‘The Bedana and the wanderer’ is a poetic phantasy of metempsychosis and a healing transtemporal and transcultural fiction where acute mourning for the most loved person and the impossibility of continuing to live without this person turns the protagonist into a vagabond healer and fortune teller, and their departed mother – into a tame quail liberated from her cage. This unlikely trans-species and genderly non-binary duo then starts their wanderings replaying scenarios that were erroneously abandoned in their previous real life. The grief moment becomes a moment of epiphany rewinding existence back to the moment of the forking paths and allowing to edit the wrong choices in an other worldly parallel reality. The protagonist strives to cope with the enormity of death and to grasp its contradictory qualities, its entangled void and emptiness and freedom from any attachments, any sense of home or rootedness, which leads them to empowerment and fearlessness. The main character’s accidental death can be seen as a form of a weak suicide, transferring them to the next reincarnation and reunification with the loved one.