"You're okay." Elliott leans back into his own space with a smile. "All I know about my past self was that I had a lot of friends. I guess that hasn't changed- like your love to play music hasn't changed. Maybe one day when you pick up the bass, you'll be a natural at it."

That might almost prove something, even.

"I could almost accept it, you know. Reincarnation. No one really knows what happens when we die. But.. that definitely was a different world, and that's the bit I'm stuck on."

He turns back to his laptop. "Yggdrasil is said to connect nine worlds. And our world, called Midgard, is one of them. A multiverse. Isn't that too crazy to be real? How did I get here, if I'm from another world?"