Overlap

Chapter 93: Premonition 005

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Nothing ever felt the same when the turning and twisting segments of time flowed through my mind and body; I had no words to describe the rush of information flowing through me. Asleep I was in one place in one moment; awake I was somewhere else in some other moment. I had no time to conduct any personal thought or emotion to the environment, to a rapidly shifting world around me. All I could do was process and observe everything I saw and felt in moments most foreign to me.

Somehow, I knew I was only dreaming. Yet, I floated in discontinuous space, watching full moments of the lives of many which had not come to pass. My life flashed before my eyes. The lives of three others flashed before my eyes as well, people who I knew, yet had no ties to this far ahead into the future. Without understanding why, I came to understand that I was seeing somewhere between ten to twelve years into the future, compared to where I was before.

The fragments of video playback were realistic experiences I lived through, skipping through random segments of existence while I struggled to understand them, but in each moment, I knew exactly how I felt, be it my own body, or the body of the others who are part of this prophecy.

First, I saw myself, my own personal life lived in a wondrous winter wasteland. The external appearance of my body proved that I had aged well into this moment. However, I was standing out in the snow bank of a place I would one day call home, laughing, smiling, enjoying the time I spent hanging out with Lumina in the familiar manner of psionic telepathy. I knew I was still on Earth, but I've never looked so happy before, so full of life, so certain that everything would be okay.

I knew I was living on my own, but given all the planning I put into that part of my life, everything managed to work out. This is the future that I've desired most for Lumina, the future I desired most for myself. This is the lifestyle I want to live while on this planet, the future I hold most dear to me, my number one priority.

I didn't have long to enjoy the show, because the world soon shifted to another moment, or rather another place and subject entirely. Still around the same time of the future, I was now looking through the future of Zero, all grown up and living alone. Except, I knew she wasn't living alone when the door opened up.

Zero was enjoying some quiet time inside her own house, a house which she owned herself, some place nearby but out of the confines of Georgia. She had moved out of state as well, and built a calming life for herself here. The woman entering through her front door was not a stranger to Zero on the other hand. This tall brunette brightened Zero's eyes with purpose, lifting her spirits in ways I couldn't currently know. The stranger was happy to see Zero again, just as Zero was thrilled to see the return of her wife.

Zero apparently found somebody in life that made her truly happy, a life partner working together, living together, and owning the large expensive home together. They were both happy to be around each other, to be involved in each other's lives. The happiness reflected in Zero's expression was all powerful, warming and hypnotic. It was a kind of happiness I could understand, though aweing was it for me to witness something in a classmate I barely knew.

Before much longer, the environments shifted again, leading me to the interior of a corporate office meeting room, with the windows overlooking a huge city. The room was quite impressive, and the unknown business I was witnessing was in the process of conducting a huge corporate meeting with people in sharp suits and pie charts.

If I could have allowed myself to be shocked and beside myself in the moment, I would have, though my emotions in the moment were not for me to control. Instead, I let her sensations flow into me, proving the seriousness of what I was now seeing. Among the many who took turns standing in front of the window for a presentation, the most important came when Maddison started presenting her work in front of the board.