The Legend of Socket Greeny by Tony Bertauski

Author:Tony Bertauski [Bertauski, Tony]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: science fiction dystopian fantasy socket greeny
ISBN: 9780982845240
Publisher: Bertauski
Published: 2010-12-08T00:00:00+00:00

Child of Fetter

It was such a relief when I stepped out of the ship. My telekinetic presence pushed outward like a star. I connected with all the Mojave Desert. The ecosystem and organisms in it remained separate, their own existence, but I felt their movement, their compulsion, hunger and pain and pleasure.

I stopped at the top of the nearest dune. Desolation was as far as I could see, but the desert teamed with life at the cellular level. My presence continued to expand, crawling across the desert, its reach going farther and farther, knowing and becoming the physical world for several miles. Fetter had changed me, stretched my senses beyond the limitations of human existence. I was now like the universe, expanding outward. Becoming everything.

The sun was still overhead, but I didn’t feel it. I was utilizing and storing the sunlight, converting its heat into energy. The universe had the potential for endless giving. I was channeling that energy into my being.

I sliced time, speeding my metabolism at the cellular level. The sun stuck above me and the slight breeze died in the stillness of earth’s frozen moment. The world would not resume their lives while I walked the desert. I needed it to be still for a while. It would be a long walk.

I willed the sand to whirl in front of me, blowing out of the way and forming a flat path. There was a time I pondered the purpose of life. I didn’t like pain. I didn’t like emptiness, couldn’t understand why anyone would exist to suffer, it wasn’t rational. Why try? Could I just get my life over with? We all had to end, so what’s the point of suffering until then? When I discovered my Paladin powers, I understood the inseparable oneness of us all, the immortal existence of the present moment, how each life was precious and that I could help others understand that truth for themselves. That with understanding, all people could find peace, experience the pure joy of their existence.

But I’m nothing like them. I’m just a signpost, an image, a reflection of their potential. Just a program.

I willed the dunes to flatten out before me. I uprooted scrub and rolled away boulders with a flicker of thought, walking straight across the endless desert. I walked for miles, and in all that time the sun did not move. My body did not exhaust in the timeslice. Not only was I drawing on the sun’s energy, I was taking it from the life around me – the insects and snakes and rodents – as they became part of my existence, connecting telekinetically with my body. I took from their mitochondria. I took from the atoms that constructed their being, from the magnetic balance of protons and electrons, took from the neutrinos, up quarks and down quarks. I took essence.

I am a child of Fetter. The black planet.

So be it.

And with the endless supply of essence, the secrets of the universe unfolded in my mind.

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