Paarsbloem Part 1 A choice
What the were, am I?
I remember something involving the hairy heads.
Now I remember somehow one of those Snowstalkers got on board the ship.
From there it’s a bit fuzzy there is something about overriding systems and a blight flash of
light wheezing by my eyes.
Actually, about that, I can’t see anything wherever I am is entirely black say for that faint glow of orange in the corner.
“Hello there”
“H-Hello!” who’s speaking to me it sounds like it’s coming from every direction.
“You know me don’t you?” That orange shapes is forming into something it looks like oh what are they called again?
An ammonite that’s the one Emily showed me the shell of one in a collection of extinct Cephalopods.
But I could hold that shell in my hand this one is so big that all I can see of it is its eye.
“Get back who-what are you!”
“I am you” the stranger replays.
“What!”
“Well, I’m not just you. I’m every Squibbion every Tera Squid every Cephalopod that has ever been or will be”
The glowing lights of orange and red transform in front of me dancing into forums of different animals some I know others I've never seen before. As quickly as they came they turn back into specks of light that make up its body.
“You probably wonder why you’re here. You are currently being sent through time and space and you have two choices”
“You can return through to your time but I can’t guarantee you will ever see those you care about again. You will be sent to a time beyond one you’ve ever seen I can still not guarantee you will see those you care about again but this is the time they will be sent to”
“Take as much time as you’d like my other half is with the other as we speak”
“Paarsbloem? You can hear me right Paarsbloem?”
“Yes, I can hear you who are you” The Squibbion replied trying to adjust to the lack of her other eye. Not that it really matters right now the only thing she could see was the glow of blue and purple lights.
“Who are you get back!”
“I don’t mean to harm you” The dancing lights began to take an obvious from miscellaneous specks turned into the recognizable shape of a fish.
“As for what I am. I am the ray-finned fish I am the essence of all that have ever existed including the ones that touch the heavens above you” One of the purple lights appeared in front of her morphing from a small fish into what looked like a hummingbird Blish.
“If you wish to return to your time you may or, you can go to another time far beyond yours. You will die soon in both times I can’t know how but it is inevitable that you will join the essence of my other half”
I million different thoughts were swimming around in Paarsbloem’s mind but the figure continued to speak.
“You may also see your Ichthtyopteran companion in both times I can’t guarantee when but you will”
That made the choice obvious to her. She wasn't going back to the frozen machine-overrun world she came from. If she got a chance to see Friend again even if it wouldn’t be him but some far-flung descendant to see a world free of ruin from intelligent beings' creation she would take it.
