Ayuzilises

Praveen Prabhakar
Jul 23, 2017 · 6 min read

Year: Uncertain

Location: Some point in the universe

The stars had widened their reach. Unperturbed, Ed focussed on a distant extremity for long. Through the dark infinity, he floated in peace. Concealed in his nerves was the greatest enlightening mystery. He would reach earth anytime now, with an impulse to unravel the unknown experiential divine truth and rewrite the human history since its evolution. What lies ahead would never be the same.

Year: 2101

Location: Earth, Atmospheric version 10.2

Ed was engrossed in his rooted thoughts of agony. Thoughts that dwelled on endless mutual conversations with self. He was once an acclaimed neurosurgeon known for his utmost perfection. His flawless service towards humanity was now a mere chip of a sophisticated robot. After losing his job, he wanted huge investments to survive the future. It was then, Su, Ed’s girlfriend, decided to be a test subject for a laboratory experiment. The experiment progressed with desired results, but without any factual explanations, Su went in to coma, and after three months of misery, she left Ed, leaving quite a lot of compensation for him. He was heartbroken, guilt of her death pierced his chest, pounding every moment of his with overpowering emotional pain. Questioning his futile existence, he felt disgusted to breathe, even to exist meant nothing without her.

Ed went in to severe depression. Committing to death seemed an easier option with corporates offering the best suicide experience. But Su’s dream of a space trip together, crossed his mind with varied levels of intensity, the attraction was a plan that in its eventuality gave him some relief. Post a prolonged self-inflicted mental torture and isolation, Ed bought a travel package to the outer space.

It was that time of the year when people freaked out on rising temperatures. Everyone had their own share of eco-friendly Aquaozy chambers, meant to cool their surroundings, and the rest would leave earth for space trips. Ed was part of Hexa-Cruiser (HC -119), an automated elite spaceship that carried only six passengers. HC-119 blasted off from earth after ten days of covering rudimentary standard operating procedures for its crew. With ultra-modern life support system, impeccable power and communication systems, HC-119 was the most reliable space vehicle of its time completing fifty-six successful space voyages. Going past the escape velocity of where he lived all his life, Ed ignored his deep emotional pull and admired his ocean blue spacesuit. The glossy blue hid the inbuilt sophistication to record every manoeuvre or any contacts with the extra-terrestrial.

Day twenty of the voyage, the spacecraft neared a spinning star that orbited around a mysteriously dense object, the elite six could now venture out in their customized pods to capture the astronomical phenomenon from a safe distance. With his ejection, all Ed could think was Su’s dream and finding a floating grave for himself. Though HC-119 can pull back controls anytime, the pod could be an independent vehicle, in case of emergencies. Only restriction was using the Surge controls. Inevitably, he disabled the communication lines and accelerated towards his recently discovered destiny. The denser entity greeted him with humongous speeds, the pod-controls were dead and it zipped ahead in an intense web of pitch-dark hostility. A state to let go his small universe to the one mightier, no guilt, no pain, just the emptiness to liberate his soul in the unknown.

Awakened by enigmatic crimson ripples, Ed was floating in an imaginary dimension. In a crawler position, his palms were touching a viscous green fluid of a transparent tunnel. His straight sight far stretched to a glaring light that submerged in to an infinite sidereal. What he saw underneath was a land with innumerable intriguing symmetrical craters, alive with spurting and elusive helical liquid spiralling downwards with sporadic sparks. He couldn’t stand upright, it was as if he had forgotten or his body did not comprehend to such stimuli. He crawled ahead and when he aligned himself above a crater, it would glow as if to accentuate a heavenly presence. The lights in the crater guided his vision all the way down to the core. It looked like a giant nervous system with a blazing spherical heart at the core. Ed was numb after passing about ten craters, he couldn’t move further. He realized he wasn’t breathing. Probably he was dead or this place was not designed for respiration. He examined the illuminated crater right beneath, Ed could now see a triangle with his palm resting exactly on either corners. Ed knew the triangle connected to number three representing true wisdom. Totally unaware of his next few seconds, he placed his forehead at the lone point to symbolize faith in the triangular wholeness. The sublime triangle now revolved in a lightning speed as if to churn divine powers from the turbulent core. Ed could now hear a familiar voice.

“I am Neophecia, an Ayu in the land of Ayuzilises.”

“Su, it’s you.”

“No. I picked the voice of your favourite emotion.”

“Why am I here and how do you know Su?”

“Ed, I visualized this frame of time. I wanted to break the preconceived notion down here of an imminent destruction if Ayus met their thoughts. Ed, you are my first thought, I couldn’t let you go without seeing you for real.”

“What thought?”

“Every human life is a unique thought of an Ayu. We survive on thoughts to attain eternity. Just like you breathe, we inhale a thought invisibly engineered with imaginations, desires, expectations, and other emotions until you are alive. And exhale time accordingly deciding your lifespan. Every time we change thoughts, the person ceases to exist. So all you do is exist and we engineer your life. Your love for Su is my interaction with another Ayu. I conceived your suicide and all other feelings that drove you here.”

“Neo, aren’t you my fate, so it was your idea to become a surgeon?”

“Yes. I am supposed to dwell on a thought for a few seconds, add colours to it, and then erase it forever.”

“So, you created us?”

“Your creator is unknown as ours.”

Ed was now able to feel his body, but still no breathing. He felt weak, he couldn’t believe the mesmerizing novelty of what he heard. He realized Ayu’s powered the human brains, what he fixed with precision all his life kept sanctity of the gateway to this portal.

“Neo, your revelation makes life meaningless.”

“Without us, yes.”

“Am I dead?”

“No. You are still my thought. You got to go back home, tell other thoughts what unravelled here. I will think you through the journey.”

“Neo, why me?”

“Because we are the chosen ones to connect two unknown civilizations.”

In an instant flash, Ed was breathing, he was in his pod with defunct controls, yet cruising ahead to a new life. He was unconscious to the time trail in Ayuzilises. What he experienced, time was immaterial, the urge was to tell his people about the unfathomable interaction with an Ayu. He repeatedly played the data fed in his suit’s devices. The audio-visual blend enticed his senses, opening a whole new horizon to viciously think and rethink. The perception to think with no limits, yet think confined to an unimaginable Ayu’s thought, one superlative design.

Meanwhile in Ayuzilises, Nephoecia was cut-off from the core, terminated at source for contacting its thought. The last thought of an Ayu is cursed with eternity. Alive and alone, never to reach any destination, to forever float in the vast empty space of the timeless infinity.

Praveen Prabhakar
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