LOGINSamuel 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"The cat ...", it suddenly occurred to Amelie, "You have withdrawn the rest of her life energy."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. But if you didn't do your job right, all the lights were turned off for good. Somehow it wasn't really fair.
"I think then I would rather die directly than end up being an angel responsible for the death of others," she mused.
"If you are given the choice of becoming a Guardian Angel or not, you are not told that you can be demoted to an Angel of Death."
“This is totally unfair! You can't just hide that. "
"So far it's been going very well."
"Wait a minute ... Who is making the angel offer to suitable souls? The angels of death? "
Samuel nodded silently.
“But you should know better! It is your duty to inform the ignorant souls about the consequences of their decision. "
“If we did that, only a fraction would consent and the angel people would eventually die out. That mustn't happen. "
"How so? What would happen then? "
“First of all, living things on earth would die much faster from actually harmless diseases or injuries. If that happens, then nobody would be there to show the souls the right way to the other side. Consequently, they would be lost and wandering between the worlds and never find peace. In the worst case, the demons of the underworld would get hold of them. "
"Demons?"
"The inhabitants of the underworld."
"What do they want to do with the lost souls?"
"Create new demons and strengthen the army and with it the power of the ruler of the underworld."
"So you want to make me know that there is both heaven and hell, am I right?"
"Figuratively. Not as you humans imagine it to be. The angels do not sit on the clouds and the demons do not stew in purgatory of damnation. "
"Rather?"
“It's difficult to explain to outsiders. Rather, there are empty spaces between the worlds. Light and shadow. "
“Sounds pretty complex. And how do you get there? "
“With the power of thought. Earthly humans can neither enter the space of light nor the space of shadow. "
"All well and good, but wa ..."
Samuel held up a hand to stop her. His ears twitched.
"I have to go for a short time. Does not take long."
"Does someone die?"
Samuel got up and nodded briefly. Amelie also jumped to her feet.
"Wait! When are you coming back?"
"Soon."
And with that - just like in the forest - he disappeared again like a ghost before her eyes. His body became more and more transparent and then suddenly he was gone.
Amelie grabbed her forehead and looked at where Samuel had just been standing. What was she doing there? Why did Ide have to lead her to church too?
Samuel was definitely real; she was sure of that by now. Still, she struggled to believe his adventurous tales of angels and demons. In general, she was still burning a hell of a lot of questions, all of which he would have to answer the next time he visited her.
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