed out as the next thing I remember I was in the hospital with a pretty nurse checking my vitals.

As I said, I was coming back from my second job, My primary job was a professional gamer. Some might consider this career not a real job but I made real money from it. From 9 in the morning to 9 at night I would practice, or stream on YouBook or FaceTube. Admittedly my streaming donations were starting to stall due to Covid. I barely made rent and bills and took up a job on the weekends to make ends meet. Probably where I got this damned illness, someone not wearing a mask interacting with me. I was a clean freak during this outbreak, wearing a mask every time I had to go out. Hand sanitizer with me whenever I went out. Even a little do-hicky to open doors with so I didn’t have to touch the handles.

“It’s not fair!” I shouted into the void, no longer in the hospital, but in limbo.

“Who said life was fair?” A soft voice whispered.

“What? Who said that?” I looked around for who said that.

“I did” I looked around and saw her, a young girl maybe 13. “I just turned 13. I was at my birthday party, I was swimming, then ... then...” She started to tear up. I went over and held her as she sniffled and cried for a few minutes.

“It’s alright I think I know what happened, and I’m sorry it happened” I said as I held her. Her arms wrapped around me tightly as she soon calmed down. She looked up at me and she has the brightest green eyes I had ever seen, and long flowing red hair. Stop it! I said to myself she’s just a kid.

Just then another appeared, a woman, a full figured woman, curves in all the right places, blond flowing hair and piercing blue eyes. It was the nurse from the hospital. “Wait, aren’t you my nurse?” I asked.

“Yes I was your nurse, but it is not who I am, I am Freya, but we have a quandary on our hands, my children. You weren’t supposed to die Luke. You were supposed to live a long healthy life.” She turned to Paula. “I’m sorry Paula but your time is up with that body, but worry not you’ll be born again on your Earth.” She said with a wink and smile to her. “Her body can still be revived...” she quietly went into thought.

“Are you saying what I think you are saying? Putting me in her body?” I said, surprised at myself for considering it so readily.

“Yes my child. I will even grant you a boon of your making”

A boon? Now this could get interesting, I’ll be a woman though so no dick enlarging, chuckling to myself at that silly thought, but then it hit me like a ton of bricks. What if I could use my entire brain? What would that allow me to do? Guess I will find out. “I would like to use my entire brain, 100% of it, with perfect recall of what I already know, what Paula knows and what I will learn” I asked of Freya.

“It will be done my child, now close your eyes.”

I did as she said then I heard Paula speak “Take care of my family mister, especially my brother...” and then she was gone and suddenly I was gasping for air.