The Reverter

A Brief Moment of Peace

"How? How is any of this possible?" I asked, completely perplexed.

"It was the only way to save you," Mr Ramanujan said, "the way I understand it is that all of us have a specific period of influence."

I was even more confused. A cool breeze blew across my face as I stared at the deep blue ocean. Horns of the ships blew in the distance.

"What do you mean 'us'?" I asked.

He smiled and said, "Well, people like you and me!"

My eyes widened. Could I do what he did? He had created a dream world and rescued me from my world. Does he mean I can do that too? And there are more people like…us? Was the place I met that evil being, something like Mr Ramanujan’s dream world?

"So…what are we? What can we do? What do you mean by ‘period of influence’?"

"As I said, all living things are projections of higher dimensions. But there are some beings who can exist as lower-dimensional beings in higher dimensions using the real world as a platform. I haven't been able to figure out how, but I know this is possible since I am such a being. And these beings can exert a certain influence over the world or the specific period of time they lived in. Based on what I have experienced we can even 'see' periods beyond our lower dimensional existence. That is how I knew about your existence and of others. But I have also realized that very few of these beings are aware of the existence of others…but that has changed ever since you travelled to 2019."

My eyes widened. I couldn't believe what he was saying yet, I felt that it was true.

“Ever since I travelled back to 2019? Didn’t you go back to your own time period as well? Aren’t we here in 1917 because you travelled back in time?”

“It is not what you did, but how you did it. Every being uses the fourth-dimensional world they exist in as a way to go around places within their time period, and this is the very reason (the fact that they can only move around within the time that they lived in) that they are unaware of the existence of other beings like us. But since you travelled back in time using the concept of time crystals, it sent a message across all dimensions. You had turned the clock of the whole universe backwards!”
I stared at the sea. The realization of this all was mind-boggling. How did I do it? How was this possible?

Then another thought struck my mind.

"But if you can only exert influence in the time period of your…say, mortal existence, then how did you bring me here? Wouldn't that be impossible from your theory? And since we can only turn the whole universe backwards…or forwards..er..Using time crystals…How did you rescue me?"

"It's quite often that what you think is impossible becomes possible…for me, I knew I had to save you, so I did whatever I felt I could, I tried reaching out to your world and it worked! I don't know how, but it feels like something helped me to get you. That same something that has guided me all my life, with all my numbers and equations. It is also my theory that the ‘message’ that was sent across space-time when you reversed the state of the whole universe, might have something to do with it…but anyway, It's a shame I couldn't give out more to the world, but it seems you can! You somehow discovered a way to interact with the time crystal of the whole universe! You can save the world from…that being."

"But how?!"

I shouted a little too loud. People glared at us with suspicion.

"It's best if we go somewhere quiet, come with me," Sir Ramanujan said.

Houses passed, horse carts rode around and soon the path became less trodden as we entered a forested area. As we journeyed on, the number of houses dwindled and the sound and sightings of horse carts became even less prevalent. And before we knew it, the path we were on had transformed into a less-trodden trail that led us into a dense, forested area.