Passing comet (Patreon)

Slowly adjusting her pink nightgown, Maria looked at herself in the large mirror in the living room. It was still difficult for her to fully believe that her life would never be the same again.

Of course, everyone noticed that after the day this comet flew very, very close to the Earth, Mary's behavior changed. Her husband and friends attributed this to her pregnancy and worries, but of course everyone thought that the comet also affected. There is no scientific explanation for this, at least officially accepted, but history is known for the case that in some way such things could really affect the minds of people.

For example, they say that after the fall of the Tunguska meteorite, a man was discovered who told everyone that he had killed his wife. However, in reality, she was still alive. This is one of the most famous cases of strange behavior that has actually been recorded. Therefore, it was logical that perhaps this also somehow influenced Maria.

That evening, when everyone was watching a bright comet in the sky, Maria was with her husband at their friends' dinner party. At some point, she decided to go out to breathe in the fresh air alone and did not return for a long time. Friends had already begun to worry about this, but soon found her lying unconscious in the yard of the house.

It was strange to hear her story after she woke up a few minutes later in the house where her friends and husband had brought her. She claimed that she was actually Benjamin Stone - a businessman and part-time new boyfriend of her friend, who were also at this party. In fact, she told things that only Benjamin could really know, although she saw him for the first time in her life, just like all their other friends.

Benjamin himself was in a slight stupor from the behavior of this strange woman. He had never seen this woman before in his life and had no idea why she was trying to behave like him.

According to her stories, while the comet flew by, she was Benjamin, also at a dinner party and also among all the same people. She is a statement about some endless realities that appeared at this time in this particular house.

From her words, it turned out that she, i.e. Benjamin was in this house in another parallel reality of events with the same people, when the electricity went out in the whole block. He and a few other people went out to check it, and while they wandered around, they realized that there was nothing around except their house. However, when they returned, they soon realized that the people who remained in the house behaved differently. For the rest of the people, it was a different reality and Benjamin fell into a different reality of events.

All this was so confusing and strangely explainable, but the point was that he decided to return to his reality alone, and at some point in his search from endless realities, he simply simply lost consciousness and woke up already in the body of Mary, somehow replacing her here.