LOGINIf it was at all possible, his expression seemed a little more serious.
"Now I understand," he said quietly to himself and took a step back by himself. Idefix relaxed a little but remained vigilant nonetheless.
"What ... what do you understand?" She asked, confused.
He stared at the floor for a while and seemed to be thinking hard about something before turning his gaze back to her.
"Why you can see me."
If she were a cartoon character, there would be a huge question mark hovering over her head. Since she wasn't, she looked at him expectantly with eyes wide in disbelief. Was he really serious?
"And why do you think that I shouldn't be able to see you?"
She felt incredibly ridiculous to have seriously asked him this question and yet she couldn't help it. Something about that scornful face told her he wasn't kidding.
“Because nobody else can see me. Nobody alive. "
It took a moment before she caught his words.
"Are you telling me that I'm dead?" She asked purely rhetorically.
And again he shook his head in slow motion. It was ridiculous, but still she breathed a little easier.
"Would you like to explain to me what you're getting at?"
As usual, his expression remained rigid. Maybe he was quarreling with himself. Or maybe he regretted going to her at all and being asked to answer questions, which was obviously not his thing.
"It's complicated."
"I'm a clever girl," she said with a little impatience and hastily added, "Without wanting to sound arrogant."
"I know, Amelie."
Amelie thought, like last night, she saw a fraction of a smile flicker over his mask-like face. You yourself, however, now all facial features had slipped away.
"How do you know my name?" She asked, shocked.
Because she was one hundred percent sure that they had simply skipped the introductory part that usually started a conversation.
"That is not important."
“Well, I see it a little differently,” she contradicted firmly, “I don't even know what your name is. As far as I can remember, you have not yet introduced yourself to me by name. "
He bowed elegantly like in the movie.
"Forgive me, my name is Samuel."
"Well. And how do you know me now, Samuel? Because I'm pretty sure we haven't met before last night. I could definitely remember that. "
Samuel looked up into the distance and seemed to be listening for something for a few seconds.
“It's a long story. Maybe I'll tell you one day. "
“Another suggestion: tell me now. I have time. "
"I'm afraid, unfortunately I don't."
"What does this mean?"
“Duty calls. We will meet again soon, Amelie. "
"What? What does that mean? When soon? And where?"
"I will find you."
"But..."
Amelie blinked several times as her eyes were starting to play tricks on her. Samuel's body seemed to become more and more transparent until it finally disappeared completely and the last remnant of his silhouette seemed to have been carried away with the wind.
What remained was a completely disturbed Amelie who was still staring at the place where Samuel had just been standing.
Was she completely nuts now? Could she possibly have a brain tumor that projected the most confused hallucinations into her eyes? Did Samuel even exist?
As if remote-controlled, she started moving again and ran back home with Idefix in an incredulous trance.
Saturday was largely unspectacular until the early evening. Amelie had thought for a long time whether she should tell Niels about Samuel, but in the end decided against it. Because a) she didn't know whether she was allowed to talk to others about her newly acquired knowledge and b) probably nobody would believe her anyway. After all, if she hadn't assured herself that Samuel was more or less flesh and blood, she would still have doubted her sanity. Samuel accompanied her in her mind through the whole day and by now she had made her peace with the fact that he and his supernatural world actually existed.But she still did not want to accept that she supposedly possessed the soul of light, which was only to be born every few decades and later become an archangel.A mute Niels, for example, who couldn't harm a fly and was simply kind to everyone, certainly had a much purer soul than she. Samuel just hadn't looked very closely at all the others and therefore declared her
So you think that I'm an archangel," she assured herself at some point that she understood him correctly."No. I think that your soul will become one after you die. ""And what does it mean to be an archangel?"“The Archangels are the superiors of the Guardian Angels and Angels of Death, if you will. You organize everything we do from within the space of light. You decide, for example, about the demotion of the angels or the size of our areas of responsibility. ""Said in German: You order everyone else around.""So to speak."“I think you are wrong, Samuel. I definitely don't have a soul of light and I definitely won't be an archangel either. I also have bad thoughts and I'm definitely not as flawless as you might think. "“You forget that I can look into people's souls. And yours is so bright that it almost blinds me. I am not mistaken. I've never done that before. "“At some point is always the first
She rubbed Idefix as dry as possible and took off her shoes, socks and jacket, sat down with her aunt on the couch and let herself be showered with the same evening program. Inevitably, her mind kept drifting back to Samuel. Didn't he say it wouldn't be long? A glance at her cell phone told her it had been almost four hours since he left. Had something happened to him? But what should happen to him? After all, he wasn't even really alive; if everything he'd told her so far was true.A little later, she said goodnight to Denise and crumbled into her room with Ide in tow. As soon as she had entered the room, an icy breeze made her shiver and her breathing became visible. Idefix tensed and growled menacingly as a shadow moved in the farthest corner. Although she couldn't be 100 percent sure it was just Samuel, she surely pushed Idefix out of the room with her leg and closed the door in front of his nose. Because if he continued to growl, Denise would become suspicious. And expla
"Fuck! I think I have to die! My stomach really hurts, ”complained Denise, who was lying on her back on the couch with knees bent and rubbing her aching, well-filled stomach.At the word die Amelie couldn't help thinking of Samuel. It had been hours since he disappeared. She pushed the thoughts of him aside."Themselves to blame. You surely overeat yourself mercilessly. ""I will never eat anything again.""The best thing is to grab Ide and take a digestive walk," suggested Amelie, "He could get out again anyway."Idefix, who had been lying on his stomach across from the couch on the living room carpet, looked up curiously when he heard his name."Very unselfish," said Denise with a look out of the window, on whose pane the raindrops were running down. Half an hour ago it had rained in comfortably."Nonsense."“I'm afraid I am unable to move. You will have to go yourself. Besides, it's your dog. "
Samuel nodded vaguely.In other words, Samuel was playing God. He took life, and sometimes gave it when he had a good day. At least it sounded difficult after that."Nobody should have that much power.""I have them in a way.""The cat ...", it suddenly occurred to Amelie, "You have withdrawn the rest of her life energy."Samuel nodded again."But why didn't you save her when you can?""She was as good as dead when I was with her.""So what? I would save everything that could be done if I had the power! ""Then you would work purposefully by your task as the transporter of the dead."Amelie shrugged indifferently."What should happen?""Apart from the fact that the already overpopulated world would be even more overpopulated, you would suffer the fate of a fallen angel and die final death."Amelie looked puzzled. Depending on the suitability of the soul, one became an angel after human death.
No, not really."“What do you think will happen to the dead? Do you believe in life after death? "“No, not even that, but what does that have to do with me? How do you know me from? ""Do you think angels and demons exist?""Still no. I don't believe in anything like that, okay? Neither paradise nor hell, nor their inhabitants. Satisfied?"But Samuel didn't seem happy with her answer."But what do you believe in then?"Amelie let out a loud breath. What was this Question Time about their faith and God?“I believe in science and common sense. It must be enough."He nodded thoughtfully."Then it probably doesn't make sense to talk to you about it."Amelie blinked in confusion."I do not understand you. You come here and say you want to talk to me. Now I'm not giving you the right answers to your really strange questions and am therefore no longer good enough as a conversation partner