Not Ready Yet

In the pitch-black darkness, there was only a single line stretching endlessly into the distance.

A simple straight line whose origin and destination I couldn't discern.

I was standing on that endless line.

By the time I became aware of my surroundings, a clinging fatigue had settled over my entire body, as though I'd already been walking along that line for a long time.

I kept following it, walking and walking.

……At some point, a pale lump of light appeared up ahead.

I made my way toward it.

The farther I went, the light grew larger and smaller by turns, but eventually I reached the spot right in front of it.

I tentatively reached out toward the ball-shaped mass of light.

- Do you want to get out? -...