Progenitor by Christopher John Chater

Author:Christopher John Chater [Chater, Christopher John]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Chater Publishing
Published: 2013-11-17T00:00:00+00:00

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I dragged Morgun’s corpse into Applejack’s quarters and said, “I want to inhabit this body.”

Applejack turned away from the window to look at me placidly. “Lie down next to the carcass and prepare yourself. Transferring consciousness is indistinguishable from death.”

I laid down next to the dead body. The orb came to hover over me. A humming noise came from it, and then I felt like someone was tearing me apart atom by atom. I screamed in agony!

When I opened my eyes, I was no longer on Progenitor. Was I dead? Was this heaven? It sure looked like it.

I was standing in the luxurious living room of a high-rise apartment. The double doors to a balcony were open. Outside, there was a view of a city unlike anything I’d ever seen. Skyscrapers stretched into the clouds. Domed buildings were submerged beneath the surface of the ocean, becoming visible during a receding tide. Miles offshore, there were communities on floating platforms. A bright yellow sun, beaming in a clear blue sky, was making everything sparkle like gems. This place was amazing.

Someone knocked on the door.

“Come in,” I said.

It was Hannah.

“Is it really you?” I asked.

“I am not Communications Officer Hannah Merrick,” she said. “You’re currently experiencing a computer construct built for our non-corporeal inhabitants. This is a virtual representation of a time in our civilization’s past, a time of relative peace and prosperity.”

“It’s beautiful. Peaceful. Why would you want to leave here?” I asked.

“As hard as it may be to understand, the ugliest reality is better than non-reality,” she said.

She was right. Though she looked like Hanna, I knew it wasn’t her, and despite all the beauty here, I’d rather be in my ugly reality with the real her.

I turned to the computer-generated woman and said, “I need to go back.”

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