ICE SPIRIT

At the centre of Antarctica, inside a great depth beneath, there was a Small white spark that looked like a little bug that tried to get out of the ancient ice surrounding it.

The White bug like spark had vague consciousness and knew it was born and nurtured here, always surrounded by the casing of the ancient ice that existed since time immemorial. It was only recently that the Little white spark gained some consciousness and tried to move out from the surrounding ice casing to see what was outside.

Although it only had a vague bit of consciousness, it had some sort of instinct to go outside. It had repeatedly tried for sometime and eventually gave up and started moving around in the ice casing, as if chasing an imaginary friend.

Although it was dark inside the ice casing, the Little spark could clearly "sense" its surroundings. Its intelligence was no different than a baby's. It was curious about everything and wanted to get outside the ice casing but the ancient ice casing was too firm and solid for it.

Eventually in time as the Little spark jumped about inside the dark ice casing, it found out that it felt "weak" and "tired". It had a kind of sensation to just stop moving around and stay at one place quietly.

It came to the centre of the ice casing. At the centre laid a small one-foot wide circular hole which was half-foot deep and strangely enough it was filled with deep white milk-like fluid and a faint mist drifted about it in the dark.

The Little spark made a quick run around the hole and immersed itself inside it. After running about in the ice casing and trying to get out from there, the Little spark's vague consciousness got stabilized and through it, the Little spark knew that this fluid which filled the small hole had given it some "consciousness" or ability to move around freely.

Although it didn't remember how it came into being, it vaguely knew that it was due to this milk-like fluid.

Being immersed inside the fluid, the Little spark after a moment, immediately felt "energized", it had a kind of feeling that it could jump around and play all it liked once again. But it didn't do that this time. Instead it quietly lay inside the fluid. after quiet a while, the Little spark felt that "something" was trying to get inside its "consciousness". It immediately felt "scared" and the Little spark which had just been recently born, for the first time since it's birth felt this type of sensation and it truly didn't like it. It's instincts made the Little spark want to get out of the fluid and run as much far away from it as possible.

But as it tried to jump out from the fluid, It realised that it was stuck inside it as if that "something" didn't want it to leave.

Eventually the "something" that tried to force itself into Little spark's "consciousness" gradually got a stronger hold of the overall situation. Although Little spark only had a tiny miniscule of consciousness, it didn't want to let go of it. It felt very scared and that if it doesn't resist then once its "consciousness" is gone then it would disappear too.

It began to struggle inside the fluid and started to flicker rapidly but eventually its flickering slowed down as if it was about to go dim and merge with the darkness inside the ancient ice casing.