Chapter 17: Chapter 17
Brain storming
The colony of intragalactic visitors was a bee hive of
activity. Re had called all of them for a meeting and in
thousand years they had never gathered .. the whole cavern
was lit with the floating lights..
The rock elevations were lit and looked very festive .. The
furniture was arranged in front of the spacecraft in a circle
.
. Most of the seats were already occupied except for few ..
The community was excited as they had been waiting for
thousand years without knowing the reason for the wait.
They did not know from where they came and they did not
know how they found the perfect place to live in or they
had no idea how the spaceship parked under a mountain..
They remembered everything else though! They could
remember how they looked originally.. Their body was just
the brain and eyes like a blob of jelly and could change
shape or become invisible. But they were so very small
compared to the earthlings. They were unlike earthlings
and knew within days that they were far superior to them
but their size was enormous .. They tried initially to
transfigure like the earthlings but however they tried they
couldn’t get their size . The result was the beautiful human
like dwarfs and they thought the human shape was much
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more useful when it came to mobility. So they transfigured
and remained as a replica of human but for the size..
They had never mingled with the giants for a long time
nearly thousand years..But they killed or frightened them
and got what they wanted. They understood that the human
beings were incapable of seeing from whole of their body
and they feared what they couldn’t see..
Once they knew the human’s weakness, it became easy to
live .. But they maintained a distance from the human until
they met the boy Oliver.. He was not like any other human
.
.he took them for granted ..he liked being with them as
they took the form of animals that were indigenous to this
place and imitated his dialect .
They were surprised to know they died like insects..lived
less than 100 years and died ,when they could live for
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0000 years.. so killing the humans were like killing the
insects.. They used him to forecast the death and killed few
humans to make Oliver popular and through him they got
what they wanted .. But the man called Oliver taught them
the emotions .. whenever someone died , the entire
community mourned and Oliver lamented for a long time
whenever someone died .. They understood a little bit of
sentiments of the human and stopped killing the humans
They had roamed freely as invisible forms ,throughout the
planet to find their origin.. but all they could find was that
these primitive beings did not have the knowledge of space
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travel as they used a heavy liquid fuel and the vehicle was
so cumbersome..
They moved from country to country in search of their
origin..
Finally they concluded that they could never move from
this place or find a home of their own..
But the radio signal they heard changed everything..If their
ethnic group was somewhere there in the vast universe
,
they could get help… But Re was confused so thought of
discussing with everyone as they had all roamed freely
through this planet and knew all the resources available..
Re was with Zo and Ro. Re wanted to know what they
think about the radio signal and if they had any knowledge
of connecting to the source . He told them this was their
last chance to find their origin..
Zo said, ‘ it wouldn’t help as all the females want to find
their origin whereas the male want to go anywhere ..they
just want to move out.. usually the females win in any
arguments ..
They laughed together and Ro said, ‘ this should not be the
last time we laugh together’
They were highly apprehensive as after so many years ,
they got some lead.. Re went out where all were seated ..
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There was a festive mood as everyone laughing .. The sense
of humour and other emotions came easily to them..The
best gift of humanity..
Zo asked them if they knew the latest development..
One of the females replied, ‘ you mean the radio signal?’
‘Yes and the implication of it ‘ Re answered .
Another male asked , ‘if we could trace the signal , we
could send for help .. but these primitive giants don’t have
anything to trace the signal..!’
‘So the signal is of no help’ Re looked around.. Now they
were little subdued..
A female , ‘ no , we have the knowledge which they lack..
so we can get the work from them’
They were arguing among themselves and Re let them
squabble for some time .
Re asked them to listen, ‘ you were all discussing about the
signal .. it was obvious that it would be difficult to trace the
origin with the available resources of the earthling . Even if
we could trace it ,we have to wait until we get a reply.. It
becomes an useless exercise..’
‘Do you have a suggestion then’ one female asked
Re looked at all of them ‘Well , we have the spacecraft as
well as the fuel and the speed is hundred times that of the
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speed of light .. we know to manoeuvre it , we have
enough space for all of as in the craft.’
Another one intervened, ‘ But we knew all these all along
but yet we never tried to use it because we could not find
how to take it out.. ‘
‘Yes, was it the only reason that we had not tried earlier?’
Ro replied , ‘ we lost the starter key , superluminal particles
emitter and the location fixer . so without all these we
cannot move on our own. Now let me know our action
plan’
Zo replied immediately,’ we found recently the life support
that is needed while transiting.. so the possibility of finding
the other lost gadgets is high .. I would propose to search
for the lost gadgets;’
They argued among themselves and finally one female
said, ‘ What Zo tells makes sense as the gadgets must have
been lost here . So the area of our search is less .. we can go
for it’
Re laughed and said . ‘ we have been searching for it for
the past thousand years ‘’nothing has changed ‘
Zo replied, ‘the situation has changed when we have found
the life support which had been lost and we had been
searching for the same for so long now this discovery gives
us a hope’
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Re was pensive for sometime.. , ‘ yes Zo ..now the
situation has changed true.. we have some friends among
the humans , and in this past thousand years the humans
have come a long way in space research ..so we will keep
both the options open.. one group can search for the lost
gadgets in and around Tim’s land and another can go
around the world to important space research stations and
trace the signal .’
‘
I will be with the group who stay here to search for the
gadgets and Zo and Ro can take the others who would like
to go around the world in search of the source of the signal
.
. we start tomorrow ’Re left
Zo and Ro remained there to sort out the group..
Re left and he wanted to connect with Frank and then he
thought better of it . He could go and meet him in person ..
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