Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. The places and character names depicted are purely products of the author's imagination. Please do not take it seriously and simply enjoy this fictional story.
The last thing Amit Agarwal felt was the deafening sound of metal screaming against the laws of physics.
It was a sound that tore through the daily cacophony of Delhi traffic, ending with a violent, explosive crash.
The world, as seen through the windshield of his modest car, became a kaleidoscope of shattering glass and the impossibly fast approach of a truck's grille.
Then, there was just a crushing, immense pressure, and the world dissolved into a silent, featureless darkness.
He was floating.
No body, no weight, no up or down. Just his consciousness, a lone spark adrift in an endless, starless void.
The clamor of his end had been replaced by a profound silence that felt heavier, more potent than any sound.
"Mom... Dad..." The thought was a faint whisper in the void.
Regret, cold and sharp, was the only thing that felt real.
His life, a simple, unremarkable journey of a twenty-five-year-old software engineer in Delhi, was over.
No great achievements, no epic love story, no memorable legacy.
Just a quiet existence, now brutally extinguished in a traffic accident.
He had always thought he would have more time.
Time to travel, to make his parents proud, to find someone, to live.
But it seemed the universe had other plans.
Just as despair began to consume him, a new sensation dawned.
It was a pull.
Not a physical force, but a deep, inexplicable tug on the very fabric of his being.
It came from nowhere and everywhere at once, a current in the ocean of silence.
A strange, ancient energy stirred in the void, echoing with a power older than the stars.
It latched onto his soul, a cosmic tide pulling him toward an unknown shore.
Resisting was impossible. His faint consciousness, the last remnant of his 'I', was reeled in like a fish on an unbreakable line, dragged from the familiar darkness toward a future he could never have imagined.