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Limbo-Synopsis
The story starts with the protagonist, Daniel, dying in a car accident. He is driving home and unhappy about being late but it is unclear what he is late for. When he wakes up he is in a grassy field and looked down on by a strange young man, sitting on a boulder, smiling. His name is Jackson and he tells Daniel he has died and is now in Limbo. He explains Limbo is the place souls go when they are not ready to move on, although it is home to native inhabitants who aren’t dead like himself.
Immediately Daniel becomes desperate in finding a way back to the living world but Jackson says he can’t, he’s dead. However he mentions the existence of doors that can take a soul back but as a ghost and only temporarily. Daniel demands to know where he could find one. Jackson haplessly points him in the right direction and Daniel is gone in that moment, before Jackson could warn him of the dangers along the way.
Daniel soon spots the door, edged into the top of a rocky hill twice the height of a small forest of trees, with blue bark and white leaves spattered with black, surrounding its base. With no thought he runs into the forest, which is when he notices the faces in the bark (common even in the trees of the living world) appear to be watching him. But he is determined to keep his fear under control and continue in his goal.
The next moment the tree faces begin reaching out of their cold blue homes, forming bodies of wood and wielding weapons of the same, which gleam as if steel. In seconds they’re attacking Daniel from different sides. He dodges these initial attacks and, thinking fast, grabs a two-handed axe from one of the forest men. He fights his way through the growing crowd, forcing his way through, despite injuries suffered in the attempt, reaching an opening between the forest and hill. He is lucky. He quickly discovers those wooden people cannot leave the confines of their forest home. With a single calming breath he moves on, beginning to scale the mountain.
As he climbs he discovers a cave. Except he was certain it wasn’t there last he looked. With little time to think a harpy bursts from the cave mouth, ready to bring the second attempt on Daniel’s afterlife. But he’s quick. Axe still in hand, he swings it at the beast, delivering one fatal blow. He gives little thought to the creature he has killed, continuing in his task he needs to complete.
He reaches the top of the hill, the door within reach, when he is stopped by Jackson. Jackson reveals his true intentions that wanted to reach the door but didn’t want to risk his life doing it. So instead he began finding wayward souls and sending them after the door so they could kill the monsters, or offer a decent distraction so Jackson could sneak around. And, to Jackson’s pleasure Daniel succeeded in giving Jackson a path to the door. The first to do so, the others died and when you die in Limbo there is nowhere else to go except oblivion. Daniel is getting angry, even more so when we find out Jackson wishes to go to the living world, where he can stay permanently as he is alive, to do whatever he wants as a magic-user in a world of humans (which he implies what he would do wouldn't be pleasant). However Daniel wouldn't allow this. With little thought he rams into Jackson, knocking him down the hill, possibly to his death, suffering burns from Jackson’s last magical attacks. But Daniel has little time to reflect on any of that as he has something he needs to do. So he goes through the door.
The door opens into a house in the living world, in place of the front door. It is night and the lights are all off. He walks up the stairs. At the head of the stairs is a little girl’s room. He is a ghost so he is able to walk through the door into the room. Inside there is a little girl of about eight or so, sleeping in her bed. He walks over to her, leans down and kisses her forehead, tears in his eyes. He says goodbye and that he loves her. At that moment the little girl wakes up. She sits up in her bed, “Dad?” but no one is there.
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