The Relics- The Keystone Trilogy - Part 1 by Michael K. Damron

Author:Michael K. Damron [Damron, Michael K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Michael K. Damron
Published: 2018-11-16T00:00:00+00:00

This is where my first memory of life began, in Sanctuary. As a young girl, I grew up in a provincial village with a cohort of other children. We were all one big family. There was school, chores, play, socializing, and many other semblances of what we would soon learn to be part of a different kind of life experienced outside the reality we were living in. It was confusing at first, then devastating to find out we were forcibly removed from our parents and placed in a virtual world. We had no clue what the outer world was really like. The older siblings, who had been placed in Sanctuary as young children or teenagers, tried to explain how it was. They claimed Sanctuary was a better place to be, that overpopulation and epidemic disease made the outer world unlivable. But for a short time, we felt like prisoners in a virtual penitentiary.

The negative feelings soon drifted away when we were essentially given keys to the kingdom upon finishing our education. One thing we could do, which we were told that people in the outer world couldn’t, was physically change any aspect about ourselves and the virtual world we inhabited. The provincial village we all grew up in was simply a holding area to teach us basic principles and fulfill the human need of belonging to a tribe. The facade constructed around me and my fellow siblings was lifted when our primary education ended. The virtual world was much larger and grand than we could have ever imagined. We went from being people who occupied a finite village to world builders who occupied an infinite realm. We were gifted the ability to form anything we wanted in a certain amount of digital space given to each sibling after their initial education. Within that space, the limits of what you could create was only restricted by your imagination. I built the perfect life for myself in Sanctuary—we all did. For example, I didn’t like the sound of the voice I had grown up with, so I changed it. My skin color was soon altered to light blue and other features changed to become a representation of something I believed to be truly beautiful. We were all beautiful in our own chosen way. Anyone could be any color they wanted from the visual spectrum, any size and shape, have human or animalistic features, and choose to live in anything from mansions to hammocks to a hole in a hillside. We made the plants in our space whatever color and shape we wanted. There were those who chose to live in fantasy environments, futuristic, medieval, ancient Egyptian, whatever they desired. When everyone has everything they could ever need, hatred and jealousy don’t have a chance to permeate into the culture. There wasn’t a strong emphasis on religion or belief in a better afterlife; we had already, in our opinion, created for ourselves the vision of our own personal heaven. It was the perfect

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