Friday 9 July 2010

entry 3 - the mouse that wishes to read more

I've been wandering trough hyperlinks for the past years. If you wonder why I started writing this only now, the reason is easy to explain : I had no notepad. I kid you not. The other day I met a mouse, among the dunes. I had just been linked from a 'vampire' filled town, and I was ranting out loud. A little mouse passed by me and started replying to my angered self. The vampire, werewolf and disturbed teen filled town had destroyed my hopes on mankind, made me furious, angered, irritated. She talked back to me, and we laughed at the ridicule. Then she asked who I was.
"You are not from here, your eyes are not blue within blue"
"I came from another place. From outside the System."
"And what are you doing here, how did you come to here?"
I did not wish to tell her, that meant thinking about it and I had long promised myself I would not think about that. So I answered only half question.
"I'm traveling the System, getting to know about each and every link. I listen to their stories and keep them in my head. If one day I return I'll write them down and the other world, the real world " - she interrupted me to say - "your real world you mean. This is MY real world. And in any link you will find a different world, but all of them real."
"Ok, MY real world, I will know and show them that there is more under the skin of my reality than what we can guess".
"Why do you wait to return before writing? Would it not be better to write now? Before you forget?"
"I have nowhere to write... I forgot my notebook..."
"Follow me then" - She ran in front of me, and I followed into a underground cave. As we entered, a giant worm (and I do mean giant!) exited the sand behind us and opened it's great mouth, screaming.
"We are safe inside, worry not."
She showed me where I could grab a notebook and a pen, and then she said, before disappearing : "I hope you return here to show me your stories! I want to read about the other links."
I had no time to answer, and I was left alone in a rock cave under the sea of sand, where I slept the night, afraid to go out. In the morning, there was no sign of the giant worm, nor of the little brown mouse, so I came back to the HyperLink, and I will now enter again...

entry 2 - the wedding

Baleoth smiled with his eyes and grabbed her leftmost tentacle : "My dearest.. I love you. Your perfectly triangular, red eyes... red of passion! Your soft, long green fur, the color of blood... Your delicate touch, the way you hug me with all six tentacles, as if nothing else in the world is worth having... Your beak, the way you run it trough my skin.. I love you dearest, and I will yell at the Gods if they take you away from me!"
"Oh, Baleoth... And I love you too... I love your perfect body and your perfect mind, I love even your name... Baleoth... I love your name in my taste-glands, acid and cold... I want to lay your eggs, and sit on them for months... I long for the short beaks of our sons to break the eggshell and to see those small eyes looking at us.. Oh Baleoth I love you so"
The priest beak open and closed in a fast smile, a sign of joy and emotion. He rose all four of his free tentacles and read from the Book of Life :
"The Gods made the Neoumans to be above themselves. The Gods gave us Life and Love, and from Love we make more Life."
He made a short pause, smiled once more and then continued :
"In Love and for Life I pronounce you both as a Nest. May you cherish and flourish in it".

entry 0 - what is the Secret System?

My name is... Unimportant. I had a name ,once. And a family, and a house and all that thing that turns you into a person. Now all I have is this notepad and the adventures I live. The Secret System.. What is the secret system? Well, first of all, if you never heard of it, that's normal, it's secret. It exists at the same time and place that the rest of mankind. Yes you read it right, if you even exist. I write this for you, that elusive and strange being I feel looking over my shoulder. I can hear you breathing next to my ear when I'm running along in silence. And that one time, with the DreamFolk, I know I heard you scream!
But I digress. The Secret System exists in a fixed time slot, that runs along with our time slot, Mankind's time slot: I've been to the end of that time slot. I wish it was farther away... But there's no use in complaining. Not all will be lost at the end, I've been there, I've seen the end. Just because we all die, evolution won't stop, and there is something of us that survives... I digress again. Living in the System does this to you. You seem to lose focus...
I try once again : the Secret System is much like the internet, and not that much unlike our medieval world. It has not one, but several physical/temporal locations, connected trough travel portals, the 'HyperLinks'. Each such location is a reign, country, nation, what you call it. Some are as old has civilization, some are older, some are but a few days old. Some are small, I remember the room-city where the.. No, I will not tell of what happens there. I got out as soon as I could, should have had sooner. Some are big, huge, gigantic, with no end to see. You were there with me, you remember the Sea of Infinity and the Mountains of Forever and the Forest of Never-ending and the Immeasurable Desert. Some exist on the early Egyptian Civilization, some near the end of the World Coalition. For some reason, the greatest number of them co-exist with the 'regular' 21st century.
I've begun recently collecting and compiling memories of the inhabitants of the Secret System, and I shall write them down in this little, old, bartered notebook.
Now I go to sleep, in this 'my' little cabin in the woods. This the first I saw of the Secret Systems, and my first adventure here. But that is another story, for another entry...