Anabella
I suddenly opened my eyes and Rox was next to me, looking at me with his blue lights and I jerked.
"Jesus!" I uttered out loud.
"No. My name is Rox," the robot responded. His ignorance of the colloquial expression was appealingly humorous to me, but I ignored my instinct to laugh and I smiled instead. The veils of lights were gone and I was no longer strapped in them so, I sat up and brushed my hair back with my fingers.
"We have arrived and are now in the planet Sha," Rox said.
"Already?" I asked. I wondered what time it was.
"What time is it?" I asked.
"Time? Oh, you mean your human time?" He asked and then he was quiet. I stared at him blank faced waiting for a response, but when I felt that the silence had become quite awkward I insisted on having my question answered.
"Rox? What time?" I asked.
"It is 4:07am," Rox answered. It was four o'clock in the morning?
"So, I've been sleeping for fifteen hours?" I asked.
"No, not according to your Earth time."
"What do you mean? You said I've been asleep for fifteen hours?"
"You have been sleeping for twenty-four months and fifteen hours. As for your Earth time you have been asleep for twenty-two thousand, sixteen hundred and thirty-five light years to be precise."
"What?" I asked shocked. Had I heard correctly. No it had to be a mistake. I've been asleep for how long? I didn't understand.
Click, click, click
"Excuse me," Rox said, but it was still a shock to me and I could hardly speak. Rox went in silent mode again, but I was still so surprised that I just really couldn't talk right away anyway. Was he serious or was he messing with me? Two years, but then twenty-two thousand and how many light years? This had to be a mistake. I had to be dreaming or I didn't know what was going on. Maybe I had been drugged with something and now I was hallucinating all of this. Oh for the love of God if this is so, please wake me up!
"Prince Brok has already left the ship and is currently working on the planet's political strategies, nothing that really concerns us now, but he has instructed me to take you into the castle. There he will meet with you after he has dealt with his political agenda," Rox said as my thoughts still swirled in my mind.
"Anabella, did you hear me? He will meet you after he has dealt with his political agenda," Rox repeated to me.
"Political agenda? Why would he even want to meet with me? I thought I was his slave?"
"He has changed his mind about your condition of slavery and has determined instead accept you into his guest."
"A kidnapped guest? Wonderful," I said sarcastically, but Rox obviously didn't get my humor.
"I am glad to see that you have adjusted to your new condition. Now, shall we move forward? Surely, you would like a meal and maybe a tour around the castle?" Rox suggested.
"I'm really not that hungry," I said. My stomach grumbled, but my attitude didn't agree with my physical needs. If this was my new reality I just wanted to sleep forever and I never wake up again.
"Rox, when you talk about the time that's passed on Earth, you know, when you said that twenty-two thousand something years have passed, but then only two years what does all of that mean?" I asked. I knew it was a dumb question, but I thought that maybe I didn't understand right or I'd get a "got ya" reply.
"Oh, yes. This is called a Perceptual Space Travelling Time Clocking Measurement of Duality Movement." I was still puzzled. What the hell did that mean? I frowned confused.
"Which means?"
"It means that we perceived our trip from one galaxy into the next with a time frame of twenty-four months and fifteen hours because of motion. While your planet Earth sits still within the parameters of the speed of light, our ship is in motion towards thirty times the speed of light, we call it the Speed of Alakon. The speed of Alakon is a combination of string travel and universal worm holes that carry us into enormous quantities of speed."
"I never felt anything," I mumbled.
"You are not meant to feel anything this is why you were set to sleep. Your human body isn't meant for such speeds. The lights that held your body to the bed are called Nano Travel Trips which are used for species that have a weaker bone and muscle structure. The Nanos enter through your pores and run all over your blood system and target your brain cells. They maintain your body stable as our ship flies intense velocities."
"Do Sha people use it too?"
"No. Their body can handle the speed and their brains would reject any sort of implant."
"Then why have them?" I wondered
"Because Prince Brok has conquered other lifeforms Anabella. Now shall we leave?" Rox asked. I was still shocked by all of the information I had just received and I wasn't really sure if I had understood everything, but I nodded him and followed him out of my room. The corridors were the same and the purple mist on the floor remained. As we passed the ship I saw strange markings and symbols appear digitally on the walls. I also saw very strange creatures, one looked like a bird with the head of a dinosaur and legs as wobbly as a snakes' body. I didn't know how that thing, whatever it was could stand tall, but it did. Strange flowers appeared with petals that looked like inverted triangles and long rectangles. I didn't know if they were really purple since the lights lit all of these things in purple.
"Rox, what are those things? On the walls?" I asked pointing towards one of the flowers. Rox tilted to look at the direction where I was pointing.
"Those are Stumnikai, from the planet Katksilt. It is a wonderful world created with geometrical shapes and mathematical representations. This is only the perception of how the Sha can best illustrate that world, since it is in the fourth dimension. The Sha are still studying them, but they are very difficult to understand. Come along Anabella. I must take you to the castle," Rox said. I passed by the halls left and right and then stopped when I saw the rose again.
"That's a rose," I recognized.
"Yes. That is pertinent of your world. Would you like me to grab it for you?" Rox asked and I frowned.
"How would you do that?" I wondered.
"I forgot that two years have passed and that you have forgotten that we can re-create matter. Give me a moment," Rox said. He passed by me and stood in front of the wall and pressed the wall. Digital buttons with symbols appeared and he pressed them. Then he placed his hand on the wall and grabbed the rose. I was shocked. The rose wasn't purple, it was red and it had a green stem with thorns.
"Here," Rox said with the flower in his hand. I grabbed it, but I pinched myself with a thorn.
"Ouch," I mumbled.
"Be careful. They have thorns."
"I know. Why was it on the wall though?" I asked curious.
"Well, because when I showed it to the Prince he was amazed by it and immediately ordered to have it filed in our ship's file banks."
"Well, it doesn't surprise me that he loves roses. Most people find them to be incredibly beautiful," I said.
"Yes, the prince thought that the thorns are its major attribute," Rox said. I frowned and stared at the rose for a moment. How could its thorns be its major attribute? It made no sense to me, but then I remembered that the prince wasn't from my world and that his standards for beauty wouldn't necessarily be Earth-like. I was in so much trouble and suddenly I felt afraid. Why was I now considered a guest and not a slave? Did slavery even mean the same thing as in Earth-like terms? I didn't know if there was a God out there, but if there was I only hoped that he remembered that I was here on a spaceship.
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