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The dark fingers of the feared demon called Death, Blindly groping, searching, groping, hunting, Cruelly snatched up a beloved friend... "No, no!"cried his loved ones, "You are but a heartless monster. Give him back, what do you want of him?" "We need him, we love him a lot! Without him, our existence is obscured! Please! Don't take him away from us!" But Death only laughed and said, "I care not who loves him, for I love him more! He is mine now; he is now a part of me." Hearing this, they all began to weep, "How can this be? Why is this happening? Is there nothing we can do to get him back?" Said the devil in reply,"If you wish it so much, I will grant him rebirth: Yes, he will be born again. I will give him his existence again. " They were all thrilled, they all rejoiced. "We will soon be together again! We are getting back our dear friend!" "I said I will give him existence, not his old human form!" Death interjected on hearing this. "He will be reborn as a child, and only I know where." "I know not if he will like his new life, If he will be happy again," it added, Then raised Its arm to grant this promised boon. "Wait!" said the friends realizing their folly. "Don't send him back, don't make him start over! that is not a boon, that is a curse!" "Why? Don't you want your friend to be alive? Are you quite certain you don't want him on earth?" Death mocked, slightly lowering its raised arm. "No, no", they said, "Send him to heaven, He deserves that, it will make him happy, Wishing him back to suffer, it's a cruel wish to make." "Heaven? What is that?" the Creature laughed again. "Dying leads man to me, and I am just a void! I become whatever you wish me to be." "There is no paradise, there is no Hades, There is just your heart and your mind, Only they guide you through the mystery that is me!" the friends nodded, understanding at last. "Very well", said Death,"your friend will stay with me. He will be fine, he will get a well-deserved rest." "I will love him as I love myself, for he and I are one now. i bid you well, i bid you goodbye, We will meet again, never to part after that."