Darkness, endless darkness is what came to sight, for Tolani olowu, the last thing he remembered was the flames which were burning him before a bright light enveloped him and he felt his consciousness dissapear, he had no doubts that he was already dead but all of a sudden, a suction force appeared out of nowhere and began to drag him towards it, Tolani tried to resist but the attraction only grew stronger and stronger until he couldn't fight against it anymore, soon he was sucked into it and he immediately felt a great weight covering him, his entire body was stiff and he was unable to move like something was pressing down on him, his breath became rapid as he felt he was losing air, slowly his eyes began to close once more as his consciousness threatened to leave him but he was soon jolted awake, his chest began to become hotter and hotter until soon his entire body was filled with sweat and his chest began glowing and he felt the weight that had been pressing upon him explode, sand scattered all over the place and tolani immediately stood up, he looked around him and noticed he was standing in a forest and the place he just jumped out from was a hole, it seemed he had been buried underground, the sand was the weight which was crushing down on him earlier, the only clothing he had on him was a wrapper which was tied up like a pampers to cover his private part, Tolani looked around him in curiosity, he could not put his fingers on it but there was something strange going on, he had definetely died when the library burnt down earlier so what was going on, he had a look of confusion on his face as he muttered to himself "This couldn't be heaven, could it?" He immediately shook his head as he came to that notion, while he wasn't a evil person when he was alive, he couldn't be said to be a saint either, so him going to heaven was a bit far fetched and besides everything around him felt more like he was still alive rather than heaven, but his thoughts were suddenly interrupted by the intense feeling of thirst which assaulted him, he looked around him and it seemed lady luck was on his side as he found a lake flowing near him, he immediately ran towards it and without thinking, he plunged his entire head into the water and took a big gulp of water, he finally lifted his head out when he had his feel, he then looked towards the sky and let out a long exhale, this water had to be the freshest water he had ever tasted, it was free of pollution and anything dirty, he was about to plunge his head back into the water when he stopped, a look of bewilderment and confusion appeared on his face.
Looking into the water below, he saw a face, a face that seemed to move exactly when he moved and even make the same expression he did, he looked behind him to make sure no one was there and then looked at the face in the water again and began making some weird faces, if anyone saw him at this moment, they would think he was weird and would probably avoid him, tolani then realized he wasn't mistaken, the face in the water was clearly him but it wasn't his face, it was an entirely different person, He was a light skinned person before but this face in front of him was chocolate, the hair on his head was plaited into two big braids on the middle part extending down to his neck while the side of the hair were shaved off, at the end of the braids were two shell like things which served as a design of sorts and his face, there was no way this could be him because he was not as handsome as this before, if someone saw this face, they would automatically assume he was a model because the face was way too handsome, his body also had several marks which seemed like tribal tatoos, this was him and at the same time, it wasn't him, He sat down beside the lake and began to think as he said "There was no doubt about it, i died when the library caught fire,what is going on here..." He immediately stopped in the middle of his sentence as a theory came to mind, he had read some japanese Mangas and novels which dealt with something like this, at first he tried to tell himself it wasn't possible but the more he thought about it, the more he felt it was the truth, there was no doubt about it, he had been reincarnated into another person's body and if he followed the logic of those Japanese novels, he would have been reincarnated in another world, a long sigh escaped his lips as he said to himself "Four years, four fucking years of going to that university and i still died in a fire, well it's not like anyone is going to miss me anyways."
Tolani was the second son of an oil tycoon in Nigeria, his parents were rich and it wasn't an exaggeration to say he had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth but what people didn't know was that he was a bastard son, his father had been drunk one night and came home to see the maid who was cleaning the house, he raped her and nine months later, Tolani was born, his mother had died at child birth and in order to prevent the scandal from spreading, his father bribed a few people and told the world tolani was the second son his wife had given birth to. Everyday was hell for the young boy, his step mother seemed to enjoy torturing him and so did his elder brother, his father constantly made it clear that he was not interested in him and he was just the result of a drunken mistake, the only thing he had ever received from his father was the grace of him studying abroad, his father agreed because it was a way to send him out of the house and honestly he was happy as well, at least this way, he can be away from that family. Tolani majored in history and was on his last semester before he graduated but someone had set the library he was in on fire and as a result, he died.
Throwing those useless thoughts out of his mind, He looked at the water again wanting to see his face but this time he noticed something on his chest, it was a tatoo of a cube with mystical patterns around it, there were other tatoos on his body but this one had caught his attention simply because he had seen that cube before, it was always in the library of the university along with other ancient artifacts from africa, it was like a mini museum within the library of the university, according to the school, the artifact originated from a god in an ancient african empire, he had always seen it as a bunch of rubbish, but now that same aritifact had appeared on his chest, he suddenly recalled that his chest had been glowing before the sand which had buried him scattered, he then thought to himself "This thing couldn't be related to me reincarting, could it." But before he had time to verify his thoughts, a scream suddenly came from behind him, he immediately turned around to see a young girl looking at him with a look of fear, shock and confusion in her eyes before she turned around and fled while screaming "Oku o, egbami" Tolani looked at her with one of his eyebrows raised as he said "she couldn't be talking about me, could she." He recognized the language which she spoke, it was his native language in Nigeria, yoruba and what she said had translate to "Dead person, please help me."