Chapter 54 End of First Experiment
THE END IS NOT
NEAR
IT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED
WE JUST DIDN'T CARE – David Wong
IT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED
WE JUST DIDN'T CARE – David Wong
Or you may
be such a thunderingly exalted creature as to be altogether deaf and blind to
anything but heavenly sights and sounds. Then the earth for you is only a
standing place- whether to be like this is your loss or your gain I won't
pretend to say – Joseph Conrad
First
the Ain. Then Ain Soph. Then Ain Soph Aur. And she was back in the Egg again. She felt the comfort of the reclined seat
beneath her, the close confines and screens around her, though blurred she knew
exactly where she was. She felt the IV
in her hand and the sensors tug on her suit as she shifted slightly. She remembered Chandler’s advice and
concentrated on seeing more clearly.
Almost at once the burry screen in front of her became clear. They showed and image an image of Barry and
Jackie looking intently at the Egg. Then
Stan came within view and walked over to the intercom.
“Welcome
back. Are you alright, Marie?”
She
focused on speaking. “I-I-I-m-m
o-ok-kay, I th-think.”
She
watched joyous smiles spread over their faces.
“Open
the Egg up, Stan” she heard Barry say.
And
the Egg opened slowly at his command as Stan pressed the control to do so. Barry was standing there looking worried and
happy all at the same time.
“You
sure you’re okay?”
“P-pretty
sure, yeah. Wow. That was more intense than the DMT.”
“Get
her out of there,” Barry ordered, surprising himself it seemed by his own
demands.
Doctor
Who hurried over began disconnecting the IV as Jackie worked to unhook the suit
sensors from the Egg. Once Finished
Barry reached over and offered a hand to Marie.
“Best
to give me another minute on muscular movements, Bar, that seems to come back
last.”
He
stepped back. Stan appeared nest to
him. “Well?”
“Well?”
Marie repeated, mockingly.
“Some
of us are curious as to what you may have experienced, this being our first
attempt at this sort of thing,” Stan responded.
“Are
you sure, you’re feeling okay?” asked both Doctor Who and Jackie in unison.
“Yeah,
I’m fine, or I will be as soon as my muscle control returns, which I feel it
doing now”
She
sat up, and looked around the Egg room.
It looked exactly the same as it did when she left, which felt like ages
ago.
“How
long was I gone for?” she directed her question at Stan.
“The
Egg was gone for…” he turned and checked the chronometer, “eighteen minutes,
twenty-one seconds.”
“Yeah,
that’s about what if felt for me too,” Marie said. “I went to Earth II as the locals call it.”
“So,
you met Chandler then?” Stan excitedly queried.
“I
did, I was in this exact location, but in a different reality version of
it. There was no village, no chateau,
just a grassy overlook on the mountain.
Chandler was there waiting for me, or he came over from his camp right
away, whichever, I didn’t ask.”
“Excellent!”
Stan squealed with glee. “Barry, get
this girl some breakfast, ASAP! Luke,
check the internal readings on the Egg!”
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