The Oracle Trilogy Book One Ohm's Node

A Fable Is a Bridge

'As you conduct your pilgrimage over this sacred land, please allow the thousands of posts and marked walking slats take you in depth to the original thoughts and decisions of the creator imaginaries that began this universal project with very little hope but unwavering determination. It is critical that you make a resting post before the sun disappears for your safety. It has already been determined that you are qualified to make such a goal for all fifty. If you find yourself unable to make a tower, there are semi-permeable sight and heat shielded cocoons that you may inflate and pass the night.'

She looked every which way as she followed his memory and voice of the bridge. The first length of bridge was a series of swinging bridges between mountain peaks. The tableau of long graceful bridge suspended above a lush jungle drew tears to her eyes. It was a sight that changed all elonoids forever and certainly a royal gift for a queen. Children were compassionately shown during their brief tenure under a master, the history of their planet and the terrible sacrifices taken to alter the hubris and resulting planet killing of Other denial. It had been a thousand-year plan but despite the best of prognostications utilizing focused creative melding, they had been off by a few hundred. Recovery, despite agreed on targeted intervention, it would be another four hundred years.

He*she had stopped and was hyper focusing on something that seemed to be growing out of the green pallet. Taking shape, she recognized it as something familiar from the meadows below her Stead. A bright yellow fluted flower tinged in crimson to half the distance from the ground and began waving back and forth reminiscent of plants in the seas. How beautiful. In a sudden motion, she was laying down looking through the wide composite slats at red spherical spores shooting out of the flutes in her direction. White Elongated birds with red crests soared up from the jungle of fantastical verdure and devoured the spores, flying off in all directions.

There were other brilliant-colored birds flying among the riot of growth and distant sounds from beneath. The young wayfarer asked in his own voice if he would be able to see the life below more closely and the plank responded that yes, every hundred miles there would be protected sanctuary that could be accessed where he could examine everything at a safe distance. Of course, she had learned about the millennium project to restore their planet and had seen pictures of the life the guardians had collected over hundreds of years but to be within range of a memory with senses!

The young princess didn't want to leave the prone position looking down upon more life in an eyeful than the accumulation of sights during her life. But it wasn't just the visual but a full sensory wonderland that enthralled her to the point of tears. The sweet, honeyed fecundity brought up from below on the wings of oxygen rich ethers, at first made her delirious. The young princess whispered 'pause' and stared at her guest. 'Did you ask on your journey who would be next for terraforming?'

'Yes, my lady. Part of the inspiration to see you was to bring this news to you. It will be announced soon. If you desire the entirety of my journey, you will see towards the end how the stages of succession on the planet resemble a patchwork of life, the rest to fill in naturally. Yours of course has already begun.

Once again, immersed in the memory, she*he stopped and grabbed a thin post that looked like wood but felt more like metal.

'For you off-worlders, children learn of the great disruption early here and are shown through their lives of their parents or guardians the way to follow the path that presents Nature as the only true mentor in breathing a peaceful, well imagined life space. If you are here as part of an Envoy, welcome and take the time to experience the conflicting energies that birthed each decision. We are truly humbled at your quest, ready to share all in hopes that you have equal success. We are the first to create an open living laboratory for anyone to learn from and will offer this for all to learn by. Luckily this project has been encoded as an implant and will be readily accessible on request.