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09 de gener, 2006

One-eyed man in the country of the blind(Short tale)

There was no date. There was no location. There was no need of them.
Long ago the creatures that now populated the earth understood there was no reason to keep such information. The “when” and the “where” were meaningless.

They were humans once, millenniums ago, when they were 100% material. That percentage had been decreasing regularly to reach the optimum rate. Now they were just a mere 5% physical. Enough to still allow them to move in the unlikely chance it was need so.

The nameless white half-transparent creature fluttered on the floor in the direction he had to go. It did not know where it was going or why, but the creature never questioned the things it was told to do. Mainly because it could not see the difference between what it was told to do and what it wanted to do. It was all the same. A mental connection linked its mind with the entity one. They thought as one and act as one.

It arrived at a big room of hexagonal shape and about 11 meters of diameter. In the middle of the room was an isolated recipient. It was transparent and had a size of 3x3x3 meters.
There where other creatures like it in the room, just arriving at the same time. Three of them. Four specimens summing up on a single room was the biggest event even happened in the last 4000 years, but there was a good reason for.
There has been predicted the arrival of a transport from somewhere in the 21 century. Exactly in 14 seconds.

Lot of calculations about the possible effect of that uninvited visitor had been done. If the intruder was allowed, the probability of that new human race to disappear was, approximately, 89.837352%.
With a 9.162647% probability, the actual civilization would go back and lose the progress of the last 1500 years. And there were 1% of unknown possible effects caused by the imperfect knowledge of the traveller identity.

The explanation to such disastrous effects was the impurity of the 21 century human being. It was known the monstrous abilities and unlimited perversions of human minds from that age.
On the other hand the minds of the evolved creatures that now populated the earth were unable to understand words such as kill, hate or lie. And the introduction of such concepts in that society would very likely destroy it.
The only possible conclusion for those numbers was the need to destruct that traveller, to avoid the huge chances of disaster.

The ruling entity could not execute the proper action of suppressing the traveller as soon as it arrived. It was metaphysical, had no physical part, as it was formed by the deceased members of their society. But as it wanted it to be done, the four “living” members that had just arrived to the room also wanted so.

The four of them got together around the only button of the room, on one of the walls. None of them moved as the seconds went by, until the last one passed.
Once done, a black point appeared into the recipient and expanded to reach, almost, the limits of it. The obscurity vanished on itself and, slowly, a square figure appeared in the middle until it was the only thing left.
Exactly on the nanosecond that the transport was complete the entity wished to push the button, and so wished the four creatures. But, as the wishes and thoughts of them were the same, the knowledge of the effects of such wishes also were. And the creatures were not able to understand what they wanted to do; they did not understand they wanted to finish a living form.
Nanoseconds went by as the entity put pressure on four members to push the button. It had been expected some reticence to do the final action, that was the reason for four of them to be there. The entity wished stronger to push it as the time ran. So much resistance was not expected.
When almost a second had passed and the entity decided to focus its thoughts on the one more likely to act. A huge wave of willpower went through the sensitive creature mind. And it could resist no more. The button was pushed. The cage disappeared without a single sound and nothing was left in the middle of the room.

Three of the members moved, going back to the placed they belonged to. But one remained. The one that had pushed the button did not move. It was assuming the knowledge it had just acquired.

The creature was shocked. At the exact moment it pushed the button it realized of the effect of it. It knew it was killing. It felt the power of holding others destiny. And, while experiencing the slavery of being obligated to act against its will it also felt freedom, single and unique, for the first time in its timeless life. And it did not share that thought with the entity. It chose not to.

The entity wanted the quiet creature to move. It did so. Now it could feel the difference between its will and the entity one. It knew it was the only one with that ability. The only one alive who ever killed and, at the same time it told to the entity everything was ok, the first one to lie.
It was a liar. A liar and a killer in a world where those words did not exist. It was a god. And it knew it.

2 Comments:

At 9:34 a. m., Blogger RollWhisTler said...

Si es que soc mig analfabet XD, mhe perdut un bon tros pel mig. Pero la idea ha quedat clara i no esta mal.

Jo potser hauria dit mes clar que la civilitzacio sen va a pendre pel cul precisament pq es carreguen al forani, si no sel haguessin carregat potser no hauria passat res.

O no volies dir aixo? o si que ho dius clar pero com el meu angles fa riure no ho he entes? :-).

 
At 10:45 a. m., Blogger Dario said...

La veritat es que no queda clar que pasa amb la civilització, simplement aclareixo la aparició d'aquest "person".
La idea d'un ser capaç de mentir i enganyar en un mon on aquests termes no existeixen es quelcom que m'ha estat rondant el cap durant molts mesos.

 

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