“I'm a people person.”
Hannibal Lecter* #quote
Today television watched me. I wasn't
as entertaining as it. Anyway onto the flash fiction!
The Eternity Experiment
I'd have to consult my notes to tell
you how old I am. Or even my last name. I go by my real first name
whenever I can. It's Amanda...I think. I've been going through so
many era's I've lost track. Really I didn't keep enough notes at the
start to really tell my true age. I do like the name the genie gave
me: Clock. I have no idea what I look like either. I'm swapping
between skin and hair colors now while deciding what era to go to
next. Gotta fit in right?
The genie has a good memory with
everything but dates and people's faces. Considering how many he's
seen and how much time has passed. He did tell me that I was a
historian though. I could tell that from what I wished for. And what
has kept me occupied for so long. I wished for immortality, the power
to travel through time and change history, and his magic help me do
whatever I want in history. Apparently the only way the last one
could happen is if he tagged along with me forever. And also his
bottle transformed into some sort of neutral time-space away from
Earth and all the time-lines I visited and created. The genie said he
didn't understand how it worked beyond how to operate it, and his
bosses didn't want him to know either. Didn't know they had bosses.
I suppose I've said all this so I
could both brag and confess. I've been experimenting with time at my
leisure. Even if I die a horrible death somewhere my immortality
keeps me alive and the genie brings me safe to the neutral zone.
Thanks to the magic he has I can manipulate things how I want. I've
traveled to the year 30,000 and helped with peace talks with the
aliens in the shadows. Oh, but more relevant to you I've made the
Cold War go nuclear to see how it would play out. As a historian I
would see and record and study it. How fascinating. I lived through
that time line to a point and reset it to what I wanted next.
My bragging is that I am doing such a
grand experiment over thousands and eventually millions of time lines
as I live on forever. And my confession is that yes, I suppose this
is a sin I may never pay for since I will never die. If I cause pain
in a time line people will live through it. Your time line(at least
in your era) is my study of economic collapse in multiple nations and
their effect on war and its length. Grin and bear it, I am getting
some fascinating results. And if you see a girl smiling at any grim
news in the paper then it may just be me.
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