I have this friend. He's a traveler, one very curious. He lives in a very different world from ours, one we can only peak into. But still, we're good friends and some things are universal enough. He's got a particular love for seducing. Haha, he once told me this story. What a smooth talker.
John, come on, tell me more. Tell me about this world you left me for.
Oh, honey, our world is amazing. It's enormous. More than millions of times the size of one of us. At best you can hope to travel across half of it once in your lifetime and dream about the rest.
I dreamt. Of it. Of you. While you were gone.
Some explorers ventured into the core. They saw very peculiar civilizations there, with natives and fauna of all colors and shapes. They speak different languages, some of them in sounds we can't even hear. They eat different. They breathe different. I myself saw these forests far in the north, there, to where most of our rivers flow to, huge stretches of dense vegetation spanning all the way to the exterior. And then I ventured to the frontiers of our planet and saw the vast emptiness that lies there. An endless void, spanning the measure of our lost imaginations. But where the light shines brightest than anywhere else.
Her eyes were turned towards him. He was surprised to meet this soft steady gaze. She wasn't chatting with her own emotions anymore. She was his.
As you know, the world's shape changes over time. Some of its regions move, because of the storms in the northern rainforest which propagate down and over time disturb the balance in our tectonic substrate, causing it to drift slowly.
Is it dangerous?
Not really, no. By now we can predict them more of less in advance. Plus... I'm here with you.
She had a slight twitch forward and hesitated with a smile.
The most amazing thing is that we now have good evidence that our world was once much smaller and that it expanded until it reached its present size. It was not much bigger than one of us. And that is where we come from. A long way of random events and millennia of complicated coincidences that brought you and me here, now.
You... I didn't know our planet was so rich within. A bit like ourselves... Do you think it can feel?
Her hand was now curled into hypnosis in his and nibbling on the tip of his fingers.
No, baby, only bacteria like us can experience the world. The rest is all mechanical. That's you and me, honey, in an intimate solitude, living our moment for a whole universe that can't.
John, come on, tell me more. Tell me about this world you left me for.
Oh, honey, our world is amazing. It's enormous. More than millions of times the size of one of us. At best you can hope to travel across half of it once in your lifetime and dream about the rest.
I dreamt. Of it. Of you. While you were gone.
Some explorers ventured into the core. They saw very peculiar civilizations there, with natives and fauna of all colors and shapes. They speak different languages, some of them in sounds we can't even hear. They eat different. They breathe different. I myself saw these forests far in the north, there, to where most of our rivers flow to, huge stretches of dense vegetation spanning all the way to the exterior. And then I ventured to the frontiers of our planet and saw the vast emptiness that lies there. An endless void, spanning the measure of our lost imaginations. But where the light shines brightest than anywhere else.
Her eyes were turned towards him. He was surprised to meet this soft steady gaze. She wasn't chatting with her own emotions anymore. She was his.
As you know, the world's shape changes over time. Some of its regions move, because of the storms in the northern rainforest which propagate down and over time disturb the balance in our tectonic substrate, causing it to drift slowly.
Is it dangerous?
Not really, no. By now we can predict them more of less in advance. Plus... I'm here with you.
She had a slight twitch forward and hesitated with a smile.
The most amazing thing is that we now have good evidence that our world was once much smaller and that it expanded until it reached its present size. It was not much bigger than one of us. And that is where we come from. A long way of random events and millennia of complicated coincidences that brought you and me here, now.
You... I didn't know our planet was so rich within. A bit like ourselves... Do you think it can feel?
Her hand was now curled into hypnosis in his and nibbling on the tip of his fingers.
No, baby, only bacteria like us can experience the world. The rest is all mechanical. That's you and me, honey, in an intimate solitude, living our moment for a whole universe that can't.
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