The Kindred's Answer
25A Cafe Kindred Story part XII (Final Chapter)
Special thanks to PEZ-S for his amazing soundtracks "Return Journey & Floaty Station Cube" from the Explorers 3 & 4 Albums. Check out his Bandcamp from the link below
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Very special thank you to Lillihop for her incredible graphic art design, and to all Cafe members who contributed to this mini series.
Thank you to CrisCros for the floating ball tutorial, idea and design https://youtu.be/eFAcwHNu9Kk
Thank you to the entire NMS community for all your support and encouragement which helped drive me to continue making this mini series.
The Kindred’s Answer
A Café Kindred Story Part XII (Final Chapter)
After several minutes of gazing into the swirling location teleporter device, they both emerge on a different land. Beautiful white grass, electrified egg like mushrooms scatter the ground. There’s a pinkish sky and clouds, a stunningly serene world.
A gateway inscribed with glowing hieroglyphs leads to a flowing river of nanites mysteriously hovering above the ground. The river flows from a glowing pyramid and a gigantic viewing monitor attached by organic cables. There’s a message, it reads “Follow River…. To the Truth”.
He asks himself, what do I already know? What did she mean? All along, she was the one, have I known my answer this whole time? What am I not remembering, what is the answer to life, the universe and everything? She told me “Home”, that can’t be the answer, I left home to discover the answers. Will this mysterious temple finally tell me what I supposedly already know? What am I missing?
While he ponders these thoughts, she rushes off towards the gateway, he tries to pursue but is held back by a strange feeling. Floating motionless, he cannot move. Confused and suspended, he watches his friend and guide cross the gateway and up the river stopping briefly and looking back. She motions him to come, turns and enters the pyramid only to vanish before his very eyes.
Released from his entrapment, he drops to the ground and walks through the gateway. Looking up towards the river, it winds to the pyramid like a floating path. Slowly he steps forward onto the river, it tingles at his feet. Nanites course around his footsteps as if they were parting around rocks in water.
Reaching the pyramid, there’s an opening with cubes marking the entrance. Flashes of a message he’s seen before phase in and out of the glass. Thinking nothing of it, he enters. There’s a glowing booth inside, pausing for a moment he thinks his friend is waiting for him on the other side. Stepping forward, he vanishes like his friend before him.
Utter silence…. White blinds his vision, he can barely make out the walls. He turns looking for his friend…..nothing, where is she?
The white room reminds him of what it must feel like to be inside a circuit. He steps forward and a sphere rises from nowhere. He asks his question….. nothing. Dropping to his knees, asking again, begging for answers. Where is my friend? What is the answer to life, the universe and everything?
Two legs stand before him. He stands up and looks…. Confused he sees the village elder standing in front of him. The elder points at him, in his head he hears “YOU ALREADY KNOW”. Morphing into a different person he sees the VyKeen pilot who traded ships with him….he points and says the same words, “YOU ALREADY KNOW”. One by one, all the travellers he met along his journey morph, point at him and say the same thing.
Confused and crying, he searches his mind for the answer. Finally, his friend appears…..She points at him like the others, telepathically he hears her say “Café 42, your home”.
As she vanishes a message appears on the floating sphere. That same message he’s ignored throughout his entire journey…. “Café 42”. Suddenly he remembers all the places he’s seen that message, she was right, he’s known all along and every temple he’s visited showed him this message. As the memories flash, pure white seeps in until it’s all he can see, then black.
He opens his eyes…. He’s sitting at a table, his table in his old village…..HOME! He remembers everything! Looking around he’s never been so thankful to be home. He thinks where is my friend? Just then a figure appears in the kitchen, it’s her! She walks towards him at the table, she smiles and asks, “what are you thinking?”
The iteration begins again……
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