"Kashmir"

This post is part of a series: Part I, “Kashmir,” Part II, “Iris,” Part III, “Tesselate,” and Part IV, “Lost Cause, “ Part V, “Undisclosed Desires,” and Part VI, “There’s Never Enough Time.”

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Pierre is sitting at the beach looking out over the ocean in a plastic lawn chair. For a beach it’s eerily empty for being such a beautiful day.

Pierre: This year has been especially a lot. Getting to come to this little haven is all I can do not to scream or to punch a wall. This is magic. This is science. It’s a mess though. What a mess.

Pause while Pierre admires the scene.

“Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face.” Let me escape the craziness, the improbability, that happened in my life. I need to find a way to get back to Planet Earth.

As a kid, I was told that the universe was limitless and we’d be able to do whatever we dreamed. I’ll be the first to admit that “stars fill my [dreams]” then and now and I always wanted to go further than our galaxy. I wanted to go somewhere else, so far no one would ever catch me.

Jokes on me. I was, no, I still am “a traveler of both time and space.” We’re at a point where our technology is endless. So what happened?  I got cocky. I went too far.

If you’ve seen what I have or “[been] where I have been” you would have tried too. I ended up inversing. No one thought it was actually possible, but somehow I have. Until other people figure out how I inversed, I’ll be here alone. I’m sure they think I’ve died. Hell, maybe I have.

Right before my last mission I had to “sit with elders of the gentle race” to talk about how far was too far. In space travel there are a lot of ethical and moral concerns. Those were never a problem for me. I was too adventurous. The exploration was what drove my missions. My cravings.

Pushing our machines and our physics to another level that “this world has seldom seen.” Congrats to humankind. We did it! We proved that inversing works and is survivable. I hope they can move more people over to this world. I’m so afraid that they don’t believe anyone will remain alive after the voyage. “They talk of days” that it will be possible, but “they sit and wait” so they can prove it’s safe.

I’m not a scientist. Somehow I’ll have to make contact on the other side. It won’t be until then that “all will be revealed” on the Original Planet Earth.

Time is on my side though. I’ll enjoy this place before getting to work.

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