I know you even if you don't know. We were together since the dawn of time. It's always been like this (quote from a song).

Caution: smoking scenes

We are in the year 2536. The world is completely changed. Earth is left behind, badly polluted, with its economy collapsed and with endless wars. Many planets and satellites are terraformed and inhabited, with a booming economy. They became new, independent states, since 2450. Humans are now spreading even beyond the Solar System. The most important thing has become human life. All new states are fighting to attract new settlers, to increase their population and boost their economies.

Many students from Earth are offered free access to universities throughout the Solar System. But, going there, means that you close all connections to your parents and everyone else on Earth. Usually, children don't want to go, but their parents force them, to have a better life on the New Worlds. This is exactly what happened to our two heroes, Julia and David. They had good marks and were offered free places at the Galileo university on Callisto, Jupiter. Forced by their parents against their own will, both children had to accept.

Life in Jupiter Federation is different from life on Earth. Low gravity affects you. The air is always wet, the sky is cloudy. The Sun barely shines. It is never hot and never cold. But the major difference for a newcomer is to break all connections to the past. It is hard, almost impossible, to send or receive something from Earth, because Earth is under embargo, caused by endless wars there. Most children suffer from depression and try to isolate themselves. They follow a hermit life: school, eating room, then back to their rooms. Each student has its own room, which increases the isolation of each one. But, behind closed doors, each one creates its own world.

What happened to Julia and David. They spent the first year getting average marks at school and avoiding to spend time with other children. At that time, they had no idea one about the existence of the other. The first time, they met in the second year. Until then, they avoided to talk with others. How they met and how they became close friends, let's ask them:

Julia's story

When I arrived here, I found myself like in a working camp for robots. Each one was following its own route, nobody cared about anyone else. I was hitting people on the way, as they walked like if they were remote controlled. It was impossible for me to make friends. There were many colleagues from Earth which were looking on how to steal something from you. Local children were looking for parties. Cloned children were all looking the same. Some guys were looking after me, trying to sleep with me. So, I said to myself: "Focus, Julia! Keep distance from all of them and follow your own road!" So, I ended-up with a simple life, looking like this: school, eating room, home. Nothing else. My world was in my room. There, I could be anything I wanted. Some guys had too much testosterone. I always avoided them.

Then came the day I found this guy. He was a guy at that time, later he changed gender, just as I changed too. That day, for unknown reasons, I did not go to the eating room. After school, I remained on a bench in the park. I was sitting there. I can remember to this day that I was thinking about Earth and the world I left behind, about my parents and my neighbors. Two girls asked me to come with them for a walk in the park. I refused.

When... David, as he was called at that time, came, I don't remember. He was sitting on another bench in front of me. I could see that he was sometimes looking at me, always hiding his eyes from mine. I also felt like I knew him. But how could that be possible? There was no way for me to know him. What got my attention were his gestures. He was holding his hands together, just like a woman. I said to myself that it is impossible for me to know him. Again,what got my attention to him, was his hair. He had a long, dark brown hair, painted, not natural. As he was hiding his eyes from me, I noticed he was playing with his hair, like a woman.

Then, I made a small noise and he looked at me. Our eyes met and he smiled. I smiled too. He tried to say something and I invited him to sit on the bench near me. Don't ask me why. I just did. It was like I found an old friend, even if I never seen him before.

Then, he offered me a cigarette. I accepted, even if at that time I didn't smoke. I've seen other students learning to smoke, how they cough and sometimes get tears in their eyes. Not for me. I smoked naturally, like if I smoked before.

Something told me that I can trust him. So, we started to talk. We talked for hours, until we could no longer speak. Our throats were not used to talk much. I remember even to this day what we were talking. It was not about school or where we are from, it was about anything else. Until then, I never accepted to talk more then a few words with anyone on Callisto.

At some point, colleagues came and seen me. I remember a girl saying:

"Oh my gosh! Julia is with a guy! How could that be possible?"

"She is smoking!" said a guy, hitting his face with his hands, like not believing this is happening.

We decided to meet tomorrow too. It was tomorrow when we found out that we both came from Earth and we both are in the second grade, but at different profiles. Much more shocked were my classmates. They asked me to smoke in front of them, so they could believe I am with someone. The world believed we were in love, but in fact, it was different. It was a strong friendship, but only a platonic relation.

David's Story

You ask me how I found Julia? First thing, I need to tell you how I was feeling at that time. When I arrived to Callisto, I felt into a big depression. Suddenly, I was alone, away from my parents and friends. It was very crowded, but I was feeling so lonely. That depression made me isolate myself. Classmates were laughing at me, because I never wanted to hangout with them. A bully even used to hit me. One day, someone dropped eggs in my hair. At that time, I discovered that I felt much more comfortable in the skin of a woman. I had good marks at school, but in the rest, everyone avoided me and I avoided to talk with anyone.

From school, I always went directly to eating room and then to my room. I avoided at all possible staying outside.

At that day, I felt the need to stop on a bench in the park. I don't know why. I always avoided the park and its jerks. Julia was just in front of me. I don't remember how she got there or if she came before or after me. She was sitting there, in front of me. At first, I did not bother to look at her. Why should I? There are many girls at the University. Seducing a girl, was something I never tried since I left Earth. I thought it would be quite impossible.

So, I avoided her, until I've seen her feet. She had sandals, low, flat sandals. Her toenails were painted with a demi-opaque light pink color, which got my attention. It is true that sometimes I used to look from distance at girls, but I never tried to enter in contact with one of them. But this time, it was like if I've seen these toes before. I was fighting with my self-defense instinct, which was shouting at me: "Leave this place! Get back to your room!" There was another force which was pushing me to stay and watch her.

As I was watching her feet, trying at all costs to avoid getting her attention, she popped a bubble of gum. I noticed before she was chewing gum and making bubbles, but this time, the noise made me look directly to her. In any other case, I would turn back and go, but this time, I didn't. Instead, she smiled and I smiled to her.

There was something familiar about her. It was like I knew her, even if it was impossible. But still, my conservation instinct wanted me to leave. How could I solve the problem? I tried to give her something. The only thing I had, was a pack of cigarettes. Nobody at school knew at that time that I smoke. Even my parents on Earth never found out about this. So, I gave her a cigarette and she accepted it. At that time, I had no idea that she was not a smoker.

This is how it all started. Then, we talked for hours. We started a conversation about sandals and gum chewing, then we talked about quite everything. I remember the next day, colleagues laughing at me and saying:

"Hey, that dork was trying to seduce a girl. Can you believe it?"

"Leave her, she is not for you. Your only girlfriend will be your right hand".

Narrator speaking

The two became close friends from that day. Even if in the eyes of the others it appeared that they were in love, in reality it was a very strong friendship and nothing more. Years passed and they remained close friends.

**********

At the University, both were at different profiles. They decided to join a psychology club in order to spend some time together. It was not a class they enjoyed, they did it only to be together more time. And at some point, their professor started talking about reincarnations.

Their professor is an aged man, with much experience, which passed the retiring age.

A student: "I went on a vacation to Saturn and when I visited its rings, I had the feeling I've been there before. Could it be that I went there in another life?"

Professor: "Could be. But you must be sure it really is a memory from another life and not something from your sub-consciousness. It happens many times that we associate something we've seen early, even in our childhood, with something we see today".

Another student: "I went to a hypnosis session and I revealed I was the reincarnation of an old king from the 1500's".

Professor: "I don't say that it is not possible, but you should be cautious. Many people during hypnosis reveal that they were important leaders, scientists, artists or great priests. This cannot be possible. Most of us were average humans".

First student: "How can that be possible? People don't lie during hypnosis!"

Professor: "I believe the explanation is another one. Some events get into a collective database, which can be accessed by everyone in a sub-consciousness state. I strongly recommend people to avoid hypnosis to see their past lives and get connected to a supercomputer, which analyses all neural activity. There, you can separate interferences and memories from this life".

Third student: "But it is very expensive".

Professor: "I know, but it is the best way to know the truth".

A fourth student: "What will happen if we meet someone in this life, who we met in another life? How would we know?"

Professor: "You will know. Be sure of this. It is like you knew the other person. Souls tend to reincarnate in bulks, so that our best friends were also our friends before. Sometimes, after they've seen each other only once, two people become close friends, while other times they are neighbors and don't talk one with each other for years".

Second student: "Like these two (pointing at Julia and David), they've seen each other and formed a couple".

Professor: "Like them. It is highly possible. And there is something else, that people don't speak often about. Between lives, souls stay in another world, where many things happen. Sometimes, before coming to our world, they set reference points, so that they will meet one with the other. And this is just what happens. Reference points are somewhere in our sub-consciousness written. We don't remember them, but we do as they tell us. For example, a man told a woman to wear a big necklace in the first day they will meet and this is just how it happened. Both set many agreements so that they will meet each other".

After the class, both Julia and David came to the professor, to ask more about this subject. He answered:

"What you describe is a sign that you both knew each other before. I strongly believe that you (pointing to David) asked her to wear sandals and make a bubble of gum the first day you will meet. And you (pointing to Julia) asked David to play with his hair and to give you a cigarette. All happened before you went to the world, in the world of souls. But I don't know for sure. Nobody knows. Even supercomputers sometimes come with a margin of errors. Well, Nick, my assistant, is working on a PHD about life between reincarnations. I will arrange a meeting with you and him, tomorrow. If you want, our supercomputer will analyze you both and you will know what happened. All for free".

They all agree. Reading your past lives with a supercomputer costs about five salaries. It takes only ten minutes, but it can reveal more information then a thousand hypnosis sessions.

Loneliness is the key to discover your true self (quote from a hermit).

Caution: smoking scenes

A lonely person evolves different from someone who lives with many others. It doesn't require to be a hermit on top of a mountain. You can live a lonely life in a crowded city. While the mainstream population is influenced by others, a lonely person develops a different personality, strongly influenced by its own self. Elements from a past life are far more easy to discover at lonely people.

It is Friday noon at the Galileo university on Callisto, Jupiter. Classes end-up early this day. Many students, looking for fun, rush to finish what they are doing, to get enough time for a party. Most teachers go home. In the weekend, usually only students that are from other planets remain around... and they know it is their time to have fun. Not the same can be said about our two heroes, David and Julia. This evening, their psychology teacher will connect them to a supercomputer to reveal their past lives.

The two finish their last class, then meet in the park, on the bench where they met the first time. David wears a white coat, with grey trousers and grey shoes. His long brown, painted hair, gives him somehow a feminine look, even if his clothes are those of a man. Julia wears a white, knee-long dress, with a white sweater. Even if it's a bit cold and the air is wet, she wears her sandals, with no pantyhose and no socks on.

In the 2500's, there is a major difference between men and women clothes. Women clothes are elastic, they copy the form of your body. Many call them 'elastic membranes'. They are made of a material similar to what was used in the 2000's for leggings and tights. Some are translucent, some are completely opaque. Girls use to layer translucent clothes for their hands and feet, with opaque ones that cover intimate areas. Even skirts and dresses are elastic. To keep them in place, they are fixed on the feet with laces. This comes with a big advantage. Depending on where you want to fix your laces, higher or lower on your feet, you can make your dress longer or shorter.

Men clothes are not elastic and are more baggy. They don't copy the form of your body and are never translucent. Unlike in the 2000's, men do wear skirts. This became a common trend after humans colonized the warm Mercury and Venus, where settlers encountered high temperature variations. However, men skirts are never elastic. Also, men copied the fashion to paint their hair and nails. It is no longer like in the 2000's, when women used to have long hair and men short hair. In the 2500's, men have a more voluminous hair then women, while women use to fix their hair in a ponytail.

They sit on the bench and light a cigarette. Julia found smoking to be so natural for her, like if she smoked before. It only took a week until she found out that she is hooked. After taking the first drag from her cigarette, she says:

"I am sure that I smoked in my past life. Many colleagues needed weeks, even months to start. For me, it was all so natural, like if I did before".

"Do you believe the theory of reincarnation?" asks David. "I am skeptic about it".

"Why?" asks Julia, with her cigarette between her lips.

"First of all, most people who were hypnotized, said they were kings, big priests, scientists or military leaders. I don't believe that. I think, if it is true that we reincarnate, that most of us were just average people, as we are today".

"Yes, that is a good argument", replies Julia, looking how David plays with his hair.

"Secondly, I completed a few times an online quiz", says David, looking at Julia's feet. "They gave me different results, all of them saying that I was a man who knows where, in places I have no connection with".

"Is that the reason why you don't believe?"

David takes a deep inhale from his cigarette, still looking at Julia's feet, then speaks, mixing words with smoke:

"If I had a past life, I think I was a woman. But, as far as I know, souls follow the same gender as they reincarnate".

These words make Julia so surprised, that she almost coughs as she takes a new drag of smoke.

"A woman?" she says. "Why?"

"You know that bully?" says David.

"Yes. Why?"

"He says that I am gay. But I am not. I feel no attraction to guys at all. He says that I move like a sissy".

Julia smiles, then says:

"Yes, you move like a sissy. I noticed from the first time. The way you keep your hands together, the way you keep your cigarette, the way you walk. When you walk the stairs, you move like a woman wearing shoes with heels".

David looks shocked and a bit disappointed.

"Maybe you were a woman in your last life", says Julia, looking at her cigarette, which is almost finished. "Did you ever find attraction to women clothes? Like the desire to wear them?"

David looks down. He has the face of a thief trying to hide his capture.

"Please, don't hide anything from me", says Julia. "I did not hide anything from you, ever".

"Yes", says David. "I did, when I was on Earth. I did wear women clothes, candid in my room".

Julia looks at him, thinking for a while, then she decides to light another cigarette. She gives David one too.

"You?" asks David.

"I don't know", says Julia. "I feel comfortable both in men and women clothes. Maybe I were a hermaphrodite".

They both laugh at this, like at a good joke.

"You never identified something at you that might belong to the other gender?" asks David.

"Well, once, I did. My brother used to watch porn on our computer. One day, he forgot it on and I took a look at what he was watching. There, I found a shemale. She was a woman in all aspects, only that she had a penis. I thought 'Wow, I would like to be like that'. Her image remained in my memories for almost an year. I opened the computer many times in secret, to see more. Well, when I found out that most shemales are actually men, I stopped".

"Maybe you were a shemale", says David with a smile.

"Maybe, or maybe not", answers Julia, with a sad voice. "I play with a shemale character in VirtualLife".

"You play in VirtualLife?" asks David amazed. "I play too".

"Let me guess", says Julia, with a smile. "With a woman avatar?"

"Yes. Her name is Diana".

The two laugh a bit, as they light a new cigarette. Two guys come. One of them looks at David and says:

"Hey buddy, you know Monday we have a test. Help me!"

"No problem, George", answers David. "Just sit behind me and copy what I write. I won't let you down".

"Just be careful with those cigarettes, you two! You will burn the whole University!" answers the other guy, as they are leaving.

"Believe me", says George to the other guy, "these two weirdos will blow the world. Newton, Einstein, Lawrence, Campman and Amsir were all weirdos and boxing bags for bullies in school".

"What a fuck?" says the other guy. "These two dorks? I can tie their guts on the roof if they cause any trouble. Better this way then to have another idiot to learn about".

"So please be gentle while I crush the sky!" says George, laughing.

**********

When time comes, David and Julia go to the Psychology sector. There, their professor with his assistant, Nick, are waiting them. Outside, it is getting windy. Dark clouds are starting to be seen and soon it starts raining. This is an atmospheric cooling effect, which occurs on planets and moons far from the Sun. A cold mass of air passes through the greenhouse layer, cooling the lower atmosphere and creating a big storm. Temperatures will fall dramatically, then, for 10 to 20 days, the sky will be clear blue.

As they arrive, it is already raining and very cold. Julia is shaking, both of emotions and of cold, as her feet are getting wet. David gives her a cigarette to gain some courage. Lightning covers the sky, which became dark.

The professor appears and invites them inside. It is a room full with equipment, computers, 3D diagrams, screens and lots of glowing wires. Inside, there are four seats like those used by dentists for their patients, only that they have cuffs for hands and feet. On one chair is a girl, connected to a lot of wires and sensors. Nick, the assistant, appears from behind. He is a black man, with a shiny black coat on.

"At last!" he says, shaking his hands, as thunders disturb the silence. "Please, take a seat, both of you. Our supercomputer will reveal your past lives with an accuracy of 97%. It will only take ten minutes. Take your shoes off and uncover your abdomens!"

Without a question, they take a seat. Nick himself removes David's shoes and exposes his belly. When he comes to Julia, he does not take off her sandals. Then, Nick adds a lot of sensors to their fingers and toes, to their abdomens and puts a helmet on their heads, covering both hair and faces.

"Who is she?" asks the professor, looking at the woman occupying a seat.

"She is Alessandra, my girlfriend", says Nick. I try to heal her brain, you know her problem".

"Ah, ok", says the professor. "Are all sensors and connectors in position?"

"Yes", says Nick.

"Good. Then, turn it on!" says the professor, approaching to the two. "You will lose consciousness for ten minutes, then feel some sort of amnesia for a while. Don't worry, this machinery will extract all possible data. When I went in, I got over 500 pages of results".

"I turn it on!" says Nick, pushing a big button.

The next second, both Julia and David fall like in a deep sleep. The many screens and 3D diagrams start to show a lot of data. But, unknown to the Professor, Nick tries to steal some knowledge from the two, to help his girlfriend pass the exams. Well, this takes only ten seconds to happen and Alessandra wakes-up.

"Filtering sub-consciousness interferences on!" says Nick. "Residual knowledge blocked. Connections with universal database blocked. What we get now, should only be data from before their birth".

On a screen, data starts to appear. Each past life is counted. The computer checks with historical databases, to see if those people really existed. Data does match 95%. The last reincarnations appear on display. Many more past lives are revealed.

Suddenly, other data appears. This is from between reincarnations, from the world of souls.

"This is unbelievable!" says the professor. "These two spent more time there then anyone else! I wonder why".

"Professor, look!" says Nick, looking at other data. "They've always been together. It appears that in every life they found each other. Or if not, they never chosen anyone".

"Wow! This is the best proof that souls reincarnate in bulks!"

The list of their past lives is now visible. The computer shows name and gender.

"Surprisingly", says the professor, "most people follow a strict gender line. Men reincarnate as men, women as women. But look at this! Gender: male, gender: female, gender: female, then again, gender: male. And look at this! Gender: ERROR!"

That error was Julia's last life. Other errors appear too.

"Transgender people?" asks the professor.

"Could be", answers Nick.

"I am amazed! It is the first time when I find this! Let's try to get more data. It will take weeks to study all this".

"My PHD thesis will be brilliant!" smiles Nick, looking at all the monitors.

The process should last only 10 minutes, but after half an hour, both are still inside. The computer gathers less and less info each time. Many memories from past lives are revealed and not only.

In this time, Alessandra unties herself from the chair and gets to the door, to smoke a cigarette. Anywhere in the Solar System, including the Jupiter federation, states fight against alcohol and drugs. Since 2473, all political leaders concluded that they must leave an addiction available for people, in order to counter consumption of more dangerous drugs. So, they disabled the smoking ban, in a desperate attempts to stop consumption of other, more dangerous substances.

Alessandra listens how the professor and Nick are talking. She knows Julia, as she is in the same class. She hates Julia and all library rats.

"Look!" says the professor. "He was a graduate in Geology, one of the best students in 2000's and she graduated the railway university two years later! Two hundred years later, they were also good students! I see them in 2300's, in a protest against alcohol".

For Alessandra, this is enough. She hates good students, mostly library rats and book grinders. And more then everything, she is an alcohol addict. She hates Julia even more, since Julia is in the same class.

"Last time, you did not whisper me anything, bitch!" mumbles Alessandra. "I failed an exam because of you. Time to die, you, whore!"

The professor moves to a small screen, where he can see how all data is compressed into a big folder. Nick goes to the door to light a cigarette and says:

"Alessandra, when you see a red message on the screen, saying 'complete', push the big red button, to release these two".

"Right!" answers Alessandra, with a big smile.

In fact, she pushes the command named 'consciousness insertion'. She knows well what this does. It inserts data to the brain. This is how she copied at her exams many times, with the help of a student who went here. But, inserting too much data in a brain, in the consciousness part, can fry all synapses.

"Die, bitch!" she whispers. "Just die!"

Suddenly, David and Julia start twitching on their chairs, even moaning. And when Nick comes, he calls the professor immediately.

"Look!" Nick says. "We passed the soul firewall! Data is downloading even faster and with more accuracy then ever! Their souls are not opposing resistance at all!"

"This is impossible!", says the professor. "Somehow, their consciousness and sub-consciousness parts of the brain are now connected. I am afraid they will remember their past lives just like current life. It happened once".

"Yes, with Lisa. But she died a week later".

The computer then starts to beep an alarm. Data processing is too fast. It cannot work like this. One after another, all screens start beeping alarms.

"Stop the process!" says the professor.

Nick hurries to stop the devices. The whole supercomputer is blocked. Too much information received in a few seconds... and their souls are pumping more and more data out. Screens are displaying Cyrillic letters now. All alarms are ringing and all screens show images that were never seen. Images, memories from their lives. A lake, a mountain, a war, a kiss, all random. Nick watches scared, desperately trying to command the machinery to stop. Alessandra is out, smoking another cigarette and laughing.

Then, the main supercomputer is on fire. Screens crash, 3D screens explode and one second later the building is off power.

Nick looks scared, not knowing what to do. Alessandra leaves the building, laughing. The professor checks their necks for pulse.

"Don't look at me, call a doctor!" says the professor. "They are still alive... I hope".

While Nick hurries to the university medical center, the professor takes all sensors off, trying to release the two. He fights to carry them out of the room which is now on fire. All data was lost.

**********

Ten days later, Julia and David wake-up in the medical center. They are perfectly healthy, but not remembering anything. They feel like only a second passed.

Later, things will change and they will discover things they never imagined.

When the truth is too hard to accept, it waits you until you are ready to receive it (a wise man).

Caution: smoking scenes, isolated erotic scenes

Two years passed since Julia and David tried to reveal their past lives with the help of a supercomputer. In that day, the computer exploded, being unable to work with so many data that their souls were uploading into the system. The professor explained that each soul has some sort of firewall, which protects memories from past lives to be revealed. Once you completely break the firewall, a soul should operate much better then the most powerful supercomputer ever created.

And this is just what happened. Unfortunately, all data was lost. David and Julia survived and completely recovered, after ten days of coma in the university hospital. The professor told them all he remembered: that they've been always together, in almost all their past lives and that they changed genders many times in past. He also shown them that many times the computer could not determine their genders, sending an error message.

Many of their colleagues concluded that the computer crashed because David and Julia were the 'errors', something the machinery was not made to deal with. So, they both started to be nicknamed 'error' by their classmates.

Nevertheless, their friendship got stronger by the day. It was a very powerful friendship, but nothing more then a platonic relationship.

Now, they are in the fourth year, approaching the fifth, final year at Galileo university on Callisto, Jupiter. The year is 2538.

David is a guy, but he has many girly elements in his behavior. His gestures, the way he moves, the way he walks, are all similar to what one would expect for a woman. Because of this, before he found Julia, many bullies at school said that David was gay or a sissy.

He also has an attraction for women clothes. Back on Earth, he used to wear them candid, when he was alone at home. He wanted to buy some women clothes and to wear them candid too, here, in his room, but he never had the courage. First of all, he thought that if any guy will find out, they will make fun of him. Secondly, since he was with Julia, he thought that she will be disappointed to hear about this.

**********

One day, they are walking together on a street, after school. Julia sees a shop and wants to enter. They both go inside. There are many clothing items. Julia looks after some textures that can be uploaded on her outfit.

In the 2500's, most clothes are electronic and can emulate various textures. You just upload a texture or design it with an electronic pencil if you know how. She is wearing an elastic blouse-pants. Most women clothes come like this, they are made of a single part, elastic and able to copy the whole shape of the body. Because they are elastic, they are designed to be fixed with small laces. You can make your sleeves longer or shorter. Also, you can make them cover more or less of your feet. She chosen to have longer sleeves, but to fix the 'pants' part just below her knees. She also wears sandals, exposing her toes.

Julia looks at various textures, then choses one. She connects the plug-in of her cloth to the vendor machine, pays and uploads the new texture. In a few seconds, her blouse-pants changes color to the new design, white and with colored flowers on it.

"How do I look?" she asks David.

But David is looking at an all-in-one, very concentrated. Julia realizes this. She comes to David and says:

"Are you ok?"

"I think I were a woman in my past life", says David.

Julia sees the all-in-one items, exposed in a vending machine. She thinks for a moment, then says:

"I don't like the all-in-one, it completely covers your feet, including your toes. I like to feel the air through my toes".

David keeps looking at the all-in-one and says:

"I worn one, once, on Earth".

"I know", says Julia. "You told me".

"And I felt so comfortable, like I always did".

"Do you want to wear one again?" asks Julia, very serious.

"I don't know", answers David. "Yes, I would like, but... only when I am alone, in my room".

"That would be funny", answers Julia with a smile.

"To be honest", continues David, "I always wanted to buy one, but I was afraid that someone will see me. I've been a boxing sac for too many bullies".

Julia gets to the vending machine and pays for one.

"Here you are!"

**********

An all-in-one is a complete outfit made by a single cloth, for women. It is elastic. When you open it from its box, you have the impression it will only fit a baby. It is somehow similar to what was known in the 2000's as zentai or bodystockings, only that it lets your head and hands uncovered. It is completely opaque and also has a skirt, part of the same piece of cloth. For the feet, the part that touches the ground, a stronger material is used, so that you can walk without shoes.

The sleeves have small laces, which allows you to fix them higher or lower, exposing more or less of your arms. Another lace is at the neck, which allows you to fix the costume upper or lower. The last laces are fixing the skirt to your feet. Without them, the skirt will tend to rise too high. The most elastic part is the skirt, which can be stretched down to your ankles. It is so elastic that when you stand, it copies the form of your feet, but it allows you to walk without any problem.

When you put them on, you squeeze yourself in through the neck, first getting your feet in. Then, after you fix your feet inside, you continue with your stomach and all the way up. The last to get in, are your hands. If you need to go to the bathroom, the costume can be opened at your crotch. However, you can squeeze yourself out only through the neck.

David's story

How was it the first time I worn an all-in-one? It was an amazing feeling. I was looking at me and touching my body, thinking that I look so close to a woman. I remember that I had an erection, as I usually had when wearing women's clothes. It was a great feeling. I used to sleep with them on. My parents never found out. Early in the morning, I used to take it off, before changing to my normal clothes. The all-in-one has all you need to become a woman.

But this time, it was different. I took the box, then go to my room. I put it into a bag, so that other students will not see it. I was afraid that a bully might try to look inside, take it and then make fun of me. But none of these happened. I managed to go to my room without interacting with anyone.

I entered my room and locked the door. I felt so much tension, that I could feel my heart pumping like wild. I could hear my blood rushing in my whole body.

After I checked that nobody could see me through the window, I decided to undress and put on the all-in-one. I was very anxious, carefully listening to neighbors. In another room, music was playing. Students listen music all the time. From time to time, someone passed on the corridor.

"Well", I said to myself, "it is now or never".

So, I took all my clothes off. Completely naked, I started to put the all-in-one on. First the feet, then rise it up over my stomach, then over my chest, all the way to my neck. Then I squeeze my hands in. Finally, I tie the laces. I fix the skirt just above my knees.

Since no texture was uploaded to it yet, it was all black. But even so, I could not stop looking at myself. Women clothes are so soft compared to men clothes! It feels awesome. I kept looking at my feet, at my skirt, at my hands, how they all looked, covered with the elastic membrane.

I was rubbing one foot to the other, feeling the soft material. My hands were touching all my body, from chest to stomach. Then, I moved my hands below, touching the skirt. Suddenly, I tried to push the skirt up. It is impossible, because it is fixed on the feet with laces. Instead, I started to touch my knees.

Then, I lighted a cigarette, still thinking about how wonderful it feels and looks. I wish I were a girl, I wish I could walk with these clothes on the street.

I watched how smoke was getting into the room. It is good to open the window, or all my clothes will start to smell. So, I went to the window and opened it. From here, you can see the parking area, where many students have their hovering cars stationed. Other buildings are in front, at some distance. I moved back, to sit on the bed.

Then, suddenly, some memories started to appear in front of my eyes. I see myself as a woman. I am wearing a fur sweater. I am in my home, a wooden house. I have breasts, I feel them. Even more, I see myself wearing black, opaque tights under a knee-long skirt. I have no shoes. I see myself in the kitchen, cooking something. I see all through my eyes, but I realize it is an older woman, in her 40's or so. On a wall, it's an electronic clock. On another, it is a calendar. An Orthodox calendar, showing all saints. It is written with Cyrillic letters. The third wall hosts an icon, while the fourth wall holds a painting of me and my husband, at our wedding.

But who is the husband? I remember him. He is not completely a man, but a cross-dresser. He is... a past reincarnation of Julia! I remember. He was a man, but I did not let him to completely cross the gender barrier. I allowed him to dress as a woman, but not to go to surgery or to take hormones. I see him! He is dressed just like a woman, wearing fake breasts. He also wears a skirt and sheer pantyhose, with sandals. They are white sandals, just as Julia wears today. He looks like a woman in all aspects, only that he is a man. He has a penis. I am a woman in all aspects, born as a woman and I lived all that life as a woman.

Then, I see us both, sitting at a table. We eat, then we smoke. Outside, the sun is shining, but there still is snow. It is cold outside. We are watching TV while smoking. Everything is written with Cyrillic letters.

I remember us kissing, even making love.

But what is really shocking, is that I remember all, like it was yesterday. I can see all my past life, from when I was a little girl in school, to the moment we died of old age. I realized that we both were smokers. We smoked all that life, from a young age to the last days of our lives.

So, I was married with Julia, only that I was the woman and she was the man!

My cigarette is out. I light a new one. I look at my feet, covered with the black, opaque all-in-one. Then, I see for a few seconds another life. We are in the 2200's and we both are women, close friends. We are in a desert. I also remember both smoking. This time, everything is written in Arabic, all around us.

"For the holly name of Allah, what is in your mind?" says Julia, in Arabic.

"Women have rights!" I answer. "Where do you see in the Holly Book that women are to be sold?" I answer in the same language.

I was a Muslim? How is that possible? And how that I understand what I am saying? I never learned Arabic at all. But now, I see me as a Muslim woman, fighting for the rights of women in an Islamic state. Shocking!

Then, I run back to the past life where everything was written in Cyrillic. It was in the 2300's. I focus a bit and remember the name of the state we lived in: Ural East. It was in Siberia, not far from the Ob river. That was our last life. We had two children, two boys.

I see memories from another past life, in the 2000's. It was in the mountains, in an isolated village. Again, I am the woman and Julia is a man, which becomes a cross-dresser. And again, we are smoking together. I almost killed Julia... I mean, the man she were, because she did not want to start smoking. Even before, I see ourselves in the 1800's. This time, I was a man and she a woman. We survived one of the bloodiest events on Earth. And again, I find ourselves smoking.

But most of all, I see memories from the last past life, from the 2300's, from the state of Ural East. It was a life full with romance. We were such a powerful couple! Our children grew, got married and left the Earth to Mars and Venus, which were recently terraformed.

What an united couple we were! I remember Julia's kisses. He had two names, an official male name and an unofficial female name, which people called her on: Boris and Daria.

Now, I realize something. When I was little, I used to look on Earth maps exactly to where Ural East was. Now, that country is divided into two smaller ones. I loved to read about its history. There, in my free time, I used to knit... and in this life, once I found myself knitting, without anyone explaining me how to do it.

One last memory comes into my mind, I remember Julia (I mean Boris - Daria) saying:

"My god! It will be snowing tomorrow!"

Then, he said to a neighbor:

"You better stay here with us. Sandra will make you a hot cup of tea".

Sandra?

Now, I remember. My name was Sandra.

"My name is Sandra", I say with a loud voice.

Hope nobody heard me. Music is still playing in a nearby room. I hear someone walking on the corridor. Nobody heard.

Narrator speaking

The next day, they meet again, after classes, in the park. As they light a cigarette, as usual, David starts saying:

"You won't believe what happened to me".

"What?" asks Julia.

"I've seen our last life. We were on Earth, in the 2300's. I remembered very well. It all started after I put the all-in-one on me. I could see us together. I was a woman. I was right, I were a woman in our last life. We were married and had two boys".

"You did see us? But how?"

"I don't know how. Now, I cannot see, but once I put the all-in-one on me. I could see it all. I could see three past lives, in the 2300's, in the 2200's and in 2000's. We were always together. As a family twice and once as two sisters".

"And you were a woman?" says Julia, almost falling her cigarette from her hand. "That means I were a man".

"Not quite", answers David. "You were a cross-dresser. I remember it very well. And you also had white sandals on. We lived on Earth in Ural East".

"Do you see anything now?"

"Now? No. Once I took off the all-in-one, I could remember nothing. But I also remember something. My name is Sandra! Or, at least, was..."

"And my name?" asks Julia, surprised.

"You had two names. Boris as an official name and Daria as a woman nickname".

"Daria?" says Julia, amazed. "Daria was the first name of my avatar on VirtualWorld".

"Yes, we've been together many times. I don't know more. Maybe we were friends, a couple, maybe even parent and child. We went through many common places".

Julia looks at David, with a very puzzled face. Then, she looks at her cigarette and says:

"Was I also smoking?"

"Yes".

"And I was a cross-dresser, not a shemale".

"Well, you could pass as a shemale. You had fake breasts glued on and you were dressed exactly like a woman".

"And a penis", says Julia, thinking about the whole picture.

"Yes", answers David. "I don't want to be rude, but I remembered how we even made love together".

"Wow!" says Julia, with a big smile. "We had sex in another life? Well, in the 2300's it was still a common practice. Today, people prefer mutual masturbation instead".

"I don't lie to you! I've seen it, like it happened yesterday, only that it was 200 years ago".

"Why can't I see this too?" whispers Julia. "It must be related to your all-in-one. This opened your hidden knowledge".

"You need something similar", says David.

"Men clothes?" asks Julia. "If I were a cross-dresser, I used to wear women clothes".

"I think I know what you need".

"What?"

"A penis".

Julia twitches when she hears that.

"But how? I am a girl".

"A strap-on, I guess".

"I know what it is, but how can I get one?"

"You got me an all-in-one, I will get you a strap-on".

David takes Julia to a sex shop. They never had the courage to enter there before, but now, together, they get in. David orders one, which costs just as much as the all-in-one did.

Julia's story

I took the box containing the strap-on. I placed it into a black bag, so that others will not see me. Then, I went to my room. Honestly, I was very skeptical about this. In part, I didn't believe David that he remembered his past life and he was Sandra. Why Ural East? Is he trying to seduce me? Is he trying to push our platonic relation into something else?

After I got to my room, I did my homework, then I decided to put on the strap-on. This is something I long wanted, to have a penis. But to imagine myself as a reincarnation of a cross-dresser, this is too much. I thought that it was all my fantasy.

The strap-on has a belt that needs to be attached around your body and has a fake penis, that can be made to grow or shrink. My clothes are not made for this. So, I took off my blouse-pants and put on a dress. I arranged the strap-on in position, then fixed the skirt with its lashes on my feet, a bit higher then my knees. In the same time, I opened my computer and turned on VirtualWorld. My avatar was there, a shemale. I was looking both at me and at my avatar. There was a bulge beneath my dress.

I pushed a small button and it started to grow in size. I could see the bulge growing under my dress. I moved one hand beneath the dress, touching it.

Should I masturbate it, just as my avatar did so many times? Something tells me not to. But why not? I changed position of my lashes, so that the skirt became much smaller and the fake penis was in part visible. My feet were also visible, with my white sandals and my toes. For a moment, I thought how David was looking at my toenails the first time.

Maybe I were a cross-dresser. Why not? Even if, for a girl, to have a bulge under her skirt, is unnatural, I feel comfortable. It is like I've seen this before. I light a cigarette. With one hand I hold the cig, while with the other one, I play with the strap-on.

Then, I turn the computer off and I sit on the bed.

Suddenly, I see some memories. I see myself a bit taller then I am, wearing a red dress and smoking a cigarette. I am in a wooden house. I am dressed like a woman, but... Oh no! I have a penis beneath the dress! And I have fake breasts, glued on the skin!

As I look around, it is a day of summer. The sun is shining outside. More and more memories are getting in my mind. We have two children, Ivan and Vladimir. And we are married! David is a woman, a woman in all aspects.

How that he married me, a cross-dresser?

And it is true, David was Sandra!

I remember a day when we were in the forest. David, I mean Sandra, was sitting near a lake and we were smoking. I also had white sandals like I wear now, but with pantyhose on. He, I mean she, both me a necklace. Oh mine! And we did have sex together. We were a family. We were a family in the Siberian tundra.

I remember the long, cold and windy nights. Once, we worked a whole day to make a path through snow. At that time, we had a visitor that had to remain four days in our house, until he could live, because of the snow.

It all looks so real, just like memories from current life. Only that, they are 200 years old.

Could I see more? Further? The whole life appears in front of my eyes: how we met, how we lived together and how we died, very old. We were such a strong couple, that other people were shocked to see.

Suddenly, I see more. It was in the 2300's. I see us both in a desert town. We were two Muslim women, close friends. Again, I see us smoking, this time a narguile. I ran away from my husband, which was very violent. We fought for the rights of women in Islam... and soon after that, we got killed. Again, David was near me, but at that time he was called Aisha and was a woman.

I return to the last life, with me as a cross-dresser and he as a woman. It was such a lovely and colorful life! So many details come to my mind. We had flowers in our house. We had a hovering car parked in front, but even so, it got stuck in the snow one winter. After that, David - Sandra placed an icon in the car, to protect us.

I remember even parts of our discussions or times I talked with my parents. I remember them too! Surprisingly, I remember their language and the Cyrillic alphabet very well. That should be impossible, since there was no way for me to know it.

Wow, it was a fantastic experience! Who could imagine that I once lived in East Ural? I try to look further away into the past, but the last life comes in my mind over and over. I can only see small fragments from other lives. I focus myself and... at some point, I see that we were two men, brothers, in the 1400's.

After three hours of delighting myself with past life memories, I decide to take the strap-on off. Suddenly, I cannot see anything new. Is that how it works, like an on-off switch? I put it on again and... in a few minutes, I can see back our house in Ural East. This time, I see myself as an old person. Sandra... I mean David, has died. Children left to Venus and Mars and I died alone, in a winter.

Narrator speaking

The next day, the two meet again, after classes, in the same park where they always meet. This time, Julia changed herself to look close to the person she were. She changed her dress to red and took a very sheer pair of body membranes. in the 2500's, pantyhose no longer exist, but body membranes, which cover the whole body except for head and hands, are largely used by women. She also painted her hair blonde, how she looked like in her other life.

The two discuss for almost two hours what Julia has seen. David did not put the all-in-one on and had no vision from his past lives.

In the end, Julia says:

"You are right. You are Sandra".

Memories come to your mind when you find something related to a past experience (elementary psychology).

Caution: smoking scenes

Julia and David witnessed more experiences from their past lives. They could remember them only when they become somehow similar to how they looked in their last life. David was a woman named Sandra and he has to wear women clothes, while Julia, which were a cross-dresser, had to wear a strap-on. It never works in another way.

Until now, they never told anyone else about their experiences. But, there was one person which found out. Alessandra. One day, she was also in the park, partially drunk. She was feeling dizzy, but could hear what they were saying. Julia and David were talking about their past lives. The two remembered a time when both were brothers in medieval Serbia. At that time, David was Vuc and Julia was Milos. The two were good at school and ended-up as a doctor and a teacher.

"That is enough", thought Alessandra. "These two were always good learning and... one became a teacher? They tortured other children with this stupid school. I need to do something about them".

Alessandra went to her lover, Nick, which is an assistant at Psychology sector. Once Nick heard about this, he told the professor, which, very surprised, asked Nick to glue a microphone under the bench in the park. Alessandra insisted that, if possible, they must bring the two back to the lab, to examine them. She hoped that the new supercomputer will finally fry their brains.

On the other hand, the professor wanted to make sure the two are ok and don't experience any brain trauma after the last accident.

**********

The next day, Julia and David are back on the bench, talking about their past lives. In the Psychology department, Nick and the professor are listening:

"You won't believe this!" says Julia. "Last light, I've seen where we went after the last life. In the world of souls! You waited me there. And when we met, there were tears on our faces. I've seen our souls, made of light. They looked somehow like holograms, translucent but still real. We were so happy, that I started to cry also in reality. At that moment, where we were, we could see all our past lives like if we were looking at many TV screens".

"Wow! You did that?"

"Yes! I could also see the souls of many other people. They were all there. That place is called 'home'. It is where we come from and where we return each time. And there was something else. I've seen the soul of an alcoholic, which destroyed his life with his addiction. His wife abandoned him and he died alone in garbage. There was an angel accusing him for the bad way he spent his life".

The professor, listening this, comments:

"This is a prove that angels exist!"

"The angel, well, it looked quite like a human, but with no gender", continues Julia. "It was also made of light. They guide us through life and wait us home".

"You've seen also a devil?" asks David.

"No, Sandra", says Julia. "I mean, David. After all I've seen, I tend to call you Sandra".

"No problem, call me Sandra", says David. "I like it".

"I remember how the alcoholic was very upset", says Julia. "The angel was accusing him for the bad way he spent his life, showing him that he spent previous life in the same way. And I remember the alcoholic staying around us for a while".

"What happened to him?" says David.

"I don't remember. I do remember the huge size of the 'home'. It is immense. I think it is larger then the Solar System. Everyone sees this place different, based on what is in your soul. Hungry people see only food around and they eat until they are satisfied. I've seen it all like a huge mixture of buildings, huge spaces built of gems and precious stones, filling the whole space between a planet and another. I also remember that most souls are men or women. We are not. We are something between".

"I bet these two were transgender people in other lives", says the professor, carefully listening to the microphone.

"The angel was not so upset that guy was an alcoholic, but for all the bad things he did to the others", continues Julia. "I remember the angel saying: 'How many times you've bitten your wife? You've ruined your life, you lost your job, you sold your house for alcohol. For all these, you have to pay. And in the end, you destroyed your body. Killing your body is like killing someone else'. I wander what 'you have to pay' means".

"Were we ok, Julia?"

"Yes, Sandra. We were ok. It appears we did more good then bad things. We were ok. But that alcoholic was, I guess, in trouble".

"I have to stop Alessandra from drinking", whispers Nick.

"What I see", continues Julia, "is that not only part of our personalities pass to other lives. Also, our addictions pass through. In all lives, I found ourselves smoking, or at least trying something similar to this".

"This is true", says David - Sandra. "This is what I've seen last time. We were in ancient America, before Columbus... and we both smoked. We were shamans, husband and wife. I was the man and you were the woman, but we both felt like belonging to an intermediary gender. Something between".

"I told you! Transgender people!" says the professor, with a smile.

"Shamans, doctors, teachers, wizards, revolutionaries..." says Julia. "As I can see, in all lives, we tried to help others".

As their discussion continues, they start to talk about the moments when they can remember past memories. The professor finds out, surprised, that it only works when David wears an all-in-one women's costume and when Julia wears a strap-on.

"Why so?" asks Nick.

"I think they must look somehow similar to how they were in their last life", says the professor. "This opens the soul firewall and they can see beyond current life. But before everything, we need to check this thing out. We must find a way to bring them back here".

**********

The next day, after school, they meet again on the bench, talking about their memories.

"You were right, Julia".

"With what, Sandra?"

"With the alcoholic. Last night, I focused myself on him and I remembered him. Yes, he was desperate, knowing that he will be punished. He went to 'the school', as angels call that place".

"The school?" asks Julia.

"It is a place where souls learn. The alcoholic went to the school, to learn more and prepare himself for the next life. But, it was no way. In the end, he chosen a similar life. He wanted back the pleasure of drinking, the easy life he had. I remember the angels saying that they will prepare a choice for him in life, at some point".

"That's interesting. But what if he will still be an alcoholic and ruin his life?"

"There comes a place when a soul is too corrupted".

"Hell?" asks Julia.

"Sort of, but I was unable to see it. There go those who are unable to recover".

The professor listens and says:

"It is interesting that the alcoholic decided his future life. This is no violation of the law of freedom, the fundamental law of the Universe".

**********

The next day, the professor decides to take his chance. He goes to the park and meets David and Julia.

"How are you, children?" he says.

"We are fine", they answer.

The professor always calls students 'children'. At his age, they could fit well as his children. But the main reason is that he loves very much what he is doing and he loves all students like if they really were his children.

"There is something with you", he says. "I see you start to remember your past lives and even more. Somehow, the supercomputer connected you consciousness and sub-consciousness parts of the brains. I expected this to happen".

They both listen and don't say a word.

"I know how you feel", continues the professor. "You explore your past, late at night, wonderers through your many experiences. You've discovered secrets you never thought to be possible. And most of all, you will start to ask yourself why are you wonderers on Earth. Why are you returning from time to time? What is the reason of your existence and what are you trying to achieve here and in the world of souls? Home, as you call that world".

Again, they look to the professor, without saying a word.

"You are looking for an answer. It happened with myself too. Not that I managed to open my soul firewall, but I tried many times, with many children like you, to find the answer. It's the question that draws us here, in this Universe. Do you know the question?"

"What is the reason of our existence?" asks David.

"True, Sandra", says the professor.

"How do you know that name?" asks David.

"I know many things about you two. And I want to help you. You two can finish my life-long work".

"How?" asks Julia.

"There's nothing I can show you here. Come with me to the lab. Don't worry, what happened will never happen again".

They agree and go to the Psychology sector. The supercomputer is rebuilt, much more powerful then before.

"I spent all my salaries to rebuild it", says the professor. "But this time, it will only analyze what happens when you connect your consciousness and sub-consciousness parts of your brain. If I can break the key, you two will be able to access your past lives at any moment you want".

"Professor", says Julia, "the way we access our memories is not something you would like to see".

"I know", says the professor. "This is why I wanted to be alone with you. Nobody is here. I know what you use. I have what you need".

The professor locks the door, then brings an all-in-one costume and a strap-on.

"Don't worry, my children, nobody will see you. I stopped the watching cameras and all recording machineries. It will be just me and you two".

The two accept to change. David puts on the all-in-one costume. Now, he looks like a woman wearing a black dress and black pantyhose. Julia rises her skirt and adjusts the strap-on. They both sit on the chairs, while the professor himself adjusts all wires and connections. They wait a few minutes, nothing happens.

The professor advices them to light a cigarette. One minute later, they start to remember.

"Think about your last life", says the professor.

"I do", says Julia. "We were in Ural East".

"I remember it too", says David - Sandra".

"Think about something common. A common memory", advises the professor. "Your wedding day".

"I do", says Sandra. "We were at the town hall and the mayor asked Julia: 'Do you want to take Sandra to be your wife?' and..."

"Julia, what did you say?" asks the professor.

"I wanted to make a joke. I said: Yes, why not?"

"It's true!" says David - Sandra.

"I will use the computer to ask you a few questions", says the professor, monitoring their brains.

"What family name you chosen, Sandra?" asks the computer, using the language used in Ural East at that time.

"Sandra Leonova", asks David - Sandra. "But your accent is not correct".

"Wow!" says the professor. David answered in the language used in Ural East, a neo-Slavonic language.

"Think about your previous life", says the professor. "Where were you?"

"Two Muslim women, in a desert village", answers Julia.

"Think about that life", says the professor. "Now, can you read what is on the screen?"

On a screen, appears something written in Arabic.

"There is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his messenger", answers David.

"It's the shahada, the Islamic creed", says Julia. "It was written on our national flag".

The professor looks at the screen and says:

"My analysis is complete. Memories come to a person's mind when there is something similar to something experienced in a memory. There are two common things for you. First of all, you don't clearly belong to a gender. You crossed gender barriers many times and you are something between, Second, it is your strong addiction to smoking that lasted over 2000 years. The only way you can fully access your memories is to cross gender barrier. You have to become transgender people".

The professor says, then:

"When you don't wear your women's costume or your strap-on, I see a lot of activity, even a fight in your synapses. Your past experiences try to come in, but your current personality blocks them. This can destroy your brains and very soon. On the other hand, when you wear those things and somehow cross gender barriers, I see little, normal brain activity, like this is your natural way of existence".

They listen amazed, but don't say a single word.

"At that point, as trans people, you will be able to access all your memories. You have to become something between a man and a woman. I will make all the arrangements for you. I will pay everything it takes. But beware, there are many people that will not agree with the truth that you will reveal".

"What truth?" asks David - Sandra.

"That we live in a lie, my children. You discovered that there is a hell for those who don't use their lives properly. There is also a haven for those who deserve it, as other children revealed, before you. There is a God in charge of all this, there are angels who guide us and there also are demons, who misunderstood the law of freedom, the freedom to choose. There are many people who will not understand you and will fight against you as well, because they are happy with the evil way they chosen. But, the reward of finding the truth is beyond everything you've imagined possible, ever".

The professor looks at them, making sure they understood it all.

"If you don't agree to transform, your brains will not accept the different reality for long and you will end-up as mentally ill people. In that case, I have to erase your brains from past memories and you will no longer remember anything from past lives and the soul world. But if you transform, you will easily handle all this. I've seen on the screen how your brains operate and how easy and natural is for you to be somewhere between genders".

Again, the professor looks at them, without saying anything, making sure they understood how things are.

"This is your choice", continues the professor, taking the wires and sensors away from them. "Your brain damage is already visible. You have only a week to decide. After that, there will be no turning back. I will have to erase your memories from your brains, to save your lives. If you chose to transform, to cross gender barrier in this time, come to my lab. If not, you will enter a coma and return to your lives as they were before we met the first time".

The two rise from their seats and look around, thinking.

"Please, think wise", says the professor. "It is your decision, not mine. I never violate the law of freedom".

They stay, looking at each other and thinking about what to do.

"Please, change to your clothes and go home", says the professor. "The computer says you have exactly 6 Earth days to decide. I don't want to force you on any decision, because it is your own life. The choice is yours".

The professor watches as Julia and David open the door and leave. He knows very well how hard will be for them to take such a decision, but doesn't want to influence them in any way. Both Julia and David feel a huge pressure, like they never felt before. What should they do? A monstrous internal fight will start inside them, with their own self.

When the sword is above your neck, you hardly see the best solution (memories from a prisoner).

Caution: smoking scenes, moments of drama, depression and hard decisions

Will you go through the pain of complete body transformation when even a visit to the dentist is painful enough?

The professor warned Julia and David - Sandra that they have two options. If they remain as they are, their brains will not support the complex gender transformations they experienced during their past lives. In that case, in only six days, they will both enter a coma. The professor will have to erase all their memories from past lives, to save their brains. If they want to keep the memories and discover more, they will have to cross the gender barrier and become transgender people. But, as they can realize, that will require a lot of painful surgical procedures. Even if the year is 2538 and the technology is far more advanced, such a complex body transformation still is difficult and risky. What should they do?

Day 1

Julia and David - Sandra stop after school in the university park, as always, to talk.

"I made my mind", says Julia. "Even if we were in love since millennia and we've been together through many lives, I think we should not go further revealing our past. We will be together in this life too, as we were so many times".

"You mean, we should erase our brains?"

"Yes, Sandra. Just think at this: When I was little, I fallen from a tree. I had my hand immobilized for a week and it was so painful. Imagine how we would feel to completely transform our body. To add me a penis, to remove yours and make a hole instead, to add breasts for you... and probably remove mine. Do you realize how painful it will be?"

"I know", answers David. "But, I don't know. There is a part of me that wants to continue exploring our past lives".

"And besides, what will people say about us?" asks Julia. "Imagine me as a man as a cross-dresser, as I were in my past life and you as a woman. I could pass as a woman, but you know, women's clothes are elastic, not like in the past. Everybody will see a huge dick! Oh mine! Colleagues will laugh for months, we will be at the news channel".

"If that is your decision, I am with you", says David. "But, let's not take a decision fast. Will you?"

"And even for you", continues Julia. "That bully which used you as a boxing bag, will now probably try to rape you. Who knows what will now happen!"

"Julia, let's wait a few more days and in the 5th day take a decision", says David.

"We already have headaches and amnesia, showing that our brains are in trouble", adds Julia. "But if you insist, I will wait. Whatever you chose. If you want to die, I will die with you".

"Maybe if we don't explore our past lives, our brains will be more relaxed", says David.

"Ok, we will no longer see our past lives today, to see how we will feel".

**********

They went to their rooms and spent the whole evening doing anything else. Well, on Callisto, a day lasts 16 Earth days. People divided the day into 24 hours Earth cycles because the human brain is unable to keep with the long local day. So, what people call 'day', is in fact a cycle of 24 hours. There are 8 cycles of day time and 8 cycles of night time. Despite the day being so long, temperature variations are very low. Jupiter is far from the Sun and its moons are protected by a thick layer of greenhouse gasses. Temperature varies only with 3 degrees C.

Both could not sleep more then an hour. They were both thinking about the many lives they experienced together and felt sorry that all these memories will vanish soon. Very soon, David will no longer remember himself as Sandra, the woman. Julia will no longer remember herself as a cross-dresser and Sandra's husband.

They suffered the whole night and returned to school very tired, with headaches.

Day two

The two met again in the park, after classes.

"How was last night?" asks David - Sandra.

"I cried. I wanted to see our past lives and hardly managed not to. I am missing you as Sandra!"

"Me too".

"Could you sleep?" asks Julia.

"Hardly", answers David. "Less then an hour, I think. I thought this will help, but my head hurts even more. And I feel as dizzy as I never felt".

"What if we open our past lives?" says Julia. "At least only for this night. Soon, we will be unable to do this any more".

**********

That night, each in its own room, they dressed appropriate, to resemble what they were in their last reincarnation. Both remembered their last life, as they were in Ural East. But not only. David went further away in past, to a moment in the 1600's. At that time, they were both born as boys but ended-up as hijras. A hijra is India's third gender, a castrated man. The operation requires both testicles and the penis to be removed. Hijras look completely like women, even if they actually have no genitals. Even their breasts grow. Julia witnesses a much more distant past life, when she was a man. In that life, she wanted to be castrated, to remain more feminine.

Again, they could not sleep more then an hour. Knowing that their memories will not last for many days, they spent many hours, late in night, trying to remember as much as they could.

Day 3

The third day, they decide to go together and sleep together in Julia's room. After all, they've been a family in many lives. Even if they are in a platonic relation, their memories show that they had many sexual relations and even children so many times. David takes his all-in-one costume with him.

It is something common for students to have visitors, even from other genders, even to spend a night with someone. Many families form this way. The university even encourages this, offering better rooms for couples.

Even if they were together naked so many times in their past lives, David finds difficult to undress. Julia understands him and turns her back. David puts his costume and becomes like a woman. Now, the all-in-one covers his body like an elastic membrane. Even if the whole costume is made as a single piece of material, it resembles a knee-long dress with opaque tights. Julia helps him and uploads to his costume one of her favorite textures. The all-in-one becomes light green, with a white leaf drawn on the chest. The skirt and sleeves are also full with dark green leaves, while the feet are opaque black.

Julia has a light-red blouse-skirt, also made of a single piece. Her skirt is filled with red, white and black flowers, more on the skirt and less on the upper part. Her skirt ends just above her knees. She has no pantyhose and no socks on, just her white sandals, which she wears anywhere. She puts the strap-on, which creates a bulge under her dress.

Then, they both light a cigarette. Soon after, their memories from past lives start to appear.

"I know why you picked this design", says David - Sandra. "This is how we looked in the 2000's. At that time, we lived in the mountains of Northern Caucasus".

"Yes", says Julia. "At that time, you were the woman and I also was a cross-dresser. You loved to wear green".

"We had four children", continues David - Sandra. "I was born in the mountains and you in the civilized World. You came to me".

"Like if I knew you were there", continues Julia. "My parents could not accept it. I was their only son and they could not accept me to be with you".

"Because they thought I were a witch", says David - Sandra.

"And you were... sort of. At least in the eyes of everyone else".

"Remember our smoky kisses?"

"Yes", says Julia. "And I remember when you almost killed me because I didn't want to start smoking. I still wonder if you would really kill me".

"I don't know. I don't know if I would have the courage, in any life".

"I was the cross-dresser, a man always wearing pantyhose on", continues Julia. "Remember when I was massaging your feet? And you were mine?"

"I do", continues David - Sandra. "What still shocks me is how you found me. You went from the civilized Central Europe to the dangerous Northern Caucasus to find me. It was like if we were set to meet there".

"Perhaps we were", answers Julia. "We found each one in almost every epoch we went through. We found each other here, too".

"You were a Geological expert and I graduated the railway university. We used to talk for hours about Astronomy. We had such a wonderful marriage", continues David - Sandra.

Julia takes David's feet on her lap, massaging them and feeling the smooth texture of his all-in-one. It is similar to the tights and pantyhose that existed in the 2000's. Her hands move just as they did 2500 years ago. Then, David touches Julia's feet, uncovered by an elastic membrane, her pink toes and her sandals. It is the first time they ever do this.

"Your feet were so much different with pantyhose on", says David - Sandra. "It is amazing that I can remember the feeling after so much time".

The two get closer and make a smoking kiss, like they did in past. Their lips touch and smoke runs from one's mouths to the other's.

"In that life, we were sfenists", says Julia. "We never had sex and there was no way we could have".

"I remember", says David - Sandra. "It is because we were both sexually abused in that life. But even so, we were such an united couple!"

They stop at a few kisses and don't go further. For hours, they keep exploring their past lives, until finally end-up sleeping. For the first time, they sleep together in the same bed.

Day 4

After school, they meet in the park only for little, then go home, each one to its room. What happened that night, we should ask them.

David's story

I went to my room. It was the fourth day. I knew that only tomorrow we can live with our memories, the next day we have to go to the professor and remove the memories of our past lives. So, I wanted to take advantage of every single second I could. My head was full of pain. It was clear that my synapses are starting get affected.

After I took my all-in-one, I wanted to see how far I could get. How I found Julia? Well, you certainly want to hear this? Because, when I found out, it was a painful shock.

You won't believe it, but, probably our first incarnation was in the stone age. There we were, in the most unexpected situation. It shocked me to death to see that we were two men, gay. Yes, I am right. This is how it started. We were black, so I guess it was in Africa. We were in some sort of a tribe. Time was not counted in years in that era, so I have no idea when it were, but I guess it was in 3000 years before Christ. Is that how old our relation is? Over 5000 years passed and we still are together!

"Wow!" I said to myself. "How could that be possible?"

I tried to see more about that life, but it was very hard. Also, I could not see anything beyond. So, I turned to the next reincarnation that we had. Well, it was so different. We were, I guess in Central America. I was a man at that time and Julia a woman. We were children of a shaman. You might say that it was incest, but even if we were brother and sister, we had a relation. What I do remember, is that our parents were smoking. It was a ritual practice in ancient America. I tried it and got addicted. And from that point on, I became a smoker in all my lives, forcing also Julia into this habit.

It appears that we've been to every part of the world in ancient times: Africa, America, China, Siberia, you name it. It hurts me to say it now, but until I started to have memories from past lives, I was discriminating people. I had something with Muslims... until I found out I was a Muslim. At some point, I had something against black people... but the first incarnation I remember, was as a black male. Not the last, I was against gay people... and it was such a shock for me to find out that once I was one of them.

Never, I really mean never discriminate people, because there is a high chance you WERE in exactly what you don't like now. The reincarnation process takes you to all places and all human races possible. You won't believe it until you see it yourself.

Another thing that shocked me, is that in all lives I was a convinced smoker, no matter what I were. And I wanted to know why this addiction passed to me for so many lives. Did I ever died from smoking? I was examining this and I found the answer. Yes! This addiction killed me more times then I could imagine.

It was in the 1200's. We lived in ancient America. I was the man and Julia the woman. With the medical knowledge I have now, I am sure that smoking killed me. In my last days, I could not breath. What comes, scared me. Do you want to listen? I think so. I wouldn't like to tell you, but so be it. I remember I died in Julia's hands. When you see these memories, you don't remember the feelings you had, the pain mainly. You remember it was painful, the sensation itself is absent. It is just like when you have memories from this life. If you suffered something, like if you broke a leg or an arm, you remember how painful it was, but without feeling the pain itself.

I've seen myself rising above my body. Julia was crying. then, I continue to rise. I've seen my angel, taking me to the world of souls, which we call home. He was accusing me for destroying my body, showing me that I made myself a bad karma. I knew that I will have to pay for this in the next life. Destroying your own body is a sin just like killing someone else.

What I also remember, is that, when we were at home, me and Julia were planning our next life. We wanted to go back to Earth. So, we chosen to go to Persia. I remember how we carefully chosen the lives we wanted to live and the bodies to wear. In this new life, I were to be the woman and she the man. We were a family again. What happened, is that my strong smoking addiction forced me to try various things. You won't believe it, but it was me who invented hashish smoking. That was before Columbus sailed to America. Believe me, my angel was very upset for what I've done.

At that point, I realized that at each reincarnation, we plan what to do. Each one is a lesson for us to learn. There must be a reason why souls return to this world from time to time, but at that time I could not figure out what that reason was.

I could not sleep the whole night. In the morning, I realized that my present life must have a reason and if the reason is to remember all my past lives, I have to go through.

Julia's story

What I did that night? I tried to see something else, something that was in my mind for a long time. Memories from the soul world, from home as it should be named, are harder to remember. I wanted to see if me and Sandra actually planned to meet each time. How was it that in almost every life we found each other?

So, I tried to remember what happened before we came to our present life.

We were home. Please, let me call that place this way. As we were thinking to come, there was the soul of a woman, planning her next life. She was memorizing something. She was talking to someone, to another soul:

"When you see me, don't hesitate to hit me!"

She was planning to be hit by a hovering car, to have broken legs. This way, she wanted to burn some of her negative karma from past life, where she killed someone. Well, we didn't have much negative karma to burn.

We spent maybe days, selecting the best location and what bodies to have. Sandra told me:

"When I will see you, you have to wear white sandals, so that I will recognize you. And make a bubble of gum".

"And when I will see you", I said, "you have to play with your hair. And give me a cigarette".

We uploaded these details in our sub-consciousness. And this is exactly how it happened. Our lives are not at random. there, in home, we seen it all and planned everything. We came to this life for a reason. There is a lesson that we want to learn here. All these reincarnations are like a multitude of school classes. Each one requires learning and then passing an exam, but the life itself is an exam.

There was not much time left. We only had one more day, then we had to decide if we will cross gender barrier or not. So, I wanted to see what I could remember from home. If I could see my life there, then I could see what choice to take.

Then, I realized. We've been women, men, cross-dressers, castrated, hijras, but we never were transgender people. This is the barrier we never passed over. We never changed completely from one gender to another. Maybe this is the lesson that we must pass.

When the morning came, I was feeling so dizzy, that I hardly managed to get out of room.

Day 5

David and Julia felt very bad at school, but managed to stay until the last class ended. Even if it is Saturday, some students still come to school. Teachers come for free, as Saturday is the day when the best students are coming.

It was David and Julia's their last day. Tomorrow, they had to take a decision. David invites Julia to his room. They both change, so that their past lives can be revealed.

"Sandra", says Julia, "do you remember the moment before coming to this life? When we were home?"

"Before coming here?" asks David. "I do, when we met back home. I waited you. We were very happy to be together again".

"Later", insists Julia. "When we decided to go. Do you remember what you said to me?"

"When?"

"When we were planning our bodies. You told me to wear white sandals and to make a bubble of gum when I will see you. These were our signs, so that we can meet each other".

"I do!" answers David, almost shouting. "I remember. Yes, we planned to meet here".

"And do you remember what signs I asked from you?"

"Yes, I do", he says, surprised. "To play with my hair and to give you a cigarette. We agreed upon this. And that's just how it went!"

Julia tries to smile, which is hard, over all the pain she feels from her head. Then, she says:

"We left to this world for a reason. We planned our lives here for a purpose. What I don't know, is what that purpose is. Are we here to go through tomorrow, forget everything or go on? What do you think? Cause right now, I cannot judge anything more. I spent all night thinking about that. Is our purpose to cross gender barriers?"

David looks carefully at Julia, then takes her feet on his lap. He kisses her, then gently massages her toes. Then, he touches her strap-on. Suddenly, both have memories from past life. When David was Sandra and Julia was a cross-dresser, sometimes they practiced mutual masturbation. David moves his hand beneath Julia's skirt, then stops, saying:

"Sometimes, these memories are so real, that I feel like I did it last night".

"It's ok", says Julia. "No problem, perhaps we will be doing this again one day".

"I was thinking about something", says David. "Do you remember in the 2000's, there was a movie, Matrix. You remember it?"

"Yes, I do", says Julia. "With all people being prisoners of the machines and having their brains connected to a virtual world. Somehow, it is similar to the reality. People could not see anything beyond their virtual reality. Just like people today cannot see anything beyond their current life".

"The main character, Neo, if I remember his name correctly", continues David. "He was offered a choice".

"The scene with the pills!" exclaims Julia. "Take the red pill and get out of the matrix, take the blue pill forget everything".

"You see, Julia, we are just like Neo. We have right now two pills in front of us. Until that moment, Neo did not see what the Matrix is, but he wanted to. We've seen already enough. We have to chose. The red pill or the blue pill. Explore or resign".

"Yes. But, what pill would you take?" asks Julia. "Are we ready to take the red pill, or we should wait another life for this?"

"Julia, think about this. What if Neo takes the blue pill? Wouldn't he regret the whole of his life this decision? The story ends, you wake-up in your room and believe whatever you want. I think that I don't want to waste my entire life, thinking why didn't I take the red pill. I advise that we go to the professor tomorrow morning and cross gender barriers".

"I will come with you. This must be the reason of our current life".

Day 6

Unlike any day, Julia and David spent their time waiting for morning to come. They kissed, touched, cuddled and remembered more of their past lives.

Even if it is Sunday morning, the professor always come to his lab, at least for an hour. He does this, to work with his favorite students.

In the morning, they took men's clothes over their women's elastic clothing, so that nobody would know what is going on. David kept his all-in-one beneath his clothes, while Julia kept her strap-on beneath her clothes. Their heads were full of pain and ready to explode. It was very hard for them to even move. some colleagues laughed at them, saying that they are both drunk. It was still very early in the morning when they arrived to the Psychology sector. Very tired, they managed to reach the door. It was still locked. Nobody arrived.

They light a cigarette. It is very hard even to smoke.

Two men, employed for cleanup, find the two sitting at the door.

"Are you ok?" asks one of them.

"Is the professor coming?" asks David. "It is an emergency".

"Yes, but later. Are you waiting for him?"

"We must talk with him", says Julia.

"I have his phone number", says the other man. "If it is who he told me will come, I'll dial and you speak".

David takes the phone. With a sleepy voice, the professor answers:

"Who is it?"

"It's Sandra", says David. "And Julia. We are at the lab. We made our mind. We are ready to be transformed".

"Come, we feel very bad", says Julia, almost crying of pain. "Please, transform us!"

"As far as I can, my children. Don't move from there. I will come with a medical team. Everything is prepared for you. Now, give me the guy you took the phone from".

The worker takes the phone and says:

"Sir, they came in time, just as you said they will".

"Tom, thank you for watching" says the professor." Keep an eye on them. Don't let anyone take those two children. You understand? Don't let anyone take them to a hospital! I will come with the medical team. Their lives are in great danger if anyone else gets to them before me".

The professor comes as fast as he can, together with a an emergency medical team he prepared for the moment. Both Julia and David are starting to lose contact with the real world. Every second is critical if the professor wants to save their precious connection to their past lives. The medical team takes them in a hurry, while the professor comes with them.

"Hold on, my children", he says. "Hold on, this is the beginning of a wonderful journey".

I’m trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk through it (The Matrix).

Caution: large-scale body transformations and limited smoking and erotic scenes

The ambulance carries David - Sandra and Julia to a private hospital as fast as possible. The professor is joining them. Their lives and their memories from past lives can be saved only if the right procedures are done in time. Every second counts. Their brains show signs of damage, as more and more memories from past lives try to get to the consciousness part of the brain. Knowing that time is critical, the professor induces them a state of trance, almost like a coma, but completely different. David - Sandra starts talking in a North Caucasian language, while Julia starts talking a South East European language. Nobody understands them. The professor keep calling his friends with his phone. Everything was well prepared, but many unknown factors are yet to be seen.

The ambulance stops at its destination. A team of doctors take David - Sandra and Julia to an emergency block. Another professor, comes to see the patients.

"I am glad you came, Albert", says the professor.

"They are the two you told me about, sir?" asks Albert.

"Yes, they are the key to our theories. You know what you have to do. Scan their brains immediately!"

"Yes, just let me power-up our supercomputer".

Albert was one of professor's first students. He is now specialized in transgender people psychology. He connects the two to a supercomputer and analyses them. He looks very surprised at the data gathered.

"These two are unique", says Albert. "They are something I've never seen. Usually, transgender people show a bioenergy signature that corresponds to the gender they want to belong to. Even in early childhood, this is visible, before they can realize it. For example, a boy which later wants to become a woman, shows a bioenergy signature very close to that of a girl. By analyzing that signature, I can see how he will look when he will be a she".

"What do these values look like?" asks the professor.

"They are similar to both men and women", says Albert. The two show all elements of both genders. They are something between".

"Hermaphrodites?"

"A bit similar, but still this is different. Also, it looks like what I found at a shemale. Just wait for the computer to project their signature and calculate how their bodies should look like. It should appear in seconds on the screen".

And the results appears.

"This is unbelievable!" says Albert, with a very surprised look. "Just take a look, it is something I've never seen in my whole life!"

The computer calculated, based on their bioenergy signature, how David - Sandra and Julia want their bodies to look like. The screen displays two nearly similar bodies, with almost the same height. Both bodies resemble that of a woman, with small breasts, with faces somehow between those of a man and those of a woman and with genital organs belonging to both sexes. This includes a penis and a vagina. The professor looks at the 3D images created and takes his phone, calling some people. Not soon, a team of surgeons come and look at the image. They look for a few seconds, then they look at the bodies of the two. The professor says:

"Do you think it is possible?"

"To build this?" asks one of them. "I don't know, it looks like one of the most complex reconstruction surgery of my entire life".

"Leo", says the professor. "You were my best student in your time. You can do it. I've seen wonders done through your hands".

"I don't know if it is possible to keep elements from both genders in equilibrium", says someone else. "Estrogens and testosterone don't go well one with the other. On a long timescale, their bodies will reject one gender".

"To make this functional", says someone else, "we have to reconstruct part of their brains and neural filaments. We have to connect the new organs to the brain properly".

"We have to make their bones longer or shorter, to adjust muscles, to transform their bodies completely", says another doctor.

"New organs can be built from cloned embryonic cells, but it will take time", finally says the last doctor. "You're asking us to do a lot of work in two weeks, which otherwise should be done in years. I will try my best, but I don't guarantee".

"Everyone, do what you can", says the professor.

**********

All doctors decided to start working. They extracted cells from their bodies and started to work with them, to create new organs and parts that will be implanted. This technology is largely used in the 2500's and allows damaged organs, like hearts and kidneys to be cloned. But here, everything is more complicated.

The doctors then decide to set Julia and David into a deep coma, blocking all brain activities, to stop any further brain damage. All interior organs will be controlled by a computer. Breathing, heart beating, digestive functions, all will be controlled by machines. Their brains are stopped almost completely.

First come the doctors who will grow in vitro the new organs. They take cells from genital areas and clone them, to further grow them in incubators. The process is complex. Not only that new organs will need to grow, but all veins, arteries, muscles and nerves will need to be perfectly cloned and connected to their bodies.

Then come other doctors. They have the job to make Julia's arms and legs grow a bit longer and to make David's become shorter. This is a very difficult procedure. It is almost like building new arms and legs. Well, in fact only bones can be made longer or shorter in an easy way. Muscles need to be cloned and attached to their previous positions. The skin also needs to be adjusted. All arteries, veins, lymphatic channels and nerves need to be rebuilt. To remove a section of them sounds easy, but it's not. Each time, you have to use high precision instruments. To grow them longer is also not easy, because you actually have to stretch them every day with a few millimeters.

Before the new organs are built, there is something else that needs to be done. Their brains and nerves don't have the corresponding parts for the new organs. So, new nerves and some brain parts need to be grown from cloned cells and carefully inserted. It is the most difficult operation of all. This requires surgical interventions with the precision of less then a micron. Humans are unable to do this. Only a high-tech machine is able to do that. The procedure is largely used after accidents, to rebuild destroyed nerves and connect them to cloned body parts.

Finally, the cloned organs are added. Now, they will all have both male and female genitals. The doctors carefully add small breasts to David - Sandra and replace existing ones with smaller ones for Julia.

Then, they concentrate to facial surgery. The last improvement is adjusting David's larynx, to change his voice.

Having both male and female genitals comes with a major problem. Estrogens will make male organs shrink in size, while testosterone will make female organs shrink. Also, estrogens decrease production of testosterone and testosterone decreases production of estrogens. how can you keep them both in equilibrium? It was impossible in past. Now, thanks to some technological updates, it is. By carefully blocking receptors for each hormone and by carefully controlling their production, it is possible. This is not done with medicine, but with the help of an extra organ, artificially made, which is less then 1 cm in size.

A complete hermaphrodite transformation was not possible. They will not have functional ovaries and testicles. They will never menstruate, never be able to get pregnant and never be able to have functional sperm.

**********

Finally, after roughly 30 Earth days, everything is ready. All the work is completed. It was such a complex work, that the event went on the news. The final moment has come. The doctors will resuscitate the brains of both teens, to wake them up. This is not a simple process, after all neurons have been sleeping for a month. Each neural center is activated slowly, while electronic plugins, which kept internal organs operating, are gradually removed. Everything works just as expected. The new parts of the brain start to operate. The new filaments are receiving commands and bringing signals from the new organs. It takes hours until all procedures are completed.

Then, comes the final moment. The professor, together with all doctors, is there, to witness the final transformation. The two receive a final electric impulse, after which the last connections are removed. The two wake-up, finally.

"Where am I?" asks Julia, first, looking around.

"In a hospital", answers David, with his new, female voice. "Hey, what's this?" he says, surprised.

"Welcome back!" says a doctor.

"Welcome back, children", says the professor, looking at them. "How do you feel?"

"A bit strange", says Julia.

"I have tits!" says David, surprised. Am I a woman?"

"And I..." says Julia, feeling her new penis. "What is this?"

"Do you feel your new organs?" asks a doctor.

The doctors check them for an hour, proving that their new bodies work ok. Then, the professor tests their ability to remember past lives and again everything looks ok. After all this, they receive new identity cards, with their new trans-genders. Now, David is officially named Sandra.

From this moment on, David will be named Sandra.

The professor took care of everything. He motivated their absences at the university, did all the paperwork and made sure that from now on they will both live in the same room. He even made sure that a taxi will take them to their new room. After such a difficult operation, the press will be here for sure. As the two leave to the taxi, the professor tells them:

"I could not do this alone. I was helped by many friends. There will come a day when you will understand why we helped you. Now, go to your new room and examine your new bodies. And tomorrow, go to school like you did before. All your colleagues know about your transformation and your ability to remember past lives, but nobody knows what is the reason I helped you this far. You will realize it after you graduate".

**********

The taxi takes them directly to the sleeping rooms, in a block specially made for couples... and lets them at the entrance. they have the key and number of the room. It is somewhere on the 5th floor. Some people look at them. Without asking anything, they go fast to their room, even if everybody is looking at them. They get into their room and close the door. Inside, all their stuff is arranged carefully. It s clear that someone took care of everything.

After eating something, they lie on the bed and light a cigarette, examining their new bodies. It is so surprising! Both have the same size, both look very similar, with arms and legs of the same length. Their faces look almost the same. The doctors took care even to paint their hair in the same color and with the same length, in black.

Their clothes are similar, women's, elastic clothes. Both wear a sheer elastic membrane, something equivalent with a bodystockings used in the 2000's, very sheer, which covers their whole bodies, except for hands and heads. Its color is close to the color of the skin, shiny and transparent. Above it, they have a blouse-skirt, elastic, opaque and colored in black, white and red. The 'skirt' part barely touches their knees, while the sleeves cover half of their arms. To make them look more similar, they both have white sandals, identical white earrings and an identical necklace.

Their new bodies are so similar, shocking similar in fact. Both have small breasts. Their skin is different, with no moles and no hairs except for on their head. Their voices are feminine, but with a bit more bass then a classic woman's voice.

The major difference comes to their genitals. Now, they have both a penis and a vagina, both male and female, both with a normal size. Testicles are also present, but have less then half the size that they would normally have. There is no pubic hair on their genitals.

First thing they waned to test, is if their penises will be visible. Surprisingly, even if they should wear women's elastic pants, the genitals will be hardly visible, only if someone looks careful. Under the skirt, it is clearly invisible, except if it becomes erected. But, having the elastic membrane beneath, limits the erection very good.

"We've been in many situations", says Sandra. "But, since the first time we walked on Earth, we've never been like this. This is in fact what we always wanted to be".

"You make me remember the days we were in Ural East", says Julia. "Once, we've been in a very similar pose, resting both on the bed and talking. You told me that night that you wanted to be a cross-dresser or if possible a hermaphrodite".

"And you told me that you wish in your next life to be a woman", says Sandra. "Well, you were a woman... but now, you are more".

"Right", says Julia, letting a cloud of smoke fly out of her mouth. "We both are".

"It took over 5000 years until finally mankind reached the technology needed to make us what we are today", continues Sandra. "It took us 5500 years to reach this point".

"I wish we will always remain like this", says Julia, holding a cigarette in one hand and exploring her genitals with the other.

"Finally, I am officially Sandra".

"Welcome to this world, Sandra!"

They explore their bodies until late in night, they talk and kiss, touching each other's body. Each time, they remember how many lives they spent as women, men, cross-dressers and not only... but they never were like they are now.

The big test will be tomorrow, when they will go to school. How will their colleagues react? For sure, not in a pleasant way.

People reject what they find different from them (a study about discrimination).

Caution: smoking scenes, humiliation scenes and some adult subjects

Julia and Sandra are preparing to go to school with their new hermaphrodite bodies. How will their colleagues accept this? To make things harder, all students heard what happened with the two.

They wake-up after a good sleep. Sandra gets out of bed and comes with a few cookies and two glasses of milk. They eat this short breakfast and look at their bodies. It is like they hardly believe it happened, that now they look almost identical and are both hermaphrodites. Their bodies look more like those of a female then those of a male. Today, they will have to pass a hard test. Other students will see them at school as they look. Many people will probably not react well to this. As they still sit on the bed and light the first cigarette, memories from past lives come to their mind.

"Remember in the 800's, when we were two hijras?" asks Julia. "We looked very similar to how we look today".

"I remember", says Sandra. "We looked very similar at that time. It was the last time we looked almost like tweens".

"And even if we were castrated", continues Julia, "we were in love. There was no way for us to have sex, but we were some sort of a couple. We never accepted anal sex, as most hijras do".

"At that time, technology was far more limited then it is today", answers Sandra. "We wanted to cross gender barriers, that's why we incarnated as hijras".

"Oops!" says Julia, feeling her body. "My penis got erected by itself!"

"Yes, it happens almost always in morning, before you completely wake-up", answers Sandra. "It will calm down once you are completely awake".

"I know", continues Julia, "from when I were a man. I just hope that it will not happen while we are at school".

Sandra gets up and prepares her clothes for school. Julia also moves to a wall, where they have a large mirror. Both come to the mirror, to examine their new bodies. Since they've been together in so many past lives, they find this very natural, like they've done many times in past. In the mirror, naked, they can see themselves how similar their bodies are. On their entire skin, there is no spot, no mole, no piece of hair except for the head. How shocking similar they are! But, the most interesting part is their genital area. There, a half-erected penis and two small balls hide behind the entrance to a vagina.

Well, time is limited, they don't want to be late. So, they talk about how to get dressed.

"People probably await me to be David", says Sandra. "But I am no longer. I know I should take women's clothes, but there is a big part of me wanting to take men's".

"I know", says Julia with a kiss", but if you don't do the changes today, tomorrow it will be too late and you will regret it".

"I know", answers Sandra, putting her men clothes in the closet. "David is long behind".

"And the professor is waiting us as we are now", continues Sandra. "I have to".

"You need some courage, Sandra", says Julia. "Just ignore everyone!"

"I hope those bullies will don't go to far".

"I will get dressed just like you".

They both decide to get dressed in the same way. They first take an elastic membrane over their bodies, which covers everything except for the head and hands with a sheer, shiny, translucent texture. After this, they add pants, larger, so that they can hide their genitals. Then, they add a blouse-dress. They edit it to be simple white, with no details on, just with a black line on the bottom. The blouse-dress is set not long and not short. It reaches the knees and covers half of the hands. Its elastic shape copies the shape of the body. Then, they take white earrings and a small necklace. And then, they arrange their black hair into a ponytail, as most girls do. Everything is ready. Now, they take their purses, identical black ones. 15 minutes will pass until the first class starts.

They leave the room and travel the park, holding each other by hand. Then, they kiss and separate, not caring that many people look at them all over the place.

What happened at school? The best way to find out is to ask them.

Julia's story

My first day at school with my new body? It was a very interesting experience. First of all, I was scared what will happen if suddenly I will have an erection. I was amazed of the feeling you have with both genitals on your body. It is something amazing, something I never experienced. In all my past lives, I were a man, a woman, a cross-dresser, but never a hermaphrodite. In past, it would had been far more easy to hide your genitals then it is now, with these elastic clothes.

I went directly to the amphitheater, where the classes will be. I entered and moved to the first raw, to my desk. Just as I entered, everybody started to say:

"Julia!"

"She is still alive!"

"She changed".

"I can hardly recognize her".

I changed? Do I look different? Well, my face is radically changed. And I am taller then I were. I find it difficult to move, feeling like I lose my equilibrium. There is a major difference on how you walk. On Earth, where gravity is strong, people walk with small steps to move around. On Callisto, everything is different. Walking here is done with large steps, but not by jumping, as you do on the Moon. It is somehow like running, only that you don't get tired, because your body is light. The lack of gravity creates a lot of trouble to any newcomer. I remember the first days, I could not walk 100 m in straight line without falling. Just try to jump over a small pond and you end-up on the other side of a road! Now, with these long feet, I am experiencing the same problems. As I walk the stairs, I move like if I were drunk!

Colleagues were talking and even laughing about me, but I didn't care. Even the professors, they came and looked at me very careful. At first, I was just avoiding everyone, but then I realized. They were all looking at my crotch, like trying to see under my skirt, to see if I really have genitals from both genders.

From time to time, I was feeling my genitals, especially my penis. Memories from past lives helped me a lot. When I were a cross-dresser, I knew how to hide that organ and look as feminine as possible. During pauses, most students leave the classroom to a large balcony in front of the amphitheater, where we smoke. In the first break, I was very anxious, not to notice anyone. I even went to the bathroom, looked in the mirror and assured myself that my dick was not visible at all.

I found soon that memories from past lives are stronger. Before this, I could remember new things only when I was smoking, but now, it happens even when I am not.

At the third course, a teacher came and looked directly at me. He said:

"I am glad to have you back! Honestly, I don't agree with what happened to you and I don't believe in past lives, but it is your decision".

Well, that teacher likes to ask us questions. At some point, he started to talk about how people seen the Universe before the arrival of technology. Suddenly, he says:

"Before 1500, most people thought that the Earth is flat. They thought that stars were angels or candles in the sky. Is it true, past-lives rememberer?"

He was looking at me and I had to respond.

"It depends when", I answered.

"Before 1500, as I said. Where were you at that time?"

"In 1200's", I say, "I was in America".

"That was before the Europeans discovered America?"

"Yes".

"Well, how did people see the world at that time?" he asks. "Tell me your lie, I don't believe you anyway".

"Well, in that life, we never asked ourselves what is the shape of the Earth. And the stars, they were just stars. We believed they had magical power, healing power and could predict the future".

"You never asked if the Earth was round or flat?" he asks me with a bit of anger.

"Not in that life. Before, in the 1100's, in another life, people thought that the Earth was sitting on the back of three giant snakes moving on water".

The professor laughs at this and so do the students.

"In the 1600's", I continue, "I lived in Persia. There, people believed the Earth is round".

"Well, that was after the Europeans discovered America", says the professor.

"But they thought the stars, the Sun and all planets were orbiting around the Earth".

The professor laughs again, then asks me:

"I believe you if you say something in Persian. Tell me in Persian that the Earth is round and the Sun moves around the Earth".

"The Earth is round and the Sun moves around the Earth", I answer in Persian.

All students start to whisper.

"Your brain is filled with uploaded staff", says the professor. "I know that Psychology expert, he is insane! Well, I motivated all your absences, still. Not for him, but for you. He found that the only way to prove past lives exist, is to upload in your brain a lot of data. But I will prove to you that he is wrong. He uploaded in your brain languages and information. A live translation will reveal the truth. My phone has an automatic translator. Come here and speak!"

I was in the center of attention, everyone was looking at me as I walked. Honestly, I was scared.

"Tell me in Persian that 'I lived in Persia' and I will show you that you are wrong".

I say it, in the language I remember: "I lived in Persia". Instantly, the phone comes with a translation. Language was automatically detected: Persian - ancient.

"Persian - ancient?" says the professor. "Now, that is strange. Well, you lived in ancient America. Tell me something in a language spoken there. Say 'I lived in Amercia before the Europeans came".

I try, but stop. Then, I say:

"The term 'America' was not known at that time. I know no word for it".

"How is that possible?" says the professor.

"At that time, we had no idea that there is something beyond the ocean".

"Then, say something else. Say: 'I am tired and I hate lies' for example".

I say it, in five different languages, from five different past lives. The program comes four times with an error, unknown language. Only once, it gets the language as Huave, extinct language, but without understanding all words. The automated translation sounds loud, so that everyone can hear:

"Me sleepy, unknown word, lie anger".

Later, I found out that Huave was still spoken by 10000 people in the 2000's. This language died in the 2200's, despite huge efforts to preserve it. Still, many old languages, that existed in the 2100's, are preserved in computer databases and can be accessed by any translator program. Well, I spoke an older version, which the program did not understand well.

Most students are amazed of this, but the professor says:

"Still I don't believe it. That sun of a bitch inserted a lot of crap in your brain. I am wonder why you are still alive and why your synapses are still functional. Maybe you have an implant which you don't know about yet... but you will one day".

When the pause came, I went to the balcony, to smoke a cigarette. Other students gathered around me, like if I were a miracle. They started to ask me about past lives, about languages that I know and about places I've been into. They tried to translate with their phones.

Then, after the last class, which ended up early because the professor was in a hurry, I went to the park, on our bench. I decided to light another cigarette, thinking about our past. How many lives we spent in ancient America? Many, for sure. But, there was something else in my mind. I tried to focus on the reincarnation I had in the 2000's. At that time, I were a guy. I was all alone until I went to one of the poorest and most dangerous place in the world, the Northern Caucasus. At that time, I was a man, a hidden cross-dresser, always wearing pantyhose, secretly under my jeans.

All my life changes when I met Sandra. She was such a powerful smoking addict... she almost killed me because I didn't want to smoke. The next life, we were both women and we worn pantyhose too, even if it was a hot area. Then, again, in Ural East, when I were a cross-dresser and she was a woman. All times, Sandra was a smoking addict. But why?

Trying to figure out, I look at my sandals and at my feet, encased in the translucent and shiny membrane.

I remember the time when we were home or in the spirit world. There, it is impossible to keep something hidden. The way souls communicate is telepathy, not by words. Still, you can have a private conversation with someone if you touch that person.

In this life, I avoided using pantyhose almost entirely. All time, I worn sandals, exposing my toes. When I was with Sandra at home, we discussed how to meet each other here. I agreed to wear sandals and to make a bubble of gum when we will meet. Well, I worn sandals almost all time. I inserted this information in my sub-consciousness too much.

Then, I remember something else. There is a place where we must go, to review all our life, to see all good and all bad things we've made. There, in front of something like an old paper book, you see holographic images of your last life. Each time, you can put yourself into the skins of other people around you, to see how your actions affected them. You see all good and all bad things you've done through the eyes of others.

In my past life, I was in Ural East, as a man, but a cross-dresser. My addiction to pantyhose, which came from the 2000's, was still powerful. When I was a child, my parents were strongly against any cross-dressing... but I still practiced it. I was too shy to steal them from my mother and still too shy to buy them from a shop. We were in a less populated area. My addiction made me to do something else: I went to the place where people drop garbage and I searched for a pair of pantyhose there. I found what I was looking for. After a while, I went there again for the same reason. This happened a few times. Then, one day, my parents found out of my addiction. I was so sad, that I took them all to a corner of the forest and made a little fire. I burned all my pantyhose collection there, then I left. Well, the fire did not stop. It grew and burned two homes, leaving two families homeless.

I remember how my angel explained me that it was a very bad thing what I've done, that I left two families on the road. I realize it very clear. My angel wanted to make sure that I am sorry and I realize the bad thing I've done. It was the worst thing I've done in my last life. I felt very sorry for this. And I feel sorry now too.

I look at my feet. My toes, painted light pink, are hardly visible through the elastic membrane. Still, I remember how many times I was wearing pantyhose in my last 3 lives.

Sanrda's story

If you ask me how was my first day at school with new bodies, well, it was a big surprise. I thought everyone will laugh at me and I will end-up by the end of the day as a boxing bag. It was a huge surprise that things did not end-up this way.

I tried to avoid looking at anyone, to just reach that amphitheater as fast as possible. I was not running. And how could I? This new body has shorter legs. I have more precision on them, but they are slower. The same surprise I had when I took my sit. My arms are also shorter. I needed time to adapt. My hands were not going where I wanted to.

If you ask me what my colleagues thought about me, I tell you that they were very surprised. I did not have the courage to look at them, but I could hear them:

"Is that David?"

"On the fuck! He is a she?!"

"Don't forget, it's Sandra now".

"Wow! He has breasts!"

"He looks like a girl to me! At least with these clothes, he does".

"What a fuck?"

I went directly to my place and sat down. I did not bother what they were talking. I prepared the electronic paper, to take notes of what the professors will say today. Imagine that I did not move, I did not even dare to look the first professor in his eyes. When the pause came, I didn't dare to get out to the balcony and smoke, like I always did. Only at the second class, I dared to look. The professor used to ask us questions. Suddenly, he asked something and said:

"David?... I mean Sandra? Do you know the answer?"

I answered correctly. Surprisingly, everyone started to whisper, because of my feminine voice.

"Very good", said the professor. "But if so, then why ..... ?" he asked me another question.

I answered again, correctly.

"Good, Sandra. But try to pay more attention to what I say".

Wow! He called me Sandra and accepted me this way! I felt like I passed a big exam.

In the next pause, I could not resist the temptation and I went to smoke a cigarette on the balcony. Like always, I went to a corner, where nobody bothers with me. Colleagues were watching me. I could hear how they were talking about me, how they were looking at me, spying me.

After I smoked, I needed to go to the toilette. Where should I go? To men or to women room? I decided to go to men's room. with my hermaphrodite body, I can take a piss with either organ I want. Guys tried to avoid me. One said:

"David, I heard you have both a cock and a pussy".

I just ignored and moved back to the amphitheater, for the next course.

This time, I dared to look the professor in his eyes. I watched the lesson like always, starting to feel comfortable in this new body and with my new clothes. Then, the professor started to talk about History. He started to talk about one of the bloodiest incident in the early 2200's, when a terrorist organization managed to detonate 3 atomic bombs: one in Vatican, one in Mecca and one in Jerusalem, hoping to start world war 4, which almost started. Then he says, directly looking at me:

"I always thought what people were thinking during that time. Maybe you know".

Everyone was looking at me and I felt very shy.

"Sandra, where were you in that time?" the professor asks. "Were you on Earth?"

"I was 19", I answer. "We've seen it on the news and we were all very afraid. I was in Arabia and we thought that the Catholic Brotherhood was behind it. Everyone agreed that we must go to war".

Everyone starts to whisper, but the professor asks again:

"But the war did not happen", continues the professor.

"Yes, it did not happen, but everyone felt it very close. We started to dig tunnels. But then, we heard that Mecca was not the only attack and we realized that someone else did it".

Then, the lesson continues like before.

In the next pause, I go to the balcony, like before. Again, nobody bothers me. I light a cigarette and smoke quietly. Since I am shorter now, I cannot see like I did before. In past, I used to keep an eye for the bully. You know, it is not pleasant to be a boxing bag at all. Other colleagues were usually making fun of me when I was bitten. So, I had no chance to see him coming until it was too late.

"Oh, Sandra, look how sexy you are!" I hear his voice like from nowhere.

My heart stopped, my blood freeze, realizing that now things will be worse then ever.

"Say, do you want to go to bed with me?" asks the bully, as everyone laughs. "My dick is hard. What do you say?"

I don't even dare to look at him. I take a drag from my cigarette, remembering past lives. In the 2000's, I was a woman, but I had a very harsh life in the poor and dangerous Northern Caucasus. I was even part of the tobacco mafia. I cultivated tobacco or collected it from other peasants. I made cigarettes, packed them and smuggled them over border. It is like all this happened yesterday, not 500 years ago.

"Why are you so quiet?" asks the bully. "Would you give me a kiss, sweetie?"

Everyone laughs. But, I remember many other things. There was a guy from the alcohol mafia which tried to seduce me in the 2000's. I smashed him with a chair. Even if he was a godfather, he did not dare to tell anyone, thinking about his reputation. At that time, my body was shorter, similar to how I look now.

"Would you give me a puff of your cigarette?" says the bully, continuing to approach.

Suddenly, I remember how I smashed the balls of another guy. All guys who tried to seduce me ended in the same way. I even remember how, when I found that Julia was a hidden cross-dresser, I played a dangerous game. People believed I was a witch. So, I simulated that I missed a spell and made Julia to act like a woman, in face of everyone. After this, he could walk in public as a cross-dresser. Only that, people wanted to kill me for. Many times they screamed at me: I'll kill you! Why should I be afraid of this bully?

"Oh, you have tits! Am I wonder, how deep is your pussy?"

As he says this, he comes with a hand very close to my breasts. In that moment, I feel something I never felt. It is like the character from my past life came into existence. And in fact, it is not a character. It is me. I take a deep drag of smoke and blow it into his face.

"What's wrong with you, miserable piece of shit?" he says. "I will crack your pussy and you will suck my dick. Isn't that clear?"

I take the last drag from my cigarette, looking closer to him. I bitten guys who were more tough then this one. Why the fuck am I afraid of him?

He takes one hand and touches my breasts, feeling them and even squeezing them. Then, I instantly shout at him in a North Caucasian language:

"Leave me alone, infidel!"

I smash his balls with my sandal very hard.

"What the fuck is wrong with you?" he says, trying to give me a punch.

"Die, idiot! Just die!" I scream in neo-Slavonic, the language of Ural East, hitting him hard.

It all happens so fast, that I almost don't realize it. In a few seconds, I give him all the punches I can in his stomach, then another powerful foot in his balls. And then, I find a chair and throw it in his head. I hear a powerful noise. He is down on the floor, with injuries on his head, trying to move away.

"I'll kill you!" he shouts.

"Leave me alone!" I say in an ancient American language.

He leaves, vanishing behind people.

"Well done, Sandra!" says a girl.

"Wow!" says a guy. "As a guy, you ware a scared cat. But as a woman, you are more man then a man!"

"What did you tell him, Sandra?" asks a girl, lighting a cigarette and offering me one.

"Where did you learn to fight?" says someone else.

"In a past life", I answer them. "I had no idea I knew how to fight until recently".

Suddenly, I was no longer that library rat and that book grinder people knew me. I became some sort of celebrity.

During the next class, I was no longer hiding. In fact, I started to admire myself. I started to look at my arms, covered with the elastic membrane, all the way to the joints of my hands. Beneath the desk, could see my blouse-dress, covering my body. My knees, covered with the elastic membrane, are visible too. I looked at my sandals, at my feet, covered with the shiny membrane. I was like a girl, but with a penis... and a vagina. I was no longer hiding myself.

After the next class finished, I went back to the balcony. I was like any student girl... or even more. I decided to smoke in a fetish way, to pose sexy, like I never did before. My feminine gestures, remnants from past lives, helped me a lot.

I remember myself at the railway university, posing in similar ways. Even older memories come to my mind, from when I was in other places. I started to feel proud of my body, of my feminine voice and of my new identity.

What I found the most surprising is that after I bitten that bully, I was no longer a nobody. In the next pause, he walked by, looked at me and did not dare to say a single word. He just moved on. I could see frustration on his face.

During the last pause and the last class, I tried to figure out something. In almost all our past lives, we were together. I told you before that before each reincarnation, we planned our lives, we planned how to get together, how to live together. We found one each other each time. And if we didn't, we tried the best in the next life. But now, I wonder: Are we alone? Isn't there anyone else we've seen many times around? Isn't there anyone traveling with us? And the answer came very soon.

In the old times, when we lived in ancient America, we were part of a group. This is how people usually reincarnate: in groups. And this is exactly what happened to us many times there. We were part of a group. We were part of a group of about 15 people, which always came together. The first time, we came to ancient Africa. Then, we changed group and moved to ancient America, where we spent most of our reincarnations before the arrival of Europeans.

Why souls reincarnate in bulks? Because they want to be with their friends. It is our freedom to chose where we want to spend our next life. However, we move along a certain evolution path. Each time, we try to learn something. Each time, we try to achieve an objective. Some of us spend many lives passing a stop, while others, in a single life, can reach the top of it. We evolved faster then others. This forced us to abandon our group.

At home, people like us are called 'wanderers'. We are usually not part of a group. Still, we followed a common path. After the conquest of America by Europeans, most souls moved decided to reincarnate in Central Asia and surrounding places. In the same way, many souls from ancient Greece and Roman Empire moved later to Western Europe and then to Northern America. We lost our group of souls, but still followed the same direction they followed. When we were at home, we could see it very clear.

Then, I realize something else. People are free to select the life they want to live when they are home. What they cannot chose, is when. I remember how many fought as hard as possible to avoid returning to Earth, but in the end, it is imminent. Wonderers have more freedom and can spend more time there. We can even chose to remain here, but this will stop our soul evolution. But still, why did we return? What is the reason we came? I cannot remember.

Narrator speaking

Julia and Sandra meet in the park like always. After they smoke together, they go, buy some food and return to their room. They are very tired, but very happy for passing with success their first day as hermaphrodites.

The truth always hurts (ancient saying).

Caution: contains scene of a murder, smoking scenes

The news about Julia and Sandra spread like the flash of a lightning. Televisions came, reporters asked them for interviews, many organizations wanted them to be their honorific members. In only a few weeks, everyone was talking about. Julia's transformation from a girl and Sandra's transformation from a guy, both into hermaphrodites, reached the front pages of many news corporations. Reporters were everywhere for a while. It was known as the surgery of the century.

But even more interesting, was the fact that they can now remember their past lives like it all happened yesterday. They remember the languages they used to speak. Linguists want to record samples for their research. Historians want to ask them key questions about the past. As everyone speculated, many aspects of the history are covered with false information, because the winner writes the history.

In the 2500's, many scientific discoveries, like the supercomputers able to read memories from past lives, proved that reincarnation is something real. For some people, this began a new religion. For others, it is a way of controlling people and oppressing other religions. What happened to Julia and Sandra is the best proof that reincarnation is real. Many scientists, studying this subject, wanted to visit Julia and Sandra, to take them interviews and to examine their past memories from past lives. Some, even offered them huge sums of money in exchange for an interview.

Once the professor heard about that, he decided to visit Julia and Sandra in their room. He waited them both to end their day at school, watched them and went directly after them. He knocked at the door and entered.

"Professor", said Sandra, "it's an honor to have a visit from you".

"Can we serve you with something?" asks Julia.

"No, my children", said the professor. "I came to you because you are in great danger. Stop talking to any stranger until you graduate the university! People are watching you and some are willing to kill you for the truth you can reveal".

"Who would do such a thing?" asks Sandra, surprised.

"Those from the HRF", says the professor. "The Humanity Reincarnation Foundation".

"But why?" asks Julia, surprised. "Isn't that the reason you transformed us, to reveal the truth?"

"Yes", says the professor. "But, the HRF is world's authority on reincarnation studies. They built a religion out of this, instead of using a scientific approach. Analyze their points of view and you will see that thy are saying lies. My life-long research proves that they are wrong. I am part of the Resistance, a group of scientists that seek the truth. You will reveal the truth, but not now. You have to grow, to graduate the university and then go to a safe place. There, nobody will ever stop you. Be careful what you say, even now, they are watching you".

The professor looks at them both, then says:

"I came to this life for a reason: to make you know the truth. You will no longer see me here, because my time is up. There is only one thing I can do to ensure your protection. The HRF wants you dead for what you know and for what you are. Stop talking about your past experiences for now. Just say that you need time to prepare yourself for the coming exams. Finish your school and then go to the place that is prepared for you".

After this, he opens the door, saying:

"Himalia base".

He leaves, letting both with many questions.

**********

The professor walks through the park, then calls a taxi. He asks the driver to let him on a road in the middle of nowhere and go. He stops on a small bridge, waiting. Soon, a hovering car comes. Two bullies, armed, step out of the vehicle. An old woman comes, looking to the professor.

"Professor Honorius", says the professor, "do what you are here to do and do it fast".

"I told you many times to stop", says the woman. "You know well that the HRF is against your points of view".

"All I do is to search for the truth", answers the professor.

"You know well the truth", says the woman. "There is no hell, there is no haven, we just evolve through our reincarnations with the purpose to prepare the future for the new world order".

"You are not in control of humanity's destine", says the professor.

"The Universe created us, humans, for this purpose. The Universe is alive and the Universe is God", says the woman.

"No", continues the professor. "You are wrong and my researches proved that things are different".

"Listen to me carefully, cause I am not saying this twice to you", says the woman. "If I hear any more lies from those hermaphrodites or from you, you will all die. This is not a warning! Reverse their minds, remove all fake data you've inserted to their brains, like the world of souls and the right to chose your next reincarnation. It is all false data".

"They are just children", says the professor, "but I am not. You might reduce them to silence, but not me. I will never stop talking as long as I am alive".

"That's enough!" says the woman. "If you don't value your life, maybe you value theirs!"

The professor looks around, looks the woman in her eyes, then says with a strong voice:

"I know you well. And you know the truth as well as I do. Once, we were partners, professor Honorius. We were part of the same team".

"We were, but I regret it", says the woman.

"All you do is for money, all I do is for science. And you know that we both met in the world of souls. You know very well what will happen to those who use their lives in a bad manner. Add bad karma over bad karma and you will reach the critical point, where you are too dangerous for another reincarnation. Just as happened to Hitler's soul. You will get to hell, aren't you? You are getting to hell and there is no escape from that, because there is no way you can change".

"Hell doesn't exist!" says the woman, almost shouting.

"Oh yes, it does", says the professor, whispering. "It awaits you, as well as haven awaits me".

The woman looks down, thinking for a while, then says:

"Perhaps you're right. Perhaps more. Save your life, cause if I don't stop you, others will kill you".

"What do you want me to do?" says the professor. "To tell the world that I lied? You know very well that I didn't lie with anything. But what will your bosses say if you don't kill me and tomorrow I will start a new thesis about reincarnation, exposing all your lies?"

"If you don't stop", says the woman, "those children will die. Are you ready to accept their deaths?"

The professor says: "Their deaths will only make the world suspect your conspiracy. People expect you to come to them and talk to them, but you didn't. Their deaths will make everyone more interested in what these two kids tried to say, questioning your lies. And most important, this will make people realize that you killed them. People will start to wonder, especially since it is not the first time someone is killed for knowing things you don't agree with".

"Bullshit!" says the woman. "The HRF is world's leading authority in reincarnation. But you, you are a nobody compared to me".

"Oh yeah?" says the professor. "But what if I write a thesis about this? How about Samantha, which you killed two months ago? What about Jim Thunder and Roger Whispers, which you killed nearly two years ago, only for speaking the truth?"

"I didn't kill you because we were together in many past lives", says the woman. "But now, this is it. It looks like now I will have to kill you".

"I know, that's why I am here", says the professor. "Just tell me. You know what will happen to you after death, you know how I fought several times in the world of souls to save you. Why are you still continuing this? You made a pact with the devils?"

The woman doesn't say a word, but she moves her head showing this is true. They stand for a while, without moving.

"Professor, what should we do?" asks one of the armed men.

The woman does not answer anything.

"Professor?" says the other armed man.

"I regret that I met you", says the professor. "You are a shame for my entire existence".

"Give me the gun!" says the woman.

She takes a weapon and throws a powerful jet of plasma. The professor falls down on the road, while the woman keeps shooting, burning his clothes and his body. She then hits the professor with her boots with anger.

"Sir", says one of the armed men, "I hear a vehicle coming. We should run!"

"That's what we will do", says the woman, after piercing a knife through professor's heart. "We've bribed the surveillance teams and the police. We should go now".

**********

When Sandra and Julia heard that the professor was found dead, burned and with a knife in his heart, they decided to keep complete silence. No trial started, no police investigations followed, all was left like if nobody was interested in the subject. Some televisions came to them and asked for an interview, but they refused.

A few days later, Julia and Sandra were called at the directorate, where the second most important person in the university told them in secret:

"I know what happened to the professor. As long as you are here, you're safe. But if you walk outside from the university, you are at your own risk. They will kill you".

"What should we do?" they ask.

"Keep silence. Explore your past memories and get yourselves prepared. Your time will come".

The most important person in the university, said something completely different to them:

"You two, shut up! You don't know what happened to the professor, you no longer remember anything from past lives and you get the best possible results at the exams that are coming! If not, I will send you back to Earth".

From that moment on, they kept silence. They spent the last year at the university, learning and trying to be the best students possible. Even at professor's funerals, they did not go, knowing that someone might be looking to kill them.

**********

But memories form past lives still came to their minds, each time more accurate. They could remember a lot of things with a shocking precision. Only that, now, they talked about this subject only in their room, where, it seems like nobody could listen. After a while, the press stopped visiting them at all. There are other more important subjects, like economic news, terrorist attacks and the colonization of other solar systems.

One day, they come from school, eat something and go directly to their room, to learn for the coming exams. After this, they sit on the bed. Both are dressed in the same way, with a blouse-skirt, elastic membranes covering their whole bodies and sandals, looking more like women then like men.

Julia lights a cigarette and passes it to Sandra, then she lights another one for herself.

"No matter how hard I try", she says, "I cannot remember the professor before we came to this life".

"His purpose in life was to illuminate us", says Sandra, blowing a cloud of smoke.

"He prepared himself for this", continues Julia, playing with her cigarette. "All his life, he fought for it. Maybe he will tell us after we return home".

"He did this for a reason", continues Sandra. "And he wants us to tell the world the truth, when we will be prepared".

"I am sure the HRF killed him", continues Julia.

"The HRF", says Julia with a bitter voice, turning on a portable 3D computer. "I tried to take a look at their official points of view. Wow, these people show a completely different story about reincarnation then the one we see. They say that reincarnation occurs almost automatic and deny the existence of home at all. They deny any haven or hell".

"But we've seen things far more different", says Sandra.

"Their official explanation for us is that the professor brainwashed us", says Julia, searching on the internet.

"Wait", says Sandra, seeing a picture. "You see that woman? Professor Elara Honorius, talking about us and accusing the professor for inserting fake data into our brains. I think I remember her".

"Me to", answers Julia. "People look similar between two incarnations. And souls look similar to their past reincarnation. However, after many lives, souls change their appearance and so do their bodies. But this woman, I remember her".

Sandra takes a deep drag and blows the smoke into the screen, trying to zoom in her image.

"I remember her", says Sandra. She appeared on TV during our incarnation in the 2200's. She wanted war against all Muslims for the nuclear attack in Vatican".

"Later, it was confirmed that the same terrorists who nuked Vatican also nuked Mecca and Jerusalem", adds Julia. "She tried the best to start a war against the Muslims, saying they are the only ones capable of such an abomination".

Julia takes Sandra's hand and searches on the internet about the Vatican incident. Yes, there was a woman, Eve Milano, which looks very similar, even if she lived in the 2200's. Shocking similar. Eve tried to influence all Christian states to start a crusade against Islam. She was a member and an active speaker of the Catholic Brotherhood. In the end, Eve was condemned to five years in prison for bribery. She gave a bribe to the speaker of an Islamic organization, to make dangerous declarations which could start a new world war.

"I know she is the same person", says Julia. "But it is hard to remember anything about her at home. Maybe she was in another place".

"I do remember something", answers Sandra. "I think I've seen her as a lonely woman, isolated from all of us. But nothing more".

"Usually, those who have made bad things in life, try to avoid everyone else at home and try to get to a new reincarnation as soon as possible", says Julia.

"Their angels keep them in a separate room for a while and try to make them realize all bad things they've done", says Sandra. "After the angel is sure that you realized how bad are the things you've done, it lets you enter home. Less then 5% of souls have a sociopathic behavior and feel pleasure in torturing others. But there is an even smaller percent, those who are so addicted on doing bad things, that simply are too dangerous and are locked in hell".

"I know", says Julia. "The main criteria is love. If you love and understand other people, you don't need to worry about anything".

They both light a new cigarette, looking on the HRF site.

"We ended our past life with a positive karma", says Julia. "We could stay there, but we decided to come back. We are here for a reason".

"I cannot remember anything", says Sandra. "I remember when we were planning this life, how we were standing in a room with many screens, where we could see our life, how we chosen our bodies, how we talked and placed all details about why and what will we do in here. But I cannot remember what we were talking, what is the reason we are here and... very important, I don't remember the professor at all".

"Maybe he didn't want us to remember this part", answers Julia. "Or, maybe he incarnated before us. I don't know. What I know for sure, is that he didn't lie us about anything".

We are guilty for all the suffering we produce to others. Following the orders like a blind horse does not excuse us from this (an officer in the 2nd world war).

Caution: contains a discussion about sexual relations in the future

Julia and Sandra graduated the Galileo university on Callisto - Jupiter with good marks. They are the first hermaphrodite couple ever to do so and the first couple in history to change gender from male (Sandra - David) and female (Julia) to hermaphrodite. The year is 2541.

But even if this is a historical first, the event was not a subject for mass-media. Only a few online newspapers wrote about it as a footnote. The only ones who realized this is a first and who tried to take them an interview, were those from Intersex TV and Free Soul News, both owned by some LGBT organizations. The two answered briefly about the subject. In fact, they focused on their mission, to go to Himalia and tell the world the truth about reincarnation and about past lives.

The professor told them to go to Himalia base. Those were his last words.

What is Himalia? Why Himalia base?

Himalia is an outer moon of Jupiter and it is considered the gateway to Jupiter. Cargo and passenger ships are huge, sometimes over 10 km long. Such ships cannot land on a planet and moon with high gravity. So, they ferry between space stations. The inner planets and some large asteroids have their own orbital stations: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Ceres. However, where a moon is suitable for such a task, the station is built on a moon. Mars uses Phobos, Jupiter uses Himalia, Saturn uses Helene, Uranus uses Perdita and Neptune uses Halimede.

Himalia is a small moon, with a diameter of only 150 km and with a very small gravity. Despite this, the base is huge, with many platforms built for ships of all sizes. It has all the facilities required for docking, transshipment of cargo and passengers, for hosting people waiting for a ship and for repairing damaged ships. Nearly half of the surface is covered with buildings and there are many structures built underground. Everything that Jupiter exports and imports, goes through Himalia. Almost every person that comes here, be it settler, tourist or someone just passing by, goes to Himalia. Even more, this moon hosts the military force of Jupiter Federation, which has the task to stop terrorist attacks and to deflect comets and asteroids that might pose a risk to the other moons. A significant police force is stationed here to stop traffickers which try to smuggle drugs, forbidden technology and people.

Once they come here, Julia and Sandra realize why the professor sent them here. It is the safest place in the Solar System. It is impossible to leave Himalia without a checkout. Everything is recorded on cameras. Nobody can attack anyone here. With so many police and military forces, it is impossible to kill someone and get out from the moon.

It is easy to find a job here. It took them just a day. Sandra got a job at traffic surveillance, while Julia found a job at cargo transshipping. Both will sit in front of an interactive screen and will collaborate with many people on the base, both in the rooms where they will work and by radio. Finding a home was also not difficult. The base offers apartments to all workers for the time they will work here. Their apartment is small, but much larger then the room they lived in at the university. It is built underground, in the same place where all employees live. As they soon found out, on the route from work to their apartment, there is no place where they can be alone. People are walking in all directions. The base is crowded all the time... and still lacks the needed personnel.

The first days at work were very hard. Ships come and go in large groups when planetary alignments allow for the cheapest passages, which occur all the time to a destination or another. Then, they started to adapt to this new environment, to the almost complete absence of gravity and to the ever-crowded places that surround the base.

Soon, the two realize that they have a great opportunity. They have a job that provides them with enough money to sustain themselves and they have enough time to explore their past lives and write about them. Here, they are perfectly safe. They can write all their memories here, safely, at home. nobody will dare to attack them on Himalia.

**********

The following part is added by request.

Many people would ask what kind of a relationship is between Julia and Sandra? Since they both are hermaphrodites, what kind of love can be between the two? Is it a platonic relation or do they have sex? Well, in the 2500's, things are far more different then in the 2000's. Many violent incidents changed the history of sex in these 500 Earth years. Sometimes, mass media can change the way people see things in only a few years, but 500 years will change things dramatically.

After the AIDS, the world witnessed four major diseases transmitted by sex in the 2100's and early 2200's. All ended-up with millions of deaths. Religious leaders showed that this was a punishment from God for our sinful way of life, while doctors failed repeated times to find a solution to the problem. In a desperate attempt to solve this, governments recommended people to stop having sex with untested partners and turn towards masturbation to calm down their sexual needs.

In the 2200's and the 2300's, something else happened. The industry of sex invented sex toys that can offer far more pleasure then the conventional intercourse. Virtual reality companies developed virtual environments that are more attractive then the real world. Sex moved from reality to the world of simulation. The development of virtual sex was sponsored by many governments, desperate to stop the four viruses that were transmitted through intercourse. However, this came with a major problem. People turned from real life to virtual relations, from sex to simulations. The rate of marriages decreased dramatically. Far less children were born, until the world seen a massive depopulation coming on all continents.

Then came the space colonization era, in a time when human population was decreasing dramatically. In the late 2300's and in the 2400's, the new states fought for independence from Earth. It happened. Then, the new states started a campaign to attract settlers. Since world population is decreasing, the new states tried in any possible way to force women to have children. In many cases, sexual aggression was tolerated, abortion was banned and people were forced to have children. As a direct result, the four sexual diseases, together with AIDS, appeared again.

Things changed again in the late 2400's. with a strong women's emancipation movement. Surprisingly, not only women, but also many men protested on the streets of almost every town. In many cases, protests ended-up with violence. People were mostly shouting two things: couple life is old fashioned and sex is old fashioned. Sexual minorities strongly supported the campaign.

In this time, governments turned to a new idea: growing embryos in incubators and then growing the artificial children, to compensate the lack of population. It is a very expensive process, still. These are called cloned children.

Now, in the 2500's, this campaign lost power, but it already made strong transformations in the society. The way people perceive sexual relations in the 2500's is completely different. Classic intercourse is far more rare, but on the other hand, virtual sex and the use of sex toys is extremely common. These methods offer more satisfaction, since they are able to produce a much more powerful orgasm, but are almost harmless for others. Sexual abuse in the 2500's is extremely rare. Almost everyone prefers the new approach to sex, even if the correct word should be improved masturbation. There are many couples which experienced classic intercourse only a few times in years.

In the 2500's, having classic sex is something less accepted, while oral and anal sex are considered almost as abominations. However, modern sex, as people call it, is very common. Sometimes it happens even in public areas. There are places where modern sex is done in group, like certain areas on beaches, designated places around clubs and not only. Public sex (in fact public masturbation, sometimes with the help of toys), is something tolerated in society, but only in certain areas. Even in high schools and universities, such places exist. Children are taking sex lessons at school, where they learn that classic sex is very dangerous, with risks of diseases and risks of getting pregnant, while modern sex is a natural way to release hormonal pressure.

Even more, there are many cases when modern sex occurs during parties or with friends. Even in many families, children do this while their parents are around or with their brothers or sisters, without feeling it as an incest... and technically it isn't.

The introduction of modern sex changed things beyond anything. Now, it doesn't matter if you are heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual or you belong to any sexual minority, since intercourse is something very rare. This stopped almost all conflicts between mainstream population and sexual minorities.

So, to answer the question. What type of relationship is between Sandra and Julia?

At a young age, they started exploring the modern sex, after they heard about it from school or from their parents. They practiced it for many years, when they were on Earth and later on Jupiter. Being very shy, they never went to buy sex toys, but each of them had a computer and each could easily visit a virtual simulator.

After they transformed into hermaphrodites, a few things changed. First, they wanted to explore their sexuality. This happened very soon after surgery. Without any toy, they produced themselves an orgasm on their new organs. I don't know if this happened while they were alone or together for the first time. They never told me in detail about their sexual life. What I know is that, for them, an orgasm of one genital triggers the orgasm of another genital. So, after a female orgasm, the male orgasm comes in seconds and vice versa. Also, I know that, at some point, they tried to have classic sex. Since they are hermaphrodites, they could easily change roles, who will be the man and who will be the woman. I asked them about double penetration and they did not want to answer anything. I presume that they prefer modern sex, but still practice classic sex sometimes.

Well, this is less important for our story. The important part is that, in the time they stayed on Himalia, they finally found the truth about reincarnation, about the world of souls, about where we come from and where we ultimately go, about who is in charge of all this and about the origin and fate of the Universe.

There are so many things in this life that we don't understand (The Oracle - Matrix).

Caution: smoking scenes, limited erotic scenes and violent memories from past lives

2542, Himalia - Jupiter

Julia and Sandra sleep together in their home on Himalia - Jupiter. They start to wake-up, kissing, cuddling and touching themselves. They are in love. The fact that they are both hermaphrodites does not block their feelings.

Sandra moves her hand down and finds Julia's penis to be erected. She starts playing with it, then with her pussy. Julia feels the pleasure and twitches, then she also moves her both hands to play with Sandra's genitals. Sandra moans of pleasure, kissing Julia in response. They keep doing this for a while, knowing that it is not time to go to work yet. It doesn't take long until they reach their orgasm, which occurs nearly at the same time for both of them.

Then, they lie on bed, still very sleepy. Suddenly, Julia screams in a North Caucasian language:

"My children! For the holly name of Allah! Why my children?"

"Julia, are you ok?" asks Sandra.

Her scream made them both wake-up. Julia has tears in her eyes and looks scared.

"I remember our lives in the 1800's" she says, shaking. "Our 3 children, all died of starvation".

"It's ok", says Sandra. "I am here. We are safe now. Drink some water".

Sandra comes with a box of water. In low gravity, like on the tiny moon Himalia, you cannot drink from a cup or a glass.

Julia drinks some water, then goes to the bathroom to wash herself. A spray of cold water on her face wakes her completely. Then, she lights a cigarette. A small trail of smoke gets out of her nostrils, then she exhales on her mouth.

"Sorry", says Julia.

"No problem", answers Sandra, preparing something to eat. "I know, in the 1800's, we had a very hard life. We died of starvation and so did our children".

1861, Northern Caucasus

It's still night, but morning will come soon. Junit and her husband Aiub are sleeping together. They start waking-up and as this happens, they start to kiss and cuddle. Their kisses become more passionate and they start making love.

After this, they lie in bed for a while. On another bed, near them, their three children sleep together. The sky turns from black to dark blue. They wake-up. Aiub looks around, grabs a piece of cheese and some cold cornmeal, then starts dressing-up. He knows that there is not much food left, so he carefully takes only enough to temper his hunger. He takes his cloak, checking if he has enough bullets left. Not many. He takes his gun and the sword, then kisses Junit and leaves, to take his horse and go to fight.

Junit wakes-up completely after his kiss, saying:

"May you come back safe and may your sword be red!"

Aiub gets out of the house and takes his horse. He knows the bitter truth and tells it to his horse, Bziu, like if talking to another person:

"My friend, we are only a few hundreds to keep the gorge protected, but the enemies are tens of thousands. We don't even have many bullets left. We have to sell our blood for weapons".

Not long ago, they lived in a village downstream from the gorge, but the Russians invaded with a huge army. It was not quite a battle. They burned the crops, they poisoned the fountains, they used artillery against the former village. When they came, they burned the village and killed anything they found. Those who managed to survive, ran to the mountains, hoping the gorge will hold on.

From the mountain path, Aiub can see beyond the gorge, where the valley is larger, where once he and his family lived peacefully. Now, a Russian village is being built.

"Poor Junit! My children, they don't know".

**********

Junit wakes up and prepares some food for the children. She milks the cows. This is all they have: milk, cheese and some cornmeal. Then, she hears noise. Two men come, one riding a donkey and one riding a horse. Junit looks very afrade, knowing what this is all about.

"It is your turn", says one of them.

"No!" screams Junit! "Why me? You said it will be only for those who don't fight well!"

"I know", says the same man, "but we run out of bullets. We have to sell children to the Turks".

Junit screams, but she knows it very well things must be done this way. The two men take one of the children, which screams, wanting to remain home.

"My children! For the holly name of Allah! Why my children?" screams Junit, falling on the ground.

2542, Himalia - Jupiter

Sandra gets dressed for work. She looks at her body, covered in a black, elastic all-in-one, lights a cigarette and touches her foot.

"What is wrong?" asks Julia.

"Nothing", says Sandra, blowing a small cloud of smoke. "I remember when that bullet pierced my leg, in the war".

"It all belongs to the past", says Julia. "We know why we chosen to live in those mountains".

"I know", continues Sandra. "I want to take boots today, it makes me remember those riding boots I used to have".

"I will go bare foot today", says Julia. "This is how I walked around the house".

Sandra takes knee-long boots and changes their color to black, while Julia makes her blouse-dress to be white and long, reaching to her ankles. They go to work.

1862, Northern Caucasus

Men are fighting to protect the gorge, to keep the Russians from advancing. A fierce battle. 150 people try to hold behind an army of thousands. Suddenly, they run out of bullets and gun powder. Now, they only have their swords. Men try to form a barrage in the gorge, fighting against bullets and cannons.

Suddenly a bullet pierces Aiub's foot. He falls down, screaming of pain, but this saved his life. Just above him, a cannon ball passed, hitting a huge rock. Other men advice him to move behind.

But where to go? Just behind them, a large group of Russian soldiers appears in the gorge.

"Someone betrayed us!" whispers a man.

"someone showed them the path in the forest", whispers Aiub, hardly moving.

Everyone stops fignting. One general comes with a translator, saying:

"We have you surrounded. But since I am a man of mercy, I give you a choice. Take your families and go to the sea. You will be shipped to the Ottoman Empire. If not, your village will be erased from the face of the Earth".

This was it. The end of the fight. The soldiers forced everyone from the gorge and from the village to a march towards the sea coast.

2542, Himalia - Jupiter

Julia arrives at work like usually. One of her coworkers asks her:

"Oh my gosh! Where are your sandals?"

"We move around by flying and grabbing on handles on the walls" she answers. "Walking in low gravity like here, is impossible".

**********

Sandra arrives at work and starts her job. At some point, a coworker comes with pancakes.

"Want some?" he asks Sandra.

"Yes, thank you".

"You like them? I don't. Next time, I will no longer buy from that shop".

"They are very good", answers Sandra.

1862, Black Sea Coast

The whole village, together with many other villages, arrive to the Black Sea shores. There, carefully guarded by soldiers, they wait to be loaded on boats and shipped as refugees to the Ottoman Empire. They wait for many days, without food. Some try to eat roots and leaves.

Many people can no longer walk. Many have fever and diarrhea. The soldiers are treating the refugees worse then animals, beating them and screaming them, to take the deceased ones into the sea.

In those days, the sea became red of all the blood that was wasted into it.

Junit and Aiub lose their second child, a boy, which dies of starvation. Now, they only have one child left.

Finally, some boats come, taking those who are still healthy. Those who are unable to walk, are dropped in the sea.

"The fish had a feast with our brothers and sisters", says an old man. "We shall never eat fish".

**********

The boats, filled up to the limits, carry the survivals. Many still die of starvation and diseases on the way. But, when they arrive, what is to see? You arrive in a strange land, with no food and nothing to do. And that new land is poor.

In desperation, Junit and Aiub decide to sell their last child a girl, on the price of a goat. Even if this is very hard, they realize that this is her only chance to survive. She will end-up as a sex slave in a harem and will die soon.

Julia's notes

It was the hardest life I ever imagined. I worked all day long for a little bowl of soup. I could see corpses anywhere, people died of starvation and diseases. It was like a bad dream that never ends. But this was not over for me. In 1866, I was still beautiful, despite having such a harsh life.

Then, a Turk took me by force, raped me and killed me. That was a painful experience, like the death of our three children.

How could I resist to all this? The answer lies in something that many people will not accept: bilocation. As we incarnate, a part of our souls remain home, in the spiritual world. A soul puts only part of its energy into a reincarnation, keeping the rest at home. In that time, because of too much suffering, my soul decided to start another, much more happy life. I lived two lives at once, one very happy, of a woman, a fortune teller. I came to the Northern Caucasus in 1829 and died in 1866. But, in the day our first child was sold for weapons, in 1862, I incarnated again. It was a short life, which ended in 1901. It was that life, with its happiness, which kept my soul on balance. Without it, I couldn't survive.

When I finally returned home from the parallel life, Sandra was waiting me.

We decided to reincarnate in the 2000's, but we changed roles. I was a man and Sandra was a woman. We returned to the mountains. Still, the pain from that rape, combined with a sexual abuse in the 2000's, made me be a sfenist.

The beauty of those mountains and the pain that we've lost them, made us return there.

Sandra's notes

What can I say? My life in the 1800's was very painful. The death of our children, the death of my wife, the fact that we were force to leave our homeland... With one injured foot, I could hardly work anything. I fought to survive and died in 1885, of starvation.

What is the reason of all this? Why did we chose to take such a harsh life? Is it because we had a negative karma from past lives? No. We went there for a reason, to learn a lesson. To learn about pain and suffering.

One might consider souls like insects. A butterfly is beautiful, but until it evolves to that stage, it has to go through many small stages, each one looking like a worm. Insect larvae grow, then enter a sleep, when they change skin, then grow again, like if they went back to life. This is how the cycle of reincarnations work, just like the many stages of an insect until it becomes a butterfly.

Still, there is a major difference. Some people learn their lessons, some don't. Those who understand their lessons well enough, can fly in a single life through many stages. Those who never understand it... or worse, keep on doing the same mistakes, may never pass even the first stage.

Narrator speaking

Each evening, Julia and Sandra write about their past experiences. They write personal memories, then write some paragraphs together, as a conclusion. This is what they wrote about their lives in the 1800's:

The main lesson we have to learn is love. We have to understand to love and accept others as they are and don't interfere with their freedom to chose their paths. This is the lesson we are here to learn. There are other lessons, of course, but this is the most important. Everything else derives from here. Once you got this lesson, everything opens around you.

It is true that people reincarnate usually along the same lines and in the same groups... and that they usually return home in the same groups. Changes occur over time, mainly if a soul rises and falls too much in understanding the law of love.

What happened in the 1800's, was a huge genocide. The nations of the Northern Caucasus almost faced their doom, but their souls survived. And just like most people from Central Asia, they are reincarnations of native Americans that lived before Columbus. Again, what happened to native Americans was also an act of genocide.

Are these people made only to suffer?

No. Their harsh experiences helped them erase any negative karma and earn a lot of positive karma instead. The lessons they learned helped them upgrade their souls to a next stage much faster then others.

What happened to those who committed the genocides?

In a short answer, just what happens to students who fail their exams: repeat the class.

Note from the author: It is incorrect to judge a whole nation. Even if most people will follow a certain path, there will be many exceptions. I am strongly against racism and discrimination. I just want to point out an important lesson about the many anthracites we see in history and their effects on our souls, from the perspective of reincarnation. Also, I want to point out the existence of some soul highways. It was statistically proven that most (but not all) people from a place of the world or from an ethnic group followed common routes in their past lives:

Highway 1: Ancient Greece & Roman Empire - Western Medieval Europe - Northern America

Highway 2: Ancient Persia - Byzantine Empire - Russia

Highway 3: Chinese people, staying in their Geographic areas.

Highway 4: Europe, complex movements inside and surrounding the continent

Now, I am trying to show the existence of highway 5 and that many people from places surrounding the Aral Sea basin actually lived in ancient America.

If you ask a man on the street to tell you an important figure from World War 2, the answer will be Adolf Hitler (a newspaper, 1999).

Caution: smoking scenes and limited scenes of violence

In the 2000's, thousands of people claimed to be the reincarnation of Hitler. Some came with shocking proves. Is there an explanation to this? Is Hitler walking among us? If not, when will he return? And where did his soul come from?

Sandra returns from work and finds Julia on the way. They both get home, eat something, then light a cigarette. Sandra is dressed with a shiny, black all-in-one, which covers her body perfectly. Only the skirt is white and adjusted a bit longer then her knees. She wears black knee-long boots. Julia wears a white blouse-dress, which also copies the shape of her body. The skirt, which is black, is adjusted above her knees and the sleeves are set short, exposing her elbows. She wears white sandals. Sandra painted her nails in white, while Julia in black.

"Do you remember when I came from the 1800's reincarnation?" asks Julia, blowing a cloud of smoke in the room.

"I do", answers Sandra, taking her cigarette to the mouth. "You died before me, but you came later".

"Because I decided to take a parallel life", continues Julia. "I did this while still living on Earth, because I could not support the pain, to see our children sold".

"I did not know at the moment, but I waited you", answers Sandra. "I died in 1891, old, sick and starving on the streets of Istanbul".

"We suffered a lot, but it worked", continues Julia. "We upgraded our souls from green to blue level. And so did our children, they passed into a higher level, because of all the pain they suffered".

"I know", answers Sandra, playing with her cigarette. "But the price... how much sufferance. I am amazed we could survive without going insane".

"But there was one soul that everyone was talking about", says Julia, letting a trail of smoke out of her mouth while speaking. "That was Hister. Everyone was talking about him. Even you, when we met again at home. Remember how everyone was speaking about him?"

"The bloodhound is out!" says Sandra. "That was the word, the bloodhound is out. Everyone called him Hister there".

1945, souls' home

There is a place which souls call home. This is where they come after each life. The home is huge, complex, a whole universe parallel to ours. There, time is not flowing in a linear way. Centuries there can be second here... and seconds there can be centuries here.

In that huge place, a part of our souls stay while we are in our universe. We never leave home completely. As we arrive, our angel awaits us and takes us to a separate place, where we can see what good and what bad we did in life. After this, after making us understand the importance of our choices, we can enter the main place, where souls of our friends and not only, are usually staying. There are huge rooms where we learn and where we prepare for our next life.

How does home look like? Everyone sees it differently. The purity of your soul, the total amount of good and bad things you carry (your karma), all influences the way you see that place. It is a place where a few meters become light years and light years become meters. Distances are irrelevant, just like time.

What brings us here from home? It is the negative karma we carry, together with the desire to evolve, to upgrade yourself. And for evolved souls, it is the will to help others.

How does a soul upgrade? By learning the lessons of each life. Some require many lives to pass a single level, while others require a single life to pass many levels. The main lesson is love, to love and understand, to respect every living creature and not interfere with others' freedom. Still, there is a way to upgrade without love, but very hard. Some souls follow that path, but the price paid is huge.

What are the levels of soul evolution? Many tried to categorize them, based on various principles. It is not a step-by-step evolution. In fact, it is a continuous line. The best analogy is the rainbow, which can be divided into seven colors, plus the ones before and after visual light. As you slowly move along the rainbow, the color also changes gradually. So, there are no two identical souls, placed on the same level. Still, if we make an analogy with the color, we can divide souls into a few distinct categories:

Level 0: infrared, before achieving human form.

Level 1: red, youngest soul. Their task is to integrate to themselves.

Level 2: orange. Their task is to integrate with the others.

Level 3: yellow. Their task is to understand what karma is.

Up to this level, souls integrate in our world. Beyond, they focus on helping others, they interfere with the others and think more about others then about themselves. Also, when they are home, they start to receive tasks in our Universe.

Level 4: green. They learn how to manipulate inorganic matter.

Level 5: blue. They learn how to make bacteria and life.

Level 6: indigo. They learn how to supervise others, both working in our Universe or at home.

Level 7: violet. They are able to create matter.

Beyond this level, a soul reaches a very high level and is unable to reincarnate, becoming invisible to inferior levels.

And now, back to Hitler.

Julia and Sandra are at home. Because all the time they evolved faster then the others, they lost connection with former friend souls they lived with. They are called wanderers, free to incarnate when they want. Their harsh life in the Northern Caucasus in the 1800's allowed them to pass from level 4 to level 5, which also allows them to visit places that were forbidden for them before.

So, when Hitler died, they, drawn by curiosity, came to see it, just as his soul reached home.

"You were given a chance, Hister!", says his angel, with much compassion.

"Die! Just die!" shouts Hitler with anger, trying to hit anything around, including himself.

Julia and Sandra watch from distance, together with many souls, trying to see what is happening. Hitler's soul is not listening to anything, trying to kill everything around. But, how can you kill something here? So much anger, so much frustration, but also an incredible pain. It's the pain for all his bad decisions, of all the people he made to suffer.

"If you realize you've done much bad things, there is a way for you", says the angel.

"Die you all!" he shouts. "I know this place. I've been here before. I want to get back!"

"There is no way" says his angel. "If I let you, you will do the same. You've done too much bad already. The hell awaits you".

Communication between souls is not by spoken words, it is telepathic and it happens instantly. And it does not include just words, it includes also feelings. Still, if two touch each other, they can have a private communication. Hitler talks to his angel something this way, but the angel answers loud and clear, so that everyone can hear:

"No!"

"I did all this for a purpose", he continues. "My intentions were good. I wanted a new world order. And now?"

"You committed suicide", answers the angel. "This more then doubles your bad karma. I wonder how many lives you need to pay for all this".

"I will have my time".

"Not now", says the angel. "Among those who are here, many suffered from your hands and your orders. They should judge you".

Now, Julia and Sandra realize why there are so many souls around. Millions, watching the whole scene. Just a look in their eyes and you can see it all. You can see their last life, their homes destroyed, villages burned, their deaths and their lost ones.

"Stalin is worse then me", tries Hitler to defend.

"He will have his time and he might pay harder then you", says the angel. "But now, it's about you. As should be correct, they should judge you".

There are many souls around. Some of them still have a life going on Earth, some are completely returned. Surprisingly, there is not the hate one would expect. At home, everyone realizes the importance of love. On the eyes of almost everyone, the answer can be seen:

"Give him a new chance if he feels sorry for all. If not, keep him away from Earth, he will do worse things there".

Julia and Sandra touch each other, to have a private conversation.

"He is too proud to accept".

"Then, what will happen?"

Hitler tries to lie, but it's impossible. Here, words don't exist. You try to speak, you release even your most hidden thoughts. Everyone can see even beyond his last life. Before this, he lived, over 2100 years ago, as a ruthless military leader. He was Hannibal of Cartagena. He had no mercy to kill his own soldiers for disobey. And at the end of that life, he also committed suicide. When he returned home, he had no will to rebuild his life and ended-up in hell. Much earlier, 2100 years ago, he also lived as a ruthless military leader. But at that time, history was not written yet all over the world, so he remained unnoticed. In that life, he was also a mass-murderer.

"You really don't want to change your life?" asks the angel.

"No!"

"Then, you know what will happen. I have to send you to hell. You've been there before, Hister. You know the place".

The angel takes him to another place. Could be thousands of km or only a few steps, at home distances are not measurable. A huge door opens to another universe, which brings fear to any soul. Inside, everyone can hear horrible screaming, which comes from the heart of those in there.

"This is your last chance", says the angel. "You will come out of here only when the world will need you again".

Without saying anything, he walks through the opened door and vanishes in darkness, screaming worse then the others. He tries to kill himself, but it is impossible.

The door instantly closes after him. Soon, it's silence.

What is behind that door?

Julia and Sandra don't dare to look inside, but they realize the truth. All the pain comes from the heart, from the soul itself. It is the bad karma which hits you and makes you suffer worse and worse. The pain can take material forms, like a sea of fire or a sea of worms, but it all comes from your heart. For those in there, it should be enough only to regret the bad things they've done, to sincerely want to change, but they are too filled with hate and anger. They go there because they chose to. It is their freedom. It is their pride which closes their mind that keeps them locked in hell. Nothing else.

Down there, you see in your mind everyone which you made to suffer, which you hurt in any way. A heart full of anger will never accept that you are wrong. Instead, the anger grows even more. What can be done for those souls? Nothing.

And there is something else inside: demons. Fallen angels. Why? Because of their hate and anger. Angels lived before our universe came into existence, but some of them chosen hate instead of love. It is the hate that fuels the flames of hell, the hate in everyone's heart, living inside.

"Why was he released from hell, if he doesn't want to change?" asks Julia an angel.

"Because it had to be like this", answers the angel. "Demons and bad souls are released sometimes because their actions bring more good then bad".

"What?" says Sandra, shocked. "What good can bring this monster?"

"The first world war", continues the angel, "ended with the freedom of many states of Central Europe and Middle East. What Hister did, marks the end of colonial era. A whole continent was ruled by European powers. Soon, whole Africa and all European conquests over the world except those of Russians, will be free".

"And the Northern Caucasus?" asks Julia, thinking about her last life.

"Not yet, but will be, one day. If those who destroyed your life will understand the bad things they've done, it will all happen peacefully".

"And Hitler?" asks a soul.

"He will be released one day, to correct something bad that humans will be doing on Earth world at that time", answers the angel. "Then, he will return behind these doors by his own will".

Hitler was not the only soul from hell sent to Earth at that time.

Well, why so many people think they were reincarnations of Hitler? The answer is that there is an universal database, where all memories of the whole humanity are stored, like in a huge library. And just like in a library, people tend to read some books, while others are never opened. It is that database that we many times open and falsely believe we have memories from past lives.

2542, Himalia - Jupiter

Julia and Sandra wrote on their computer the memories they had about Hitler, which in the world of souls is called Hister.

"But haven?" asks Julia, finishing her cigarette. "We should write something about it too".

"Haven is also inside your heart", says Sandra. "You can feel part of it when you are at home. If you have no bad karma to pay, you can go there if you wish, but the desire to upgrade your soul will call you back here one day".

"I know", says Julia, remembering. "We can all see it when we are home. All the happiness comes from your heart and can take material shapes around you".

"We will go there one day", says Sandra, holding Julia in her hands. "There will come one day when we will no longer return here".

As they write about haven on their computer, they realize something else. The professor changed them from a girl and a guy into two hermaphrodites. A man could only see things related to men, while a woman, things related to women. In order to see it all, you have to be something between. Throughout time, they chosen to have various genders. Now, as hermaphrodites, they can see it all, clear, like nobody else could see.

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