2.6|Hex

 

2.6|Hex

 

2 Months later

 

The sightless shielded Protlyn in the shade, far out in the meditating sanctuary on the edge of the city. "Not enough. Not enough. Not enough." She uttered, retreating into the deep of her psyche. "I can't let go. I can't control my actions... I can't control myself... No matter how much I want to it's too hard. It's just too hard. You can't do it on your own. I can't lose you again."

The sightless was no longer silent. Her voice resonated in the cool air. "What's with the gibberish sounds?" The sightless whispered.

She ignored them.

Elsewhere, in a strange landscape on the blurred edge of reality, the dark one stirred and shifted. Grahim leaned over, pouring black inky liquid over Protas and Raelyn. Protlyn was silent. Her body and soul were drained. There was no more reason left to reason with herself.

"Seems you two have been adjusting rather well with yourselves." Grahim

said. "Good good, and making friends with the natives too I see."

"Where's the other Novus?" Raelyn asked.

"Probably minding her own experience. How's meditation going?"

"Oh, well, I'll need to do a little more before I know. I'm trying to get a handle back on my psychic grasp and.. hey! Why the FUCK did you do this, why did you put us in the same body?"

"Hahahaha! You two are so silly sometimes. I'd love to keep your corpses around.." Grahim swam doing backstrokes in the goop, the red of her thousand eyes diluted like wet leather. "But it was a trick, a diversionary tactic."

"Elaborate." Raelyn asked.

"Ohoho, well.." Grahim rubbed the goop along their sizable bare chest, petting the red eye across it like scrubbing a pet. "Novus Intellica was looking for the perfect specimen to conduct our little experiment, and also to find Sandra so we could make our bet. We both agreed to only one candidate to operate, but I hedged my bets by having you both as one. It was fun, but ultimately serves an important purpose."

"How do you figure that?" Raelyn snapped.

"We all have the potential to become one with nature, and that will eventually work. And for you both, it's already working. Your mind is gone from your body, you no longer think as two at the moment. But right now, the Sightless should be witnessing the light..."

"The light?" Protas asked. "What is that?"

"The Cascade has many uses. Intellica's use of the medium is, unimaginative

to say the least."

 

The two began to flicker and pull together.

Suddenly, the landscape shifted.

The world shifted.. and changed.

 

There was a light..

It was coming from everywhere..

At the same time..

 

Everywhere...

 

Protlyn's eyes opened. Awakening from her trance, a burst of light radiated out of her like a pinwheel, exactly like the one she'd come into this world from. The sightless could see nothing their entire life, but before them now in their vision there were countless pinwheels. A thousand pinwheels. Millions.. billions of pinwheels.. spinning and twirling around one another. And it grew faster and faster. All made of the same cyan, vanilla tinted light emanating from Protlyn as she flickered, going into spherical nodes of energy around her connected by quantum lines of sub-atomic string wavelengths. Her form and entire shape, her colors and vivid presence flickered as she sat, eyes opening to reveal pure white.

The Sightless realized it. This gift, this light, these sights.

She felt like she was reborn. It was freedom.

It was knowledge.

It was everything.

It was... perfect.

 

This power, this concept had a name.

Hex.

 

Amity, days later after obtaining this energy at all cost stood surrounded by Oohts and a few Oohtlet assistants. She was in a full white rubber labcoat, her pack stuffed to the brim with operating devices. In front of her on a glass table was Baron. "C'mon.." she said, "Take him to the diagnostics testing room and I'll go to his, so I can get things started." Baron clanged, clacked, and stumbled, still in his comatose state.