Finding Utopia

Chapter 16: Emotional Serendipity

Luz: " I need time to think about what you guys said to me, but I came here to know what you know about my parents, so please put our issues aside and tell me."

Maanaa: " You have to keep an open mind what I'm about to say might sound unbelievable, but I'm sure you won't find it as unbelievable since you met us, Anyways, we space/time travel through portals/ gates whatever you want to call them, these portals are, mainly, suctions in spacetime basically sucking space into a single point that and to then we need two people's energies or more and that's what creates a wormhole that enables us to pass through these gates, but these portals will disappear instantly, there are more advanced portals but usually, they're not fixed in one place-"

Luz *interrupts her*: " I don't see how that does have anything to do with my parents!"

Aliaan: " Be patient, I'm sure she's getting there."

Luz tuts and rolls her eyes at Aliaan's comment but then she signals for Maanaa to continue.

Maanaa: " Well, there's a fixed stargate in this house and it only takes to one place"

Luz: " Still waiting to see how that relates to you finding my parents?!"

Thiyya: " You need to hear the whole story behind this stargate and it's important for you not to get your hopes up"

Luz: " You guys are pranking me, aren't you? what's up with all this mystery? Are they dead?"

Ziri: " Calm down! We legit don't know we only have a theory about where they could be, we weren't gonna tell you till we check it for ourselves"

Maya: " Anyways, the stargate leads to Utopia a perfect place where people go to get their wishes, the rule is to make sure to set the intention to come back otherwise the place takes over you and you're basically brainwashed into thinking that's where you want to be, our parents went in and your parents didn't come back because they didn't set the intention to come back"

Marco: " Wow, Maya slow down!"

Xeelai: " She sure likes to get to the point!"

Luz: " So my parents left me to go to this perfect place and stay there forever?"

Maya: " I haven't read about your parent's journey yet, but they might have forgotten or just didn't know, we can't tell, but I'm sure my parent left a record of it, it says on the bottom of the list"

Luz: " What list?"

Ziri: " Basically there's a list of people that went in, most came out and a few didn't, that's where we saw your parents' names!"

Luz: " Can I see it?"

Xeelai: " Sure!" as he hands it to her, the friends are avoiding looking at her, as for Aliaan, he reaches for some books and starts reading, ignoring everyone around him.

Marco: " Hey Aliaan, shouldn't you be taking care of your wife, she's clearly  going through an emotional rollercoaster."

Aliaan: " My grandfather told me about this place, Utopia"

The friends gasp as they turn to him, their eyes full of curiosity.

Aliaan: " He told me unlike other places Utopia has a few fixed gates, but the place itself moves, which makes it hard to reach from anywhere other than the fixed gates, there's a myth that Utopia is a being that transcended spiritually till it became a god and that it created the gates that lead to itself, he also told me if you visit Utopia too much, you start losing pieces of yourself and at some point, you become unrecognizable and shorten your life span, it's like Utopia feeds off you"