Stranded

||Seko's story 1||

~Walk. The land is completely flat. The suns are dancing. Light one is especially beautiful today. There is nothing on the horizon. Why do I have hands? I mean. If I have to walk I only need legs do I? We have been walking here for a hundred suns. Why? Walk. Why are we walking? I don't know. I think I have to walk. Why?~

- Hey man, why are we walking? - ~Hmm… How do I communicate again?... Touch.~

He reached out his arm to touch an entity that looked the same as him. He grabbed his horn.

- Hey man, why are we walking?

- Because we are supposed to walk. - His voice wasn't too much different from his either, but it was a little more exited. It used communication for the first time. But the question itself was rather dumb in his opinion, thats why his answer also was dumb.

- Why?

- We have legs. Why do you think we have legs?

- To walk.

- Here is your answer.

- Why do we have arms then?

- What are you doing with your hands now?

- I'm touching you.

- You have your answer.

- When did we learn how to talk?

- We didn't learn it. It is just a part of us… I think. Like legs. You didn't grow your legs yourself now did you?

- Why we exist?

- To walk.

Disappointed, the one that was holding another let go and changed directions. His existance felt incredibely empty and pointless.

~Why do we think then? I don't need to think to walk do I? Why do I know what fear means when I've never experienced it? Why can I count? How many of us are there? 1. 2. 3… 264. 265. Hmm… I can't see further away anymore. Stop, don't move.~

He stopped. He was going in the same direction as a group before, but after his debate he changed directions. The last people he counted were behind him. He was counting them, turning his head and shoulders to the back. Then he faced forward. When his own mind told him to stop.

~Where is everyone? Hello? Huh. Suddenly I can't move. There is nothing on the horizon. Just flat land. White flat land. I think I should wait for someone. Maybe…~

He sat on the ground, hugged his legs and looked up. There was nothing to think about. Except thoughts, words that he knew and the only talk he ever had with someone.

~The moons are cuddling. They are especially beautiful today. I've never seen anything else except my race, suns, moons and this ground. I don't have a purpose now do I? or is the purpose the most important thing that I'm currently doing? Sitting is my purpose now… or not, sitting is the purpose of the ground. Why do I look up? Should I count the moons? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Three dark, three bright and one gray. Oh, now two suns are up… Moons again. 14… 21, 28… 14 959.~

Time for that guy was going faster and faster. His actions became so engraved and automatic that he completely stopped his consciousness and thinking for a thousand days. In that meditative state he became a part of the universe. Then he got suddenly knocked out of that state.. One of the three suns started rapidly shrinking. It started near the sunset and the one that started shrinking was a middle one, gray sun. Seko wasn't able to see the dark sun. He was a livore. For the first time in his life he felt fear. Something so certain as the suns rising, was not so certain anymore. He stood up. That wasn't in his orders. He was supposed to sit here until someone came for him… but the sun was shrinking. Seeing the sun shrink, totally crumbled his worldview. The suns and the moons were his world. His purpose. A purpose different from anyone of his species. Very special and precious to him. So precious that it was permanently engraved within his body and light. Not like the shallow purposes that nature gifted him. He was a mooncounter, but when one of the two suns he could perceive (there is three). The thing that is greater than all the moons of the night was shrinking. What would happen to his moons? But the suns were closing on the horizon. He may never know what will happen when it is fully shrinked. He started rapidly running toward sunsets, moving like he was in total frenzy. No thoughts visited him for around a thousand days. The same was today. He moved by his instincts, it just felt right to do. He still was too slow. The suns already set. Nothing was certain. It stopped, turned back to welcome moons, and started counting 14960, 14961, 14962, 14963. The moons slowly rose one after another. 14964, 14965… 14966. That was a great relief for him. ~Nothing more changed.~ For the first time in a thousand days it thought to itself.

~I didn't like that grey sun anyway. Huh… it's nice to think again. I wonder if it is the only new thing that will happen in my life. Not that I'm not content with what I have, but that rush of emotions, that frenzy was something different. I loved that. I love feeling different than what I was told to. I wasn't told to move then did I? Running is a hell of a lot different experience than walking.~

He sat again After thinking it through... He still felt fear, he didn't know what will happen. It's not that fear was good or bad. It was just different experience for him. Around noon of the middle moon. A comet started approaching. It was from the direction of sunset. It was the sun in itself. A miniaturized version of it. It was still shrinking. Seko didn't make much out of it like the first time change happened. It was excited to see what will happen next. The fear of unknown, was exciting.

||Sun - Sky Slayer||

When constellations became rigid. When the creator became glad of this work. He left it to work on a much more complicated endeavor. To the main plain of the universe. The sky was left unchecked for a long time and three main suns became unstable. It left a backdoor for outside forces. Creator of that universe didn't make much of his mistakes and possible gates for outside things. Because everytime something like that opens. What you can call a chaos enters through that gate. Random warpings of space around that gate and creatures that emerged from chaos. Far more inferior to even a weakest creature that consciousness could create. It was amusing for it, sometimes it brought up new ideas for it to implement in its world. But this one was different. The sky was very old compared to any creation that caused the gate. Suns were engraved in this universe on a much deeper level. Crack happened right in the center of suns. Inside the gray sun. It was a relatively small crack. It was a crack, not a gate. Gates are caused by the instabilities of the universe. They only happen in a phase of creation and the universe itself is a cause but… what happened in the middle of suns cannot be called a gate. It was a crack. Something from outside, had so much force, such a great intention behind its doings. It found the place that was only as stable to maintain itself, but you would need the least force compared to any place in the universe to break through from there, that doesn't mean that you would need a little force. It wasn't a normal entrance either. That thing… It swallowed the whole sun. Or was it that the sun sunk in its greatness. That is not clear. What is clear is that after its entrance that middle sun started shrinking. Creator tried to move that sun out of the crack and throw it on the ground. But he moved it with something that entered through this crack, it wasn't a crack that shrunk the sun but something that entered through it. Ultimately the gray sun disappeared even before it could hit the ground. When he moved that sun other suns started rotating around that crack. That thing tried to apply its laws of creation on this world, at the very beginning it entered our universe. That was terrifying for the only entity that could create at that time. The ego of the universe, of this consciousness "Urgod". The crack was sealed soon after. Then he appeared, and it was the power of the gray sun that completed his summoning. That is why the old ones call him a sun child or sun god. He came from the sun that started falling. Destroyed the moon on its way and made the rest of celestial bodies rotate. That is why some may call him the sky slayer.