1 Chapter 1: I'm reborn as what?!

Hi, my name is [Redacted] but you can call me Suzu. So, I was just about to go to my audition. Not a huge Role but I would have been allowed to sing and dance in front of a live crowd when this giant scaffolding above the street just collapsed on me! Avenge my death oh 14k Tinstagramm followers!

I always imagined the afterlife to be heaven-like, where we all just do whatever we want, but it is nothing like that. It's cramped and small and smells of eggs. And every day this place feels smaller! Did I end up in hell? What's this noise around me? It sounds like stuff cracking. Did hell not pay its rent and now everyone gets evicted? OK me, start moving, no way I'll die not fighting for my afterlife, maybe I can get a better eternal punishment, one where I can see and move. It's a real hassle, but I break the wall with my beak. After a bit, my claws are out and I even have room for my tail. Wait a minute…. Beak, claws, tail?! The light outside my hell is dim and I can smell a fire burning. I open my eyes fully and then it dawns on me. I'm a lizard. I have scales, I think they are red but that could be the yolk. I'm small and kind of chubby and I have about six siblings.

New mum? New Dad? We're born. I scream and whistle together with my siblings. Seems our voices still need to develop. No one is coming. We scream again. Still nothing. After a while, the first sibling starts crawling deeper into the cave. We all follow. Walking on all fours is a drag. Why do we have thumbs if our bodies are too pudgy to balance on our hind legs? What a stupid body. I want to re-roll my character, please. 

In a line, we crawl through the cave. Torches seem to lead us deeper in and we start to hear voices. The same chittering whistles we did but also something I think are words. We get faster and faster and then freeze. There are bigger versions of us, definitely on their hind legs, fighting with scary green guys who are smelly and have knives! They are really going at each other and it doesn't seem like any of them is close to winning. I run back into the darkness and hide but my stupid siblings are still advancing! Don't you have any survival skills? They trot right into the warzone just to end up as Green Guy kibble.

I crawl deeper into a fissure between two rocks and wait until the fighting dies down. I'm not an idiot. Ain't no way I'll die hours after being born. Once it's silent I slowly go back into the den. There are some adults cleaning away the dead green guys collecting whatever food or weapons they have on them. Others are packing up tents and getting ready to move shop. What's left of my siblings is put into makeshift cribs and given fruit scraps to feed on. Some adult sees me and adds me to the collection of infants.

I finally get a good look at the adult form of me. They are short and slender-ish with red scales and long tails they sometimes use like hands to hold stuff. Most of them are a bit taller, probably men while others have stubbier bodies and primarily care for the children. I guess those are females. I wonder what I am. I can't see me having a, you know, but I do remember lizards of our world don't have primary sex organs anyway. We'll see if I grow up.

For now, I'll just act like a baby and try to learn the language. Since my brain is all new that should be easy-peasy. I just hope those green guys don't return. Fat chance they're just a once-in-a-lifetime occasion, eh?