The Earthly Queen: The Woman of Worlds Apart

Chapter 25: Eris

The next day in the middle of breakfast Cerulean lets out a loud squeal of delight causing me to spill a chalice of hot pink chunky goo of some unknown space fruit's interior down the front of myself. As a nearby splice runs a hand held cleanser over me Cerulean explains herself.

"Eris, good news! The council just informed me that Kris is no longer a threat! After much deliberation he finally agreed to call off his warships and return to his planet without a fight!"

"That's great! What does that mean for me?"

"Entitlement, at long last!"

I have gone from somewhat stable to complete panic. What does all this entail? Where will we be going? Am I going to be tested? Is this going to be painful? Is it long? Is it short? Is it easy, hard, what?!

Cerulean keeps trying to chat me up and make me feel more at ease but only ends up making me more frustrated. I politely ask her to leave me alone and she respects my wishes.

Zander has agreed to take me to the Hall of Entitlement where all of this is supposed to go down. It's going to be a several day operation. His Coadjutor, Clique, and Flynn (there to stand in for Cerulean who isn't going with) will be going with us to help with my Entitlement. The only comfort I have is that Caine will be accompanying us as my bodyguard; despite Kris supposedly no longer being a threat we aren't willing to take any chances.

Space travel is honestly an interesting ordeal. I sit outside the wide windows of the ship's main lobbies and watch lines of different models of spaceships go by. It's the equivalent of watching a fish tank for me. I just sit and observe for hours without becoming bored until we arrive at our destination.

I sometimes feel that, at this point, I've seen so much weird shit that nothing can amaze me anymore. Then something like this happens. My jaw drops as we approach. Zander smiles from my awe and says, "Welcome to Genesis, Eris; the birthplace of humanity as we know it!"

The whole planet is a giant sphere of pure technology. Enormous continent sized machines that cover the land and fill the seas, separating them into itsy bitsy sections.

Structures protrude from Genesis' surface outwards through the atmosphere into space; buildings of bizzare size that seem to have been built around smaller buildings like a tree growing around a fence. It all looks so haphazard.

The buildings all have a spider web of clear hamster maze looking tunnels that contain roads for hovercraft. Out in space connected to these tunnels are giant bubbles holding entire cities and suburbs all spread around into different districts. There are parks and forests and shallow seas all separated into different bubbles one can go to via the connecting tunnels.

Further out, unconnected to the massive technological mass, are free floating businesses and ins and Space Liners that all sit still in Genesis' orbit.

As we enter the atmosphere I really get a sense for just how overcrowded the whole planet really is. Everything is crammed on top of and into itself in a gigantic urban jenga mass. Trillions and trillions of people go on their way like ants in a frenzied hive. How anyone can live this way is beyond me.

We leave the Commonwealth districts and enter the Entitled districts. Apparently the Entitled hold a good half of the entire planet; the birthplace of them and their culture so many quadrillion years ago. Everything here is more open and spread out with more thought put into a sensible layout and visual beauty. It also seems to contain the last few scraps of actual flora and fauna the planet was once abundant with.

The ship finally comes to a stop at a hulking glass dome shaped building; the Hall of Entitlement. It's probably the most architecturally and artistically overblown building of any in this district.