A ZOMBIE Looks Inside

"Hello, Kevin"
"Whoa, hey...who said that?"
"Well...you did. You're basically talking to yourself rigth now"
"...have I finally gone insane?"
"Maybe...but that seems like a step in the right direction if you ask me."

A figure appeared out of the void. It seemed to be the ideal version of what the ZOMBIE could look like. The ZOMBIE had those same striking eyes that the bookseller did. So alive...so alert. They looked like they were studying everything around the figure at the same time.

"...at least going insane would be going somewhere.", the figure said.
"Who are you?"
"Again...I'm you. Not too quick with the uptake, are we?"
"OK, then where are we?"
"Well...we're inside your soul....do you like what you've done with the place?"

The darkness around them was absolute. There was nothing in this place.

"So", the ZOMBIE said, "what do we do now? Are you my spirit guide or some crap?"
"Spirit guide? Sure, I'm whatever you need me to be. I'm whatever you wish you could be. I'm the endpoint that you'll never reach."
"...endpoint that I'll never reach? Then what's the point of even starting?:
"Beats the hell out of me, but then again...what's the point of existing? What's the point of even being alive? If we're just taking up space until the end of our days, then what's the point of waking up every morning?"

The panic started to set in again...the ZOMBIE wasn't going to be able to just stare off into space and wait this one out like normal. He was in this thing now, and there didn't appear to be any going back. As he started to think about what the guide just said, the void started to lighten a little in one area.

"Hey!", the guide said, "Look at you with the thinking and the whatnot. Looks like you might not be too much of a lost cause after all. Are you ready to begin?"
"....I'm afraid."
"Afraid of what?"
"...everything."

At this the guide took that ZOMBIE's hand. The guide looked into the ZOMBIE's dead eyes...

"...brother...you ain't seen nothing yet."