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did it come from?” John asked.
    “Inside you, around you.”
    John was confused. “I don’t have that inside me,” he replied, shaking his head. “Plus I could hear others with me.”
    “It will all become clear soon,” Christopher replied. “You are dreaming, but I am real. It was decided that you would listen to me in your dreams, especially if we broke your suffering momentarily. I can turn it back, John. I can take you back to the day before Jason died, let you live it again.”
    John shook his head. He didn’t understand. He didn’t want to. He tried to force himself awake just like he had done many times when he knew he was dreaming, but this time it wouldn’t work.
    Christopher spoke again. “Imagine going back to that day, just before it happened. Wouldn’t you do it differently? Wouldn’t you want your life back? Wouldn’t you want Jason back?”
    “What the hell is this?” John shouted. “Suppose you could do this. Why? Do I have to sell my soul? Is this one of those things where I have to pass it on like in the movies? Bullshit!”
    Christopher remained calm. “Jason was never supposed to die. Not yet. Sometimes things happen out of order. Sometimes they are interfered with, but it can’t be undone by us. It has to be undone by you.”
    “Who’s us?” John asked.
    “Helpers,” Christopher replied. “There’s a natural order of things, and sometimes those who want to disrupt this order make little alterations by encouraging certain people. In this case, Jason’s death was the result, and it’s not right.”
    “Are you saying demons or devils or something interfering, because if you are...”
    Christopher interrupted. “There is dark and light. There is good and bad and a higher power at play. You’ve heard the phrase ‘a necessary evil’?”
    John nodded.
    “Well, it’s true. Evil is necessary for the balance of things. Evil is necessary to guide people to good, to justify good, and sometimes some people, by choice or by design, are attracted to do evil things. In this case, an evil force had a hand in things, but you can change it.”
    John scoffed. “I’m sure there are more important things for ‘good’ to fix than the death of my son. What about wars? What about starving children, murders, genocides, infanticides, incest, rapes, beatings?”
    “Don’t underestimate what one small break in the chain can cause. Yes, there are many bad things happening in the world every day, every minute, every second. All I can tell you is everything happens for a reason. Everything affects an individual’s growth. Everybody is tested and everybody faces judgment. We can’t control everybody’s actions, but we can give chances to those who deserve it.”
    “You still haven’t told me who ‘we’ is,” John said.
    “Light,” Christopher replied. “Hope. Strength. Peace.” He moved a bit closer. “You are in hell, John. Jason’s death has far wider implications than you, his mother and your family.”
    “Thank God this is a dream,” John muttered. He tried again to will himself awake, but he remained where he was. He didn’t exactly like his life outside of his sleep, but he wasn’t interested in this crap.
    “I can see you don’t believe me, John,” Christopher said. “Remember when you stole that orange from someone’s tree when you were nine, walking home from the movies? Remember how it clouded over and started to pour rain as soon as you stole it, and then you choked on the first bite? Remember how you couldn’t breathe and you thought you were going to die right there in the rain with no one around you?
    “How do you know that?” John asked.
    “Remember how you heard a voice in your head that told you the lesson was: everything you do has a consequence, and affects not only you but others? You have remembered that lesson all of your life, even though you have forgotten it recently.”
    John didn’t answer.
    “Here’s the reality John. When you walked home