Rey De-Heavens (English)

9.2

Rey, although he had his eyes closed, could see darkness, he could also feel his body and hear the voice of the one who spoke to him. In a moment, within all the darkness, the figure of Clara's naked body appeared speaking to him.

Clara, with innocence and much patience, continued to speak as one who was not interested in being seen without garments:

"It is believed that the world is not as we see it. It is more like a gigantic spider's web where different realities can exist in the same space. This is best manifested within us when we are inside a lucid dream, like now. It is dark, isn't it? You think you can't see anything, but it's the opposite. You are actually seeing straight into the first energy vortex through which cognitive, emotional, controlling forces of vital activities such as movement, sleep, hunger and instincts flow. You just don't know how to interpret it. This is the first vortex, known as the brain, and to denaturalize it there is a method... Only by forgetting everything you know will you be able to clean the darkness of this vortex and move on to the next one. Think that if the world is not as we know it, and things are not as we perceive them, then the brain becomes a prisoner of what it knows, remaining within the limits of what it does not... What does it mean that we are prisoners of what we know, or of what this world full of illusions has given us to know? We are different types of energy and each has tried to influence you with a fine ecosystem of interrelated purposes, influences that create and shape this darkness."

Rey took a deep breath and let go of the air he had inhaled. Questions and more questions... he couldn't help but think of Heroclades. Putting his master aside, he breathed again and again. Slowly he began to forget everything. The knowledge went away easily, for, in a way, to forget was to think of nothing. To turn off the memories and leave the mind empty. With each breath the vortex changed color. A color that was not black, but neither white nor gray. The vortex was what it looked like, an intense vertical hole, which lost its support and fell right on top of the little boy.

Rey kept his mind blank; suffocating inside the vortex, he ignored everything he saw, felt and could hear. Drowning in a sea of sadness, thoughts and pain, the little boy refused to fight adversity for the eternity that passed in a moment; still, the vortex turned black and hopelessness raised its hand to embrace the body that had forgotten all its knowledge. Suspended in loneliness and depression, he still floated without moving, seeking help or escape.

The darkness became brightness, the brightness left and brought with it a whole variety of sounds. The unbearable noise of life screamed with all its might in the boy's ears until, tired, it faded away. Darkness invaded once more and shaking what seemed to be a head, he gave himself to understand that he had lost his purpose before the white eyes that pierced everything they looked at. A body condemned to an existence void of knowledge was not a body that lived; living is a natural instinct that allows beings to move away from death. But Rey did not obey those instincts, he had no reason to if he knew nothing and had forgotten everything. Weak and vulnerable, the floating body persisted at the crossroads until it exploded into a thousand pieces.

Clara, in the voice of a worried mother amid the twilight that filled the place, said:

"Rey.... Can you hear my voice? According to your energy flow, you managed to unblock the first vortex. Return to consciousness, understand my words and try to reassemble your shattered unconscious. The next vortex is known as the cerebellum; here you will rebuild and process everything you once let go."

A drop made itself out of nothing and, leaving thousands of shockwaves, rose up until it hit something in the void. That transformed into an eye, the eye was white with the silhouette of an infinite star, it was Rey's. Another drop of dispersed knowledge came out and the second eye was created. Another drop and the eyelids were created and so on until the face of Rey was formed. The floating head elongated into a neck, then chest, arms, abdomen, pelvis and finally legs. Although the body was now complete, there was still a lot of knowledge left.