Science fiction. The Queen

 

Science fiction. The Queen

“Late, very late indeed! 

Anyway when you go there, convey my best wishes to her. Tell her about the bridge and everything else you saw. But be careful that you do not present a berated description of whatever happened today, it should be in absolute harmony with the facts and situational desperation that led to it, and we were caught in it somehow. And with our involvement, the bridge was bound to get involved and meet the fate it met today.

The bridge of all realms and the bridge that existed since the creation of time. 

But there is still hope and we shall not let it forsake us as long as we are alive.

Tell her these exact words! 

Although it is most likely that she will be able to read your mind and there will be no need for you to say all this. In case, when you enter that realm and the Queen’s mind does not sense these realities, then you will have to explain to her the exact incident. ”

These were the words of my master, before I pledged myself to be the carrier of my master’s message to the Queen. The Queen of the bridges. Without the bridge the realms will not exist and without the Queen the bridges will not exist. And I am going there, where time does not exist and light rarely reaches. Because that is where the Queen lives.

Now you might be wondering why did the master choose me and not any of his other pupils? To that there is no straightforward answer, but there is an explanation that would give you an idea about what made him choose me for this mission.

You see, in our world, there are many star systems, and a new star system appears whenever a child is born. And they say when I was born 3 star systems appeared together, instead of just one. And based on the predictions made by our forefathers, when that happens, the person will be destined to interact with the Queen of the bridges, whom no mortal has met so far. And she will bless this person with endless bounties. 

And I happen to be this person. Now, whether or not I will succeed in meeting the Queen remains to be seen. But as far as the 3 star systems are concerned, well, that is true and they do exist. And I will have to travel through them and find my way into the realm where the Queen of the bridges lives.

According to our legend, she will be waiting for me and her senses will guide me through the lower realms that lead to her realm. And this part of the narrative scares me, because it is logically handicapped and I somehow do not want to give in to this rhetoric of my clan. But I have no choice, because once you have been accepted as an apprentice by the great master who possesses limitless knowledge about the Universe, his orders cannot be declined by pupils like me, because they cannot be rejected by any member of our clan either. 

And he has ordered me to meet the Queen and tell her everything about the bridge. Everyone has been excited about my prospect of meeting the Queen, but so far not even a single person has explained to me how I am supposed to meet her. They expect me to rely only on my senses that will be directed by her will. And it is beginning to worry me a lot.

It is like expecting a bat to hunt its prey during the day when the Sun is shining brightly. And with no predefined destination that I will be travelling towards, I have every reason to feel like this bat and imagine my fate. Where I already see myself meandering through the endless universe. Where the Queen of the bridges can be anywhere. And I am supposed to meet her somewhere.

I have tried to ruminate on it for many days now, and finally I have decided to be this bat who is expected to hunt its prey in the daylight. 

Today I will be spending my entire day with my master; and this will be my last session with him, where he will offer me a few words of wisdom, and I am hoping this wisdom will include telling me something about how and where to find the realm where the Queen of the bridges resides.

I spent the afternoon thinking about bats hunting their prey in the daylight. And around 03:00 pm I went to see my master. He had been waiting for me, and the moment I entered the room, he asked me to fetch him the scrolls that he had placed on the study table. I did as asked and sat opposite to him. 

“There you are! Open this scroll. And spread it on the table. 

Although everyone believes the Queen of the bridges will find you and then lead you into her realm through her senses, that will form a bond with your conscience as soon as you enter the star systems that are associated with your birth.

That is what others believe and I am supposed to believe as well.

However, being your teacher and your guide, it is my duty not to leave you completely at the mercy of a belief that has never been validated. 

Therefore, after your birth I had started working on a map that according to me should lead you into her realm. 

I believe once you cross the star systems associated with your birth, you will not encounter any heavenly body. There will be huge and almost endless stretches of dark space and emptiness. Then you will see a star twinkling at a distance. After crossing some distance you will witness 6 stars shining together. You will have to head in that direction and as soon as you see a long queue of stars, travel along this queue and where it ends, that shall mark the beginning of the realm where the Queen of the bridges lives.

And about that realm I have no knowledge at all. You will have to find her yourself and it is then perhaps your senses should guide you. I believe you are born to find her and once you are in that realm you would know where to go. Because she too would be seeking you in her realm with similar passion.

And always remember, only races have finish lines. The quest for knowledge is a race where there is no end point. It continues forever. Because the universe is infinite and the Queen of the bridges connects an infinite number of  infinities together. Seek her and she will seek you in return!

This shall be my last teaching and my last lesson for you.

I believe you are travelling on the day when all 3 star systems associated with your birth appear in the exact formation as they had appeared when you were born. 

You may leave now. I will always be with you wherever you are. Always!”

These words of my master touched my soul and I bowed before him in complete respect and veneration. And while my head was lowered, and my hands were folded, I asked him what had been bothering me for many weeks now,

“What if I never find her master and I am lost in those unknown realms? Merely depending on a myth and expecting her senses to guide me, seems to be a very unreliable and logically flawed navigational tool to travel through the vastness of realms and then expect to find the realm where she lives. This thought scares me!”

The master looked at me, asked me to rise and raise my head. I obeyed and he asked me to follow him into his laboratory. There he pointed at a life pod and said  something that I have never forgotten,

“ Do you see that? A glass pod with a frozen body of a girl!”

I looked at him and said, “Yes master I do see it and the frozen body as well!”

“That is my daughter. She too was born with special signs, but when she was born; only 2 super star systems had appeared in the sky. She too was assigned the same job. She too followed a map that was not as detailed as your map. 

Based on her last words, when she entered the realm of the Queen of the bridges, she felt as if the realm had ejected her and relaunched her into the realm where our planet is located.

She kept trying. Again, and again. But the realm kept ejecting her every time she attempted to enter it.

Finally, the Queen of the bridges did not appear before her, but spoke to her and asked her to leave, because she was not the one the bridges of all realms were seeking. According to the Queen it was the one who shall command the blessings of three most powerful star systems that exist in the universe. Only that person shall be entertained in this realm and to that person alone shall be revealed the secrets of the Universe.

Then she ordered her to leave and when her spaceship landed on the planet, she told us that she had only a few moments left before she would enter into a lifeless state. 

And to revive her back to life she will have to be touched by the person who is born with the blessings of the 3 star systems. And this person happens to be you. 

You will have to touch her face, and then she will come back to life and accompany you on this journey as your lifelong companion. And together you shall enter the realm of the Queen of the bridges. Then the Queen of the bridges shall bless you and her as well. And when you return, through you the people of our realm will know the deepest secrets of the universe.

She will be your guide to that realm, and in that realm you will be her guide. That is how it has been ordained and it ought to be so. Just in case something goes wrong this map will guide you. I have worked on it from the day you were born.

So will you touch my daughter’s face please? I long to see her. It has been so many years that I have only seen her in this freezer. Lifeless, yet bearing the hope that the person who possesses the power to revive her will someday come and touch her face.

But you will have to do it willingly!”

The master said these words and then he looked at his daughter with deep feelings that I suppose only a father can feel and understand too.

Then he turned around and waited to hear my answer.

“I will do so master.”

This was my honest response, and he immediately opened the lid of the life pod. I walked with feeble steps towards his daughter, and with trembling fingers I touched her face. Her facial muscles moved a bit and after 1 hour, she had regained her sense of existence. 

As she rose from the life pod, she looked at me and said, “ I am ready to leave whenever you are ready!”

I did not say anything, but just to cheer her up and welcome her back to life I managed to form one simple sentence, “I am glad you are!”

Finally, I let my master and his daughter refresh their memories and talk about things that her father must have been heaving in his heart for so many years, and so desperate to share them with her. 

That night, I looked at the sky to locate the 3 star systems that they say had appeared when I was born. I had always believed that when someone on our planet is born, a star somewhere in the universe is born too. But I did not know, until recently. That when someone is born, 3 star systems are born too. This baffled me and I spent the entire night locating these 3 star systems from my window.

It must have been 4:00 am, when my sleepy eyes opened, and I saw these 3 star systems getting closer, I could see many stars shining brightly and they appeared larger in size, and before I could understand what it meant, the dawn dispelled every night star with the early morning light of the Sun.

I must have just stepped out of my bed, when I heard my master calling for me. He was standing at the main door that I had locked from inside. I opened the door, greeted him; and without answering the greeting, he hurriedly quoth these words,

“It is time to leave. The 3 star systems appeared in the sky this morning between 02:00 am to 04:00 am.”

I was still thinking about an answer, when I heard his daughter’s voice, “I am ready. I will wait for you here and we can leave together.”

I only nodded my head. And they both waited in my room.

I checked all my rooms, looked at the windows, the walls, the furniture, offered my prayers, whatever I could think of praying at this moment, and I presented myself before both of them.

“Oh! So you are ready. Very good!”

This was my happy master’s response.

His daughter went towards the spaceship, and everyone from our town had come to wish us a safe voyage, and perhaps see us for the last time, just in case we got lost in the infinity of the realms of the universe. Through this cheerful rumpus I made my way to the gate of the spaceship and my rumbustious master and everyone present there wished us a safe voyage.

Everyone appeared happy and very hopeful. There was nothing vindictive about the genuine smiles and joyful wavings of hands that I interpreted as placards that bore this message, “meet the Queen of the bridges and gather all knowledge; and make this planet a panacea for our species!”

I did not smile. Because this thought was still caught in the loops of my mind somewhere. She waved at the crowds of people who were happy to see her alive and willing to take the journey that had killed her once. Nearly killed her!

She was lucky not that I was born, because my mother had found my father, or should I say; my father had found my mother. Whatever the case might have been, without them I could not have been born, and then, probably nothing could have revived her. Because according to my master, in the universe everything is interlinked somehow.

And it is also true that without her, I could never have travelled into the realm of the Queen of the bridges. So she owes me nothing, but I feel I owe her a lot. Because through her, I will find the realm where all answers to the universe lie. 

What she feels about me, I shall let her decide that.

Whatever she was experiencing or whatever her feelings might have been, she suddenly asked me to take control of the spaceship and fly towards the 3 star systems that were born at the time of my birth. At least that is what everyone believes.

We flew across the 3 star systems and after 5.5 years we reached the realm of the Queen of the bridges. And when we reached there, she asked me to leave the spaceship in stationary mode and wait for the Queen to direct the ship with her senses.

First I smiled, because I felt it was impossible that something like this could happen. She sensed my sarcastic smile; and I felt I was acting a bit too cocky and that too unnecessarily. Because there was no harm in waiting and experiencing something that she had felt when she had entered the realm of the Queen of the bridges.

I must have waited for almost 6 minutes and suddenly, I felt the spaceship experienced a drag, and it got pulled into the deepest edge of this realm. There I experienced a few moments of complete blankness, and I was covered in a brilliant light and endless beauty that could not be explained in words. Then in my hand I found almost 36, strangely bubbling particles. I dropped them, they fell, but one of them still stayed in my palm, and after a few seconds it attracted the rest of the particles and my palm was filled with them again.

The girl looked at me, and asked me to touch her head with the hand where I was holding these particles. The moment I touched her head, her hair shone like diamond strings and when I withdrew my hand, she said in a very low voice, “So, it indeed was you. These particles hold the secret of the entire universe. Now if you use the knowledge your master has enriched your mind with, and understand the behaviour of these particles. You will unlock the most complex riddle of the universe.”

I was motionless, speechless, thoughtless, I felt everything in this moment was about to cause a rapture of joy, but it was somewhere lost in its struggle between the real and unreal. And when these two perceptions dilute, feeling any emotion becomes impossible, because at this moment you are pervaded by a feeling of mechanical existence. Where the unreal appears to be real, but somewhere, something within you tells you that the real is something else, something natively tied to your existence. But somehow it has turned blurry. Somehow!

And when I looked at these particles, I felt I could control the universe, and while I was dealing with infinite volume of power, the Queen was silently, in her invisible form conditioning my mind to accept this power as a native entity of my existence so that I could use it better, and for the good of others.

When she felt my mind had accepted these particles as a part of my own existence. I finally managed to smile, and then I laughed! And in the spaceship my master’s daughter laughed along with me. Because we knew, we had acquired what nobody could even imagine about. We possessed the knowledge of the universe and we had the particles from the Queen’s realm to guide us. 

We had brought along a few flowers from our planet, that we had freeze dried. We both took them in our hands and cast them into the Queen’s realm.

They appeared to look fresher, newer, and much brighter.

“Now They will never die. They shall remain here in the Queen’s realm and she has accepted them with love and warmth. Otherwise they would not have looked so fresh. Now let us return to our planet and examine these particles.”

She spoke with a lot of certainty like always.

We flew back to our planet where we were greeted with celebrations that lasted for a week. Then we began examining the particles.

Today I am an old man, my master’s daughter has aged well too, and these particles are still revealing new secrets to us. With their help we have managed to become an interstellar species. 

And according to the old scriptures, for our species to become masters of the entire universe, we will have to wait for the birth of someone whose birth will be marked by the appearance of 6 super star systems in the sky. And this is something that happens only once in a billion years. So we are waiting, but we have not given up on seeking and pursuing knowledge. My master’s daughter and I visit the Queen’s realm every year and we cast flowers there.

To know what secrets these particles revealed, please refer to the science fiction novel, They Loved in 2075. And to know if love would exist in 2075, and if humans will be able to express human like feelings, They Loved in 2075, is the novel that reveals a lot about 2075.

While you are exploring the scifi novel, They Loved in 2075. My master’s daughter and I will visit the grave of my master, her father. Because offering flowers to the dead makes the dead happy too. Because from the particles we obtained from the Queen’s realm we learned one thing. That we all die physically, but the energy of our thoughts gets created as an everlasting print in the realms we live in, and these thoughts never die. Never!

They exist in the universe and somehow they get associated with something as packets of energies. With what? That is the secret my master’s daughter and I are still researching and trying to understand fully. But I know there is something magical about these secret particles, and they hold every secret to the universe. To know if we ever find this secret, keep reading the future blog posts and the sci fi novel, They Loved in 2075. Which will have a 2nd part too.

Maybe it will bear details corresponding to the ultimate secret of the universe!