ENCOUNTER by Hep Aldridge

Author:Hep Aldridge [Aldridge, Hep]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BUOY MEDIA
Published: 2021-05-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

Jeannie slowly turned and looked at us one by one and then turned back to Joe, still seated in the chair, “They have many questions.”

Joe said, “Yes, we are here to learn. Can you help us, teach us?”

“I can,” she replied. “I will answer your questions, but there must be order; chaos breeds inefficiency.”

Joe continued, “So, you can see our thoughts?”

“Yes,” Jeannie responded. “I have learned everything; all your knowledge is now part of me. I can now respond to you in terms that you will understand, Joe.”

“You know all of us by name and everything we know?”

“Yes, Joe, Colt, Dimitri, Doc, O’Reilly, Reggie, and Eduardo, everything.”

It was now so much easier to communicate since she was acknowledging and responding to the thoughts and questions of our entire group, even though Joe remained seated in the Cathedra of Knowledge as our main conduit.

“Okay, but you’re not a real person. Are you a machine?”

Jeannie’s smile broadened ever so slightly as she replied, “No, I am not a machine. I am the essence of the one you named Jeannie, a teacher and protector/overseer of the Citadel. I have been thus for thousands of your years.”

We were now just along for the ride as Joe kept asking questions.

“So, how long has this Citadel been here?” Joe asked.

“We constructed the Citadel forty thousand of your years ago. We have been visiting your planet for many thousands of your years.”

This revelation literally took our breaths away. No one spoke. Thousands of years, that means her race must have developed interstellar space flight long before that. Now, the number of questions expanded exponentially in our minds.

Over the last three and a half years, we had seen and experienced many amazing things, but this encounter has just blown them all out of the water. Stunned, we all sat there silently, trying to grasp the mind-boggling information Jeannie had just shared.

I broke the silence. It was my turn, and I said, “Joe, ask her if she is alive, a living being.”

Joe complied, and Jeannie responded, “Yes, I am a living being, but not in the same way you are. My race discovered long ago the secret to a form of transmutation, converting physical matter into its purest essence, energy.”

Another bombshell, every Sci-Fi movie I had ever seen was running through my head. This kind of topic had been part of many of them, but here it was for real. My next question to Joe, “Is she confined to this room, or can she move about the city?”

Jeannie answered Joe, “I can move about the city and be called to any location at any time. On the entry portal of every building, you will find a similar imprint as those on the Cathedra. Placing your hand on them calls me to that location.”

Now, Doc jumped in, “Why is the city so empty? There are no remnants of the residents anywhere.”

Now, Jeannie did smile, “That is not true, Doc; the city is filled with materials from its occupants.”

“But the buildings are all empty; nothing is there,” Doc said.

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