Radio Life by Derek B. Miller

Author:Derek B. Miller [Miller, Derek B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781529408591
Google: hxXQDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 1529408598
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2021-01-21T00:00:00+00:00

MUSIC

When Elimisha saw the Earth spinning in front of her above the White Board she became breathless. She had never seen the Earth before and yet, as though awaking an ancient memory, she knew instantly what it was: a child returning to a lost home. There was a terror in seeing a physical object hovering in front of her but the fear was calmed by the tranquillity of the scene itself. The Earth rotated, unique and whole, leading Elimisha away from loneliness and outwards towards wonder.

As she looked and watched it slowly moving, she remembered that she had heard something too – a greeting.

‘Hello,’ a voice had said. ‘How may I help you?’

‘Hello?’ Elimisha says softly, looking past the sphere to the girl on the wall and after, to the open door behind her.

‘Hello, how may I help you?’ it repeats.

This is a man’s voice. He is an adult. His voice is deep and comforting, like listening to her father when the lights are out and the bonfire on the Green flickers over the ceiling in her bedroom.

‘Where are you?’ she asks.

‘Right here,’ he answers.

‘Right . . . where?’

‘With you, to assist you.’

‘Assist me with what?’

‘Whatever you need.’

Elimisha removes the glasses. The Earth disappears.

‘Can you still hear me?’ she asks the voice, testing an idea that the glasses and the voice are connected, just as the images and the glasses surely are.

There is no answer.

Her trainers would tell her to breathe and control her fear. Her mother would tell her to steel her heart and remain brave. Chief Lilly would tell her to reason through the problem. ‘Ask a question, think of a possible answer and then try and prove yourself wrong. If you fail to prove yourself wrong, it does not mean you are right. It means your confidence in your answer has gone up. That’s all. Only when no one can prove you wrong can you be properly confident. But even then, you must hold onto the possibility that you might still be wrong. Why? Because maybe no one can find the flaw in your reasoning. Maybe you’ve reached the edge of your capacity for logic but . . . sadly . . . not the end of logic itself. Maybe, simply put, you don’t know how to prove yourself wrong.’

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