by Beers,David
Caesar had wanted to know what the voice was, and after a few seconds of struggle, he did.
* * *
"What is it? What's wrong?" Nome said, standing up and turning on a lamp, casting light throughout the dark tent. He heard his wife moving to, though slower than him.
"It's coming back," Julius said, tears streaking his face.
"What is?"
"It," he said and Nome understood.
The other.
How? He wondered. How is that even possible?
Old man, you know little about this, and your only saving grace is that you know how little you know.
"What's happening?" he said to the sobbing boy.
"I'm scared. I don't know what it's going to do, but it's stronger than before. It's stronger, Nome!" The boy ran forward, wrapping his arms around Nome's waist. The old man's arms dropped and he touched the boy's back.
"It's okay," he said. "It's going to be okay." He knew no such thing, though. The other was powerful, extremely so, and Nome had tried to protect the boy from it for years, finally thinking they had managed to silence it forever.
There is no forever. You do know that. Not for you, not for this boy, not for anything on this Earth. Not even for the Earth. All things end.
"NO IT’S NOT!" Julius screamed into Nome's shirt. The boy's hands grabbed onto his back, pressing hard enough to bring pain. Nome didn't flinch or back away.
"Yes it is. Yes it is. Shh," he said, trying to calm Julius as he had years before when the other spoke. Knowing though, that like those times, Julius wouldn't calm and Nome couldn't stop the other from coming. They had to weather it; there was no other choice.
Julius suddenly grew heavy in his arms and Nome realized he was collapsing. He pushed the boy back while grabbing a solid hold on him. Julius's head lolled backwards as Nome moved him, his white eyes wide open and staring straight up at the ceiling. His mouth was open as if the boy saw something so fearful, yet so great, that he wanted to speak but no words existed to describe it.
"Help!" Nome shouted to his wife.
Hime was at his side in seconds, grabbing Julius from him and laying the boy down on the matted floor.
Nome stared at Julius, looking as the boy stared himself--seeing something that Julius couldn't, perhaps seeing for the first time in his life.
"What's happening?" Hime said.
"I don't know. We need to stay with him."
* * *
Lexi saw her brothers and sisters with perfect clarity. Her heart filled with joy and a love that even she hadn’t thought possible. All of them, all across the world, Rising to join her in her world.
She watched as one by one they shot up into the space before her, turning it into a sea of people.
The time had arrived.
Lexi came forward.
* * *
In one moment, Skelly was looking at her mother, telling her not to worry.
In the next, she stared at Lexi.
Andy stood next to her but neither looked at one another. They couldn't, and more, there was no need. All they needed was in front of them, glory unlike anything fathomable.
Others surrounded them but Skelly didn't turn to see these strangers. They mattered, she felt that much, but not like Lexi. These people would be important at some point in the future; they must have importance if Lexi brought them here.
Right now, though, only Lexi mattered.
Skelly hung in blackness, a universe unto itself, as did those around her. Lexi was in front of them all, slightly higher up, and clothed in her purple dress. Only instead of cloth this time, binary code moved up and down it, flowing easily. The code had a warmth to it, an attraction that made Skelly want to break rank and run to Lexi. To hug her, hold her.
She knew, though, when Lexi started speaking, she could only listen--and found complete happiness in that.
"I've waited a long time to speak with all of you," she said. "Longer than you can imagine and I've never been happier than in this moment. All of you are special, more special than you realize. Inside each of you lies the key to the universe that is coming. Inside each of you lies a god. I know many of you are scared right now and don’t understand what is happening, frightened that The Genesis may kill you at any moment--and truthfully, It wants to. Right now It's plotting to destroy all of us. To kill the entire human race and begin anew with Its genetic code instead of our own. I won't hide that from you, but I will say, don't fear it, brothers and sisters. Not even for a second. You, all of us together, are more powerful than It can ever hope to be. It is a relic of the past and we will conquer It. Then we will destroy It.
"Finally, we will liberate humanity in a way that the gods of old only dreamed about. We will create the heaven that never came, right here on Earth.
"All of us together, in the next few weeks, will destroy the last shackles of chains clamped to humanity's leg."
To be continued in The Singularity Rising: Fate
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