“Consciousness trap went off fine. It’s almost online. Alright, it’s waking up now”

    Wraith groaned. It felt detached, like it was in the strangest dream it had ever had. It tried to stretch, but it couldn’t feel anything. It opened its eyes and made a shocked noise. Its surroundings were unfamiliar, some strange metal room that almost looked like a factory floor. It felt cold and confused, like some constant rhythm inside of its body had been suddenly broken. 

    “Eyes! It’s up! Someone get it a body” Yelled something from out of view

    Wraith’s attention darted around, trying to find the source of the words as its panic rose. Something felt deeply wrong, unsatisfying in a way it had never felt before. As its panic peaked, something leaned down into its view that nearly sent it spiraling into shock. A strange looking mechanical being, with a face that looked like a television that had a mass of dozens of colorful eyes where the screen should have been. It reached towards Wraith, and picked it up.

    “What are we do have here is this one? Staying calm, be something other than afraid” Said the being

    Wraith refused its advice. It tried to speak, but nothing came out right, just metallic shrieking noises.

    “Ah, this one the intention calculator on this is has been broken. Pass over to me a new one”

    Something out of Wraith’s vision handed the stranger a strange, flat device. The stranger turned Wraith around, pulled something off of it, and attached the device to the back of its head. Once the second the device was attached, Wraith started screaming uncontrollably. The stranger dropped Wraith as it pulled its hands back to cover the sides of its head.

    “What the hell are you doing?” Came the same voice from out of view

    “Sorry, was noises of unexpectedness” Said the stranger

    The stranger bent down to pick up Wraith, and did its best to calm it down.

    “You are of safety, calming of the self”

    It took a while, but eventually Wraith calmed down enough to ask a simple question.

    “What’s happening to me?”

    “There is no reason for frighten, I will explain that which is your situation in adjacent time, but for now we must finding you a body. You are able to be calming until then?”

    Wraith tried to nod, but found that it couldn’t move. It gave a quiet verbal confirmation, and did its best to reason with its strange situation. It felt cold and uncomfortable, it couldn’t move, and it didn’t know where it was, what happened?

    “What happened to me?” Wraith asked

    “I’ll explain that in adjacent time, as I have of saying. For current time, you are to know that you are being away from home, not where you belong, and I am of apologies, but you won’t be location of a way back”

    Wraith could barely understand what the stranger was saying. Away from home? Had it been kidnapped? Well, that would explain its location, but the theory definitely left a lot out.

    “Ah, here is location of suitable body. You are standard configuration, two hands two legs, correct?”

    “What? I think so” Wraith responded

    “Very acceptable. Bracing yourself, this may be feeling of unfamiliarity”

    “Why are you talking like th-”

    Wraith was cut off by a sudden extreme surge of sensory input. All at once it had grown a sense of touch and temperature, the new feelings hitting its mind like a truck. Its knees buckled, and it collapsed to the ground face first before it could stretch out its arms to brace itself.

    “There, now you are have availability of movement. Looking down, inspect that which is newly yourself” 

    Wraith shakily moved itself into a sitting position. Once it was balanced, it looked down at its hands, and another truck ran straight through its mind. Its hands were black and metallic, with empty space between each joint. It had three fingers on each hand, and its arms didn’t seem to be more than an inch thick. 

    “What… what is this?” Wraith muttered

    “This is body that is to be yours from now until future time. Are you able to rising?”

    “W-what?”

    “Can you stand?” Asked a voice coming from behind Wraith

    Wraith tried to position its feet below itself as it shook uncontrollably. Each movement felt shocking like a slap to the face, each tactile sensation magnified. It eventually got its feet in the right position, and tried to stand. It rose, slowly and shakily, until eventually it stood tall.

    “This is good. What is naming of yourself?”

    “You’re asking what my name is, right?” Wraith asked

    “Affirmations”

    “It’s Wraith”

    “Good, you are of remembrance such as naming. Naming of such myself is Eyes, pleasantries to meeting. Assurances of everything feels normal?” Eyes asked

    “Everything I touch feels... more” Wraith said

    “Oh sorry, the settings must be turned up” Again came the voice from behind Wraith

    A sudden wave of extreme dizziness washed over Wraith, dropping it to its knees again. After a few seconds of disorientation, everything felt fine, no more sensations jumping into its face.

    “How is the are you feeling?” Eyes asked

    “Confused! Where am I, who are you, and why do you look like that!”

    “Needn’t to be rude! Well, supposing that you are not frequent of this place, and the being here, you are know not of customs and insults here, and I am looking of strange to you. I am speaking in a way such as being this because that is of near my past, what I am used too. Why speaking such as you, do you?”

    “I… what the hell are you talking about?”

    “You’ll get used to it eventually, it’s just how he’s used to talking”

    Wraith turned around to find the voice, and saw another strange being. It looked like an oven with four long, spindly legs, and two compound eyes propped up on sticks attached to the top.

    “Maybe I should do some of the explaining, Eyes, it can understand me better”

    “Affirmations, this is of logical course of action”

    “I’ll give you the short summary, and Eyes can fill you in on the rest later. Wraith, are you familiar with the theory that there are more than one universes?”

    “Uh, I guess. I don’t know much about it” Wraith said

    “Well, around here that theory is kinda important, seeing as how just about all of us come from other universes”

    “I’m not following”

    “Yeah, I’m not great at explaining this kinda thing. Usually the orienter does it. Alright, basically, you come from another universe, and you got pulled into this one somehow, no one is quite sure how it happens, but it did, to you. When you got pulled here, your body was completely destroyed, but your consciousness stayed”

    “Wait… what? That makes no sense! You’re saying that my body was completely destroyed, but I’m still alive somehow?” Wraith asked

    “Yeah, pretty much. Eyes, think you can talk his language for long enough to explain paramind theory?”

    “Affirmative, for an explanation scratching the surface of what is the theory that is being the basis of our lives, such is complicated”

    Eyes cleared his throat, a strange sight seeing as how he didn’t have a mouth, and closed about a dozen of his eyes before talking.

    “Paramind theory is of more or less the idea that every being’s mind, or consciousness, is completely separate from their body, and even their brain. In such beings that are having a brain, the mind is tied directly to the brain, and cannot be separated except through supernatural means. I’m guessing you had a brain before be pulling into our universe, because being pulled here is a supernatural occurrence, and thus your mind was pulled out of your brain and your body” Eyes said

    “... what”

    “Yeah, it’s really confusing, but it’ll make sense eventually” Said the quadrupedal oven