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    Rebirth

    By Mariela Saravia

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    After the tragedy of the Titanic, Ben Laevery travels through time and appears in the middle of a city he does not know. He loses consciousness again.

    When he opens his eyes he becomes aware of a woman who is tending the wound on his head. He has never seen him before, but she reminds him very strongly of someone he has known in the past. He feels an increasing attraction towards her—Maggie—and his feelings are reciprocated.

    Ben is overwhelmed with questions, but he can remember nothing about his past. What has brought him here? Is it possible to live another life in a parallel universe? But, above all,will he be able to remain by Maggie’s side, or will he be reabsorbed by that strange force some day, and returned to the time and place he came from?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBadPress
    Release dateDec 4, 2016
    ISBN9781507157039
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      Rebirth - Mariela Saravia

      REBIRTH

      (Ben & Maggie, Book 2)

      by

      Mariela Saravia

      ––––––––

      Translated

      by

      Ana Carrington & Enriqueta Carrington

      All rights reserved Copyright© 2015 Mariela Saravia. This original work was created and edited by Mariela Saravia and is protected by all copyright laws, according to the lineaments of the World Intellectual Property Organization.

      Registration code: 1512156032549

      ––––––––

      Translation into English: Copyright© Ana Carrington & Enriqueta Carrington, 2016

      What is my present? I am

      a nebula of moments.

      My life consists of lights

      in continuous heartbeat. Such is time:

      an inner sky where I keep

      celestial bodies from a complete world.

      —Manuel Altoaguirre

      Synopsis

      After the tragedy of the Titanic, Ben Laevery travels through time and appears in the middle of a city  he does not know. He loses consciousness again.

      When he opens his eyes he becomes aware of a woman who is tending the wound on his head. He has never seen him before, but she reminds him very strongly of someone he has known in the past. He feels an increasing attraction towards her—Maggie—and his feelings are reciprocated.

      Ben is overwhelmed with questions, but he can remember nothing about his past. What has brought him here? Is it possible to live another life in a parallel universe? But, above all,will he be able to remain by Maggie’s side, or will he be reabsorbed by that strange force some day, and returned to the time and place he came from?

      Table of Contents

      Synopsis

      Chapter 1: BEN

      Chapter 2: MAGGIE

      Chapter 3: BEN

      Chapter 4: MAGGIE

      Chapter 5: BEN

      Chapter 6: BEN

      Chapter 7: MAGGIE

      Chapter 8: BEN

      Chapter 9: MAGGIE

      Chapter 10: SAMANTHA

      Chapter 11: MAGGIE

      Chapter 12: BEN

      Chapter 13: CRISP

      Chapter 14: MAGGIE

      Chapter 15: SAMANTHA

      Chapter 16: BEN

      Chapter 17: SAMANTHA

      Chapter 18: MAGGIE

      Chapter 19: SAMANTHA

      Chapter 20: BEN

      About the author

      Other Books in English by Mariela Saravia

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      CHAPTER 1:  BEN

      I could remember very little that night, there was nothing but a series of names and vague images humming around in my head like pesky mosquitoes. Despite my struggles, I could grasp nothing concrete. I placed my hand on my lips and found them cold, gasping out small puffs of frigid air, as if I were dead. Curious, hey? How could I recognize the sensation of being dead, when I had never been dead before? It was strange, but I could feel I was a piece of the ensemble of my body, and yet I had no difficulty in moving. My sensation was that of absolute freedom––not even in the act of love had I ever felt so weightless. How strange! I tried not to attach too much importance to this thing, considering that not two hours earlier, the supposedly unsinkable steamship had suffered an appalling accident. My nerves were still overloaded and my emotions close to the surface, anything could exacerbate them. So I did nothing but walk, following the road that stretched out before me, leading perhaps to some understanding of where I was. I expected to see a vast ocean surrounding me, and myself like an island within it, but instead...

      I found myself enclosed in a large space, where no attractive object could be seen. It was like a cavern in Hades, covered with moss and soot, as if a train passed by at a certain hour of every day, along an invisible railroad. I shook my head several times, surely I must be confused by the blow, I probably had a concussion.

      I took my watch out of my pocket to see what time it was, but the glass was shattered and the handles told of a static time. They said it was two o'clock. That would be two a..m.––but hadn't that time passed long ago? Once again, I struggled to remember what had happened, but I was unable to recall it all. Something had broken inside my brain, as if the cord that tied me to the real world had snapped. I panicked, imagining something impossible. My heart was beating at a tremendous pace, but I could not hear its drumming.

      I turned on my heel, searching for a clue, any indication, even the slightest one, and found nothing but a ghastly light tinting the inexorable fog that hung around the cavern.

      A pair of shadows moved ahead, like soldiers in full wartime, holding up their gas lamps. I could not tell whether they were approaching or receding. I half closed my eyes, and then I saw it.

      A series of figures materialized, little by little, and began to take the form of human beings. Curious and cautious, I moved in their direction, and I bumped into a glass wall. Then I could see the worst...

      I realized the sad truth. I was indeed dead, or something like it. I couldn't recall the name of the lady I had clung to in a desperate embrace. Her delicate, elegant features, her regal dress, her unbound hair, were obscured by the lapel of my blood-drenched suit. We were both dead, and I saw a group of sailors making urgent signs to another one, in the distance, as if they wanted to call him back. One of the sailors tried to separate me from the beautiful woman, but he was unable to do so. Some force, like a strong magnetism, held us together. Instead, they lifted up a little girl from beside us; she had a slight body and long tangled hair. The officer with the curly red hair exchanged a look with the paunchy officer. They shook their heads and desisted in their attempts to separate me from the lovely woman. They moved away, carrying the child in their arms, and placed her in one of the lifeboats. I extended my hand, trying to call them, to ask them to return "...I'm alive...I've seen it all...come back, but it was too late.

      With a frantic effort, I dashed ahead, trying to run after them. And I desperately struck the glass with my open hands and then my closed fists. Seeing the glass would not break and my hands could feel no pain, I increased the force of my blows and my howls of despair. I feared that the little girl could be my daughter Arianne. I dropped to the ground, weeping and panting, wiping the dampness from my face, and once again I saw the lifeboat where they had placed the child. I calmed down when I caught a glimpse of her dirty face, contorted with weeping and fear. Then I knew she was much smaller, and not as pretty as my darling daughter; as a matter of fact, this child was quite ugly. I turned my back, wanting to ignore that shameful thought, and I saw I was absolutely alone.

      I shook my head in confusion, and pressed my face against the wall again. I saw other figures in the distance, and they seemed to float, deprived of all movement, on a rough sea, while others clutched their own bodies, adrift in boats. It looked like a shipwreck in ice-cold waters, the sky was dark, overcast by a whitish veil, the flickering lights came from gas lanterns. I wanted to see more, to find answers to the questions that were eating up my insides like a colony of termites. I searched my brain urgently, riffling through the memories of a lifetime, and I found nothing but scraps. Again I began to strike the wall before my eyes, in a desperate refusal to accept my own death, and then, despite my efforts, something behind my back began to suck me in with great force. It was a cold squall that enveloped me, and as it did so it began to turn into a fine silky tissue, wrapping around me, swaddling me like a cocoon. A loud sound, like a kind of trumpet, or rather like the whistle of a ship, was what scared me sufficiently to make my fingers lose their grasp on the wall and my body surrender to that powerful force.

      Within a few seconds, I found myself spinning around in the cavern, in a totally aimless fashion. I felt dizzy, deathly ill, trapped within an uncertain fate I had neither requested nor accepted.

      A sharp whack on my head made my eyes spring open. My clothes were reduced to filthy, sticky fragments of rags, my hands were darkened by a crust of blood and dried grease. I tried to rise from the ground, pressing my hand to my head, stunned by the blow.

      Something was slinking around under my brow, sneaking around to the back of my head, snaking along my skin. I screamed in terror and dragged myself around on my buttocks. I lowered my hands to the ground and found a road, paved with wet stones. Strange, the way the scent of the air had changed into something entirely different. A smell of modernity.

      The streets were free of the warm horse-dung that so ubiquitous in London. Even the sky had changed, and was now grayish, speckled with white. It looked like a mantle of fog which refused to descend from the firmament, lazy mist clinging to the steely sky.

      I shook my head several times, trying to understand what had happened in the cavern, and what was happening now. Where was I?

      My heart beat like a bolting horse and my head throbbed as if jolted by electricity. I could hear my heartbeat, as I did when I was in love. Warmth ran through my veins, until the heat reached my skin.

      All of a sudden my whole body went into convulsions, I felt scratches of cold and lashes of burning heat. As if I were turning into something I could not understand. Until something broke, and I fell in a swoon onto that rough dark ground, like a sackful of rubble

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