a piece of forever

Setting: Another Kingdom,  15 trillion light years distant from earth's milky way galaxy

Time Frame: the present past and future as measured by our earth time/

the Eternal Now which encompasses the entirety of Earth Time, past present and future 

Characters: will present themselves as the story unfolds

     Haley woke up thinking she was dreaming, but she wasn't in her bedroom.  She was outside. She felt lightness in her body's frame. Her head was clear as a new morning. She felt joy emanating from every pore.

     Clouds stretched high above to the horizon like an inverted dome. In the distant beyond the meadow upon which she walked, a vast forest of shining trees beckoned her curiosity. She felt as if she were being guided there. Her walking felt more like it were energy provided by an outside force. She felt as if she were gliding on the ground which added to her feeling of weightlessness. It was effortless. This in itself added to the joy she felt, an exhilaration really.

     "It's like zero gravity. And yet, I'd float off into space if there weren't any."

     She instinctively added a slightly more forceful push by the soles of her right foot and instantly felt herself propelled upward as when one pushes while floating in water. The slight force was buoyant. It's then she noticed her feet were bare.

     "Oh wow! No shoes."

     Instinct rose to the occasion. She willed herself closer to the ground even while she walked toward the forest.

     "There's something about that forest that's drawing me."

     She didn't question how she had gotten here, she simple walked. There was something that gradually, eventually drew her inward attention. There was an absence of frictional drag on her skin.

     "I almost feel naked."

     She stopped to focus on her chest and lower torso, her legs and feet. There was white opaqueness about her garment. It was almost transparent. It was translucent. It looked like silk, yet it had no feel. It was as if her skin felt a vibrational field of a energy, a feeling of pureness, sustained by intelligence. It was as if the energy itself was a person.

     "I'm dressed in a glow of light. Wow, amazing. If I'm in a dream, sure feels real!"

     In the distance, movement caught her attention. There appeared to be a lone figure approaching. She continued to be magnetically drawn in its direction, closing the gap to a growing intensity of attraction. As if a magnet's force was pulling her, yet ever so gently. This force too conveyed an intelligence of itself.

     "Oh my, . . . it's . . it's - Kelly! Kelly!" She shouted.

     The valley sang in musical resonance in echo of her spoken shouts.

     The lone figure sprang into a run, bounding over fields of flowers.

     "Mom! Mommy! It's me - Kelly!"

     "Of course it's you, Honey!"

     She willed herself off the ground in flight, yet still vertical as if walking with no movements of her legs. She met her daughter enveloping her into her arms and bosom.

     "Kelly, you're alive!"

     "And so are you Mom!"

     They held each other tightly and cried tears, not of sadness, but of joy.

     Kelly had been abducted by someone several years ago. The perpetrator had demanded ransom which when delivered, failed to return her to her parents unharmed. Her parents had never recovered her body until years later. Excavators had found her bone fragments in an abandoned cellar. Evidence revealed instruments of a painful torture to her as a 12 year old.

     It was 9:30 a.m., Saturday morning. Haley's husband planned a trip to her favorite restaurant. He reached over to his wife's side of the bed. He was startled to feel a stiffness in her body. His heart skipped a beat of fear. He pushed her upper torso slightly as if to gently shake her to wake. He felt a resistance unlike supple flesh. A lump jumped to his throat and instant grief gripped him. He groaned realizing rigor mortis had set in sometime ago, probably an hour or so after they'd gone to bed. His eyes shot a glance to Hayley's night stand. The picture of Kelly showed her 8 year old smile. He burst into tears.