Sovereign Ruler Valiant Protector Spiritual Guide ==========
Stirring from slumber, my eyes focused on the digital display before me. Puzzlement clouded my mind. I was aware, yet disoriented. Clearly, this was a System interface, but its purpose eluded me. Why would it prompt me to exterminate another? Such a ludicrous proposition! I had been in a state of rest, or more precisely, the entity whose physicality I had inherited was resting. But that's not the entire truth. His cessation of life had led to my consciousness inhabiting his vessel, indicating my own passage from life. Does this make me a soul reborn in another's frame or a wanderer traversing realms?
Roger Thomas is a self-employed computer consultant and corporate instructor who lives in Michigan with his wife Ellen. They have raised six children and are now helping those children raise their 14 (at last count) grandchildren. He loves reading, especially works by the Inklings, and baking bread to enjoy with homemade grape jam. From Afar is his third book