1. The Earth's face
<Chemistry>
"Everything is either matter or paramatter"
The substances that the reality is composed by are either matter or paramatter.
Matter is life, is the origin of the reality and form where everything come from, paramatter, is the death, that origin itself by the end of a life.
That's the beginning of the chemistry book, that I've to learn but I already know all of this. The teacher was explaining this but I meanwhile was not hearing him.
I was just watching out of the window with my eyes glued at the tree in the garden near the school. Meanwhile I was enjoying doing nothing a whisper came from the mouth of my classmate Nathan that said
-It's almost your turn to read Henry, wake up from your drea...
He was interrupted mid-sentence by the teacher's gaze that made him freeze, after that my turn really arrived. How annoying! Is the first time that I read from the beginning of the year, usually the readers were always the same but the teacher had the good idea to switch the reader every paragraph.
So I started reading, just after my classmate indicated me where we were arrived so I cleared my voice but before starting reading I whispered:
- Thanks man, I owe you one!
***
30 minutes later the hour finished and we had a break, I took this time to think at my life and demanding myself if I have to investigate on it.
I am... I don't really know who or what but just who am I currently. I am a creature that keep dying and arise for the eternity for what I know. I don't know where all of this started, basing myself just for what I know this can be happening from an infinite time in the past.
If my life really ever had a beginning I wouldn't be able to tell about it anyway, because my oldest memories are just of 120 thousands of years ago, I guess because also I am subjected at the memory loss like the others human also if way less.
The realities where I arise and die time by time are very different between each other,but there are four things that keep happening in every repetition.
The first is that two people other than me have the same treatment, and I am always able to meet them someday in my life;
the second is that when two of the three of us die the third born in the new reality without needing to die in the past one; the third is that we have always some kind of help that give us possibilities that almost no one has;
the fourth is that when the first die it felt as he born immediately in the other reality, but he still born with the others, so if one of the three of us die he doesn't have a time advantage in the next reality.
I don't know when we knew each other,what I can say is that we shared a lot, we fought each other, we loved, we hated, we have been rivals, we have cried together, our character drastically changed through the time, we conquered planets and universes, we are also gone out of the concept itself of reality.
***
In the current life I am Henry Hunter, a 12 years old boy that lives in <The Bridge> that is the the second most large city in the world. It is a building-city that host 2 billions of people. And can easily be considered as the safest place of the Earth.
But I am not born there, but to explain my origin I want to also give you the basic knowledge about this reality's geography.
The Earth is a flat extension of land that for any human is impossible to explore, the humans occupied three continents, of the probably tens or hundreds that exists.
In the Earth doesn't exist any transport mean that is able to go faster than a human, and between the strongest man on Earth throughout the billions of years just a few of them have been able to go from an edge to the other of the biggest continent, and this trip took almost their entire life, just one of them survived 1 year after being arrived.
The continents are in fact huge, the biggest one is 2,2x10^476H, that means 22 and 475 zeros that fallow it. H is the unit of measure used in this world, H Is for human, in fact 1H is the average height of a male human.
As I said the continents where human live are three, the [Clay] continent (the biggest), the [Stone] continent (the second for size) and the [Ice] continent. Actually there is also another one where people live but the number of people that live there is very small because of the low amount of resources.
I'm talking about the [Volcano] continent, this has been discovered when human tried to find other continent to colonize them, this was the only one that was possible to colonize that because there is an archipelago that lead to the continent.
The other continents are not reachable also with multi generational trips because to do it you have to go through huge oceans without any recourses that you can get by the trip, so the last chance would be to bring it with you, but none kind of food would last hundreds of years.
In the continent where humans live there are two major states. The strongest one is Lype that is a monarchy, also if not a totalitarian one because the power is shared with nobles and feudatories.
The king has his title because of his strength,but he has to share his power because there are some people that can rival with him. The realm take his name from the dynasty that lead the country.
This is the country where I was born.
***
In this world there is a decimal system for the time. The month is composed of a hundred days and the year of a thousand of them.
The Earth is flat but the day and the night still exists because the two major stars don't actually exist physically but their effects are injected in the matter and paramatter itself. So everyone see the stars there.
Everyone and everything feel the consequences of their existence but they are not actually there. But is like everyone has them in themself. Their light is like impressed on the eyes of everyone and the heat is like part of the surface of everything.
I was born in the 10th year before the 6 billionth year of the human calendar.
When I was born everything was blurred because of my infant sight, this lasted for tens of days, in this time I focused knowing about my parents and the people around me hearing their voice.
like this I started developing a very good hearing that allowed me to understand who people was by touching them but also just hearing their steps, their voice, or also the knocking on the door.
I started learning the language from when I was born. In ten days I already knew the basics and in some weeks I learned the language as an average adult.
My parents were important people. We can consider them criminals but where we was the law wan not so much important. We lived in the biggest city on Earth with 8 billions inhabitants.
This city was called the <Core> and is over the ocean. The is over an artificial isthmus built to connect the two main continent and because there can be extracted the emeralds. Emeralds are minerals that by themself are useless but with two other minerals that can be found in the biggest two continents generate an immense energy that is very useful for the humans.
The other two minerals are the rubies and the diamonds, that are extracted in certain location of each continent where for that are born the biggest cities that humanity has ever seen.
The <Core> is the only one city that is divided by by different countries and realms. It is 47% of Lype, the 45% of the second most powerful country that is the <The Aleys' Republic> ( the Aleys are the inhabitants of the continent). The rest is of the biggest country of the <Ice> continent that is named <Avy>.
This city is the weirdest thing that you can ever see in your life. You can literally see building of thousand or million of H that are built an destroyed in a bunch of seconds. This shows how much is the human technology developed and how bloody is there the war.
The war in the <Core> is something normal and that is between the majors countries that to, never declare war to each other because they need each other for the minerals, so is mostly a war to sabotage the each other's financial interest.
But that doesn't mean that there aren't armed conflicts but just that this place is a place where there's no real legislation, so is not that easy to distinguish the private conflict between the countries' one, but also if sometimes the situation is clear everyone act like nothing happened to not fall in an escalation that would lead to a very huge war.
I understood my parent's position by their chatting in the reunion that they did with the others members of their organization. They bring me with them unconscious about the fact that I was able to understand their words.
They was members of an organization of rebels, that was fighting to free the city of <Core>. To be honest I laughed loud when I heard their words, I mean... I was a baby, there was no way for them to know that I was laughing at them.
However why I laughed is truly simple. I laughed because this was a real utopia. The <Core> was at the centre of the world discovered by humans and it had none geographic advantage so a country like that would be attacked by all the sides, the most likely scenario is that the majors countries would do an alliance to conquer again.
So I thought that this people was a bunch of idiots but with the time I understood that was not so impossible, because that had very strong connection and an increasing power through the city but also if the possibility are not zero are still very low.
So I still was not understanding why try this, then hearing their meetings I've got a better general idea. The majority of the highest members of this organization are friends, their childhood wasn't easy and what they got come from their own sacrifices, they are people with big and pure ideals.
So also if the possibility are low they still try because of their own motivation that let them built the organization, and to be honest what they did by now is also surprising. Was they a bunch of lucky idiots? I didn't know but I was still really interesting to hear what they said in their meetings.
I'm lucky to have got such parents, because thanks to them I had the possibility to get access to a lot of interesting information, and because my parents brought me a lot of time with them I had also the possibility to read some interesting stuff myself from my father's office.
My father was in general more included in the organization's stuff so I started crying when I was with everyone else so that they letted me be with him for a lot of time, that I could use to get more information.
To be honest I don't really cared of they discovering I wasn't a totally normal baby so I would have said them it directly, but the problem is that I was not able to speak because was hard to control my mouth and I had no teeth, and writing wasn't an answer too because I was seeing too blurred.