A Time for Love

Day 25

"What about my family?" I ask Rebecca, as we sit on a grassy field looking at the stars. 

"The tree-spirit made that for you" she explains. "For every subtraction in the universe, there is an equal give. What is taken from my mom was given to you."

"Is there more than one split?"

"You are a split. Technically, you are still Annie" she says. "You're just a third now of what you were. The real Annie is hunched over in Area 51."

I shudder at the thought. 

"Dead" I answer. "Do you see your mother?"

"Never. This is the first time I've gotten to spend time with my mother. Most of the time I hear her voice overhead trying to tell me what's happening. The tree-spirit uses her to make decisions about humans and extraterrestrial politics."

"You were sent to fetch me" I say. 

Rebecca nods.

"And look" she says, as a movie screen shows itself in the sky. "It's going to show us the things that have happened and are happening to your friends."

"Do you save a lot of people with the tree-spirit?" I ask.

"Lots. You'd be surprised all the people that show up and have to be rehabilitated. Like this one..."

Over the hill, a lithe African woman crosses over, wearing a big smile and sparkles studded into her midnight blue dress. 

"Marvelosa Reina - otherwise known as the Space Queen."

"I thought you were a child."

"That was the Space Queen of this universe. There are several queens of many universes. I am only one - of Universe 5." says Marvelosa.

"How many universes are out there?" I ask.

"Probably an infinite amount."

We hear running down the hall, seeing Jade and Amber walking up to the exhibit. 

"We want to be your companions" they say in front of the twins at Area 51. 

I stood shocked as Jade and Amber walk into the exhibit, their bodies immersing with the twin monsters, before disappearing completely. 

The sky begins to crack. The Space Queen seems frozen in place, while Rebecca turns to me. 

"That's your stop mama."

"Wait.. Rebecca" I say. "I don't understand anything. The monsters, the tree-spirit, the Space Queen, you..."

"You do not need to understand everything. Some things are better left unexplained" says Rebecca.

The sky cracks into a million little shards, obliterating itself into a white nothing.