LOGINBack at the apartment, Amelie began to prepare a small dinner. Denise was at her company party today and would certainly eat her way through the entire buffet there. So a one-man menu would be enough this time.
Amelie cooked some spaghetti and created a simple carbonara sauce out of the bag to go with it. Sometimes it just wasn't that bad. Especially when your thoughts were somewhere else anyway. Again and again she looked back on the conversation with Samuel in her head. The way he put it, there was a theoretical possibility that he was a supernatural creature. That would also explain how he could vanish into thin air before her eyes. Theoretically. Because she lived in reality and there was nothing supernatural . Even if local mentalists and media tried to persuade you to do it again and again. So to be absolutely sure that she wasn't crazy, she would have to touch him next time. Just to make sure he was flesh and blood and not just a ghostly hallucination of her subconscious.
After lunch, Amelie saddled her bike again and drove to the nearby riding stable, where she had a riding stake in a good-natured Haflinger named Lutz.
She took him out of his stable, cleaned and dabbed him, and rode him a little on the clay court.
She had always wanted to ride a horse as a child, but her parents had opposed it. Because it was a) not completely harmless and b) quite expensive. But since she lived with her aunt, who had never really forbidden her to do anything, and earned her own money, she hadn't hesitated a second longer and took her first riding lessons. Since her modest salary was not enough for her own horse, she was delighted to have been able to ride the cozy Lutz for two years and was more than happy with it. It was a welcome change and always a little escape from everyday life somewhere.
Amelie arrived home in the late afternoon. Sweaty and exhausted, the first thing she did was take a refreshing shower. Then she put on a loose shirt and sweatpants so that she could end the day comfortably on the couch in front of the TV.
Amelie was shocked to find Samuel waiting on the couch with his arms crossed over his chest as she entered the living room.
"How did you get in here?" She asked indignantly.
Hadn't she closed the door properly? Not even Idefix had struck and noticed the intruder. Instead, he slept peacefully in his basket in her room.
"That is not important."
“I've heard that before today. Are you doing that often? Are you gaining access to other people's homes without being asked? "
He nodded naturally, without a trace of guilty conscience. Amelie stopped short. Should she get help or call the police? If she was quick enough, she could ring HP before Samuel could reach and stop her. But it was well known that a not inconsiderably long period of time passed before HP was at the door. By that time he would certainly have dragged her back to her apartment long ago. Sven made his debut and was therefore not there; so not an option either. Frau Gerling left on principle. So there was only the police left. But how should she inform them unnoticed?
Amelie wrapped her arms protectively around her torso and shifted uncomfortably from one foot to the other. Despite the hot shower, she suddenly felt cold.
"What do you want from me?"
It was another few seconds before he answered.
"Talk to you."
"Talk to me?", She assured herself surprised, "But why and about what?"
"I haven't spoken to anyone in a long time."
Even if there was still not much movement in his face, he looked a little ashamed and embarrassed.
Amelie hesitated a moment, but then slowly sat down next to him on the couch, keeping a safe distance. She felt sorry for him.
“Okay, Samuel, let's talk now. You can start. What is there to know about you You said you haven't spoken in a long time. How come? "
His golden brown eyes studied her. Samuel's whole charisma didn't seem quite as confident as before.
"That's part of it," he said more to himself than to her.
She sighed sadly. As she was getting colder, she grabbed a blanket from the armrest and wrapped herself in it.
"You don't like to talk about yourself, can that be?"
"I'm not sure what I can and can't tell you."
“I am extremely trusting and can keep secrets to myself. I was always the sorrows aunt in my circle of friends. "
She grinned and tried a little to break the ice, but it didn't really work.
"I know."
Amelie was shocked to see how a shy smile actually played around his lips this time.
"From where? How do you know me Tell me please."
"Do you believe in a god?"
"No, not really."
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