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Last time: What was going to happen to her? Was Artemis just going to keep floating weightless for the rest of...forever?

Artemis decided she had to calm down first. She tried to take in a deep breath. Well, that didn't work she thought. She felt calmer any how though, almost as if the farther she was from her body, the more excepting this all was...
She tried to think rationally. Which, I bet you can tell, is hard to do when your floating up into nothing. So, this is death... interesting....?....what happens now?
As she thought she looked around. Artemis was high up now, but she wasn't scared. If anything, she was emotionless. What a great view, breath taking, really. She smirked at the joke. At least she could amuse herself.
Slowly, the clouds seemed to become harder, almost like you could step on them. After some time... was it hours? days? minutes? seconds? she stop floating and drifted down a bit, and her feet touched down on the clouds. This only contradicts everything my teacher has ever taught me... she looked around, nothing to be seen but the white of the clouds and the blue/grey of the sky.
She tried walking, but her feet didn't move, she hovered, with her feet dragging behind. This is so cool!! Her worries were behind her, left there to stay forever it felt. maybe this is heaven... As she was hovering around in circles, enjoying the feel of it, she heard clapping behind her.
She spun around. Who could that be? Standing not to far away, was a man, in this late 20's.
"Good job. you figured out how to float faster then most newly diseased do." said the man.So she was dead...
"Um... thank you? Who are you? And, more importantly, where am I?" She responded warily.
"Well, actually, I'm your conscious. And you're in Bagutra."
"Well then conscious, that's a unusual name...what does it mean?" Artemis said falling into the trick.
"Silly girl. I was just joking. My name is Lewis," how ironic... "And this would be the 'land' between earth and heaven."
She waited for him to go on, there had to be more.
He waited for her response, usually, the reactions are his favorite part of his job.
"Okay....? Anything else?" shes a bit impatient...
"Yes, i was waiting for... it to sink in...."
"Alright..." smiling at his awkwardness.
"Well, my job is messenger, to tell you something important. You can call it life altering if you want." grinning at his joke. "You can choose to go to heaven, and forget your worries like you did earlier, live like that forever. Or, you can return to earth, as a ghost. As a ghost, you will feel all human emotions, and will be able to flout, of course, but human communication is minimum."
"...what do u mean by minimum?" she was thinking to fast, her brain hurt.
"Well, they can't see you, but to hear you, you would have to go inside their head. and think to them... its kinda confusing..."
She didn't know what to say. Did she have to answer now?
"Well? Whats it gonna be?"

To Be Continued
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