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course we’ll die
too but that won’t bother us… we’re Recarns. I’ve actually been
blown up several times before, so it doesn’t worry me.”
    “I won’t tell a soul. I
promise.”
    “You’ll understand the irony
of that one day.”
    “Can I ask a question
Jake?”
    “Of course.”
    “Will the police want to
talk to me when they find your body and how do I get back to my
car?”
    “As you like to count so
much, can I just point out that that’s two questions. No, there
isn’t anything that could connect you to my death. The only
fingerprints on the gun will be mine. There will be no fingerprints
on the car because I was wearing gloves all the time I was in it.
Don’t forget to make sure that you wear the latex gloves when you
check my body for signs of life. There will be absolutely no reason
for them to even think that you have some kind of connection to my
death. I even ran up serious gambling debts so that they’ll have a
motive for my suicide.”
    “And the route back to my
car?”
    “Look above the tree line
over there. What do you see?”
    “Looks like a helium filled
red balloon to me.”
    “That’s exactly what it is.
Just head towards that balloon and you’ll arrive at the car park.
Old technology but efficient.”
    “One final question,
please.”
    “Go on.”
    “What about the
gunshot?”
    “Already thought that one
out. There are farms near here. People will just think that it’s a
farmer shooting at a fox. Finally, what were the numbers and
colours of the dice?”
    “Red, five. Blue, three.
Yellow, six. Green, five. Black, one. White, four.”
    “Good. Now turn towards the
balloon.”
    Aaron did as he was
bid.
    “Goodbye Jake …and thanks, I
think.”
    “Goodbye Aaron. See you in
twenty-five years. Oh, and don’t forget to release the balloon when
you’re back at your car.”
    The gunshot made Aaron
flinch. Although he had no desire to see a freshly shot corpse, he
duly checked the body for a pulse but there was no sign of life.
Jake was definitely dead. Aaron set off in the direction of the
tethered balloon, hardly believing that the afternoon’s events had
really happened.

Chapter 3
7:30 a.m. Friday, 15th May,
2015
     
    Aaron couldn’t help but be
excited. He checked the calendar on his smartphone one more time,
just as he had been checking it for the last three weeks. He was
like a child waiting for Christmas, he was so anxious for the
return of Jake. It would be a true second coming, but not the
second coming that various religions had predicted.
    It was impossible not to
want this proof to exist no matter how cynical and detached Aaron
tried to remain – emotionally he was like a child torn between
overcoming a level in a video game by using a cheat, and succeeding
by his own diligence and perseverance. He had been forced to
reluctantly admit to himself that despite his best efforts he had
been unable to come up with anything that could be considered as
substantial proof of reincarnation. All his efforts had been
founded on studying people from a retrospective point of view, from
the past lives that his subjects had supposedly lived. There was no
credible proof that the subjects were remembering things and not
simply regurgitating things that they had, consciously or
subconsciously, heard or read about and the evidence was thus
anecdotal. But now he appeared to have the opportunity – as crazy
as it may seem – to be the sole physical witness to an experience
from the past and to be part of its retelling twenty-five years
later by a stranger who could only know certain aspects of these
same experiences if he or she had also been there at the
time.
    He checked the calendar again.
Nothing had changed. The date was still Friday
15 th May, 2015. It was half-past seven in the
morning, and at eight o’clock Aaron would go to through to his
office and start his day’s work. But today would be different.
Today, Aaron would be acutely aware of any phone calls, emails,