Stuck on Earth - ONC 2020

5. Aeon

Within moments, Spencer shared visions of his world to Hannah through his touch.

As he showed her around, he explained to her how his world worked.

"This is Aeon," Spencer began. "Since it is in another dimension, normal means of transportation couldn't get you here. Even if traveling at light speed existed, people on Earth wouldn't be able to get to my world. You could say that Aeon is a world within the strands of time."

Hannah saw a lush and colorful place filled with a great balance between its people and nature. The balance was so in sync that she saw the trees in Spencer's world talking and interacting with the people on his planet. They also weren't rooted in place either.

Hannah noticed that the trees weren't the only thing from nature that talked. Everything in Spencer's world appeared to be communicating with each other. Though Hannah could not see a face or even a physical mouth, she could hear their voices. Even the sky spoke. Hannah could hear an echo of a thousand voices relaying information about the weather patterns shifting.

"That's how I imagine voices of angels sound," Hannah said entranced.

The thing that Hannah loved seeing the most was the magic. Everything had some form of magical element or ability.

While Hannah was trying to take in every beautiful detail, her soul was growing weaker as it went into sensory overload. Spencer released her soul within seconds. Back in her room, she collapsed to the ground from the experience. Spencer helped her weakened soul reconnect with her body and left her to sleep.

*****

The next morning Hannah had so many questions she wanted to ask Spencer. While Hannah was driving her brother Isaac to his middle school on the way to her high school, she tried asking Spencer questions through her thought. He kept arguing with her to focus on the road and that they would talk when they were alone. Even though she had only known him for a day, she was already annoyed with his patronizing and smart remarks.

"What's wrong with you this morning?" Isaac asked, looking over at his sister.

"Nothing's wrong, dweeb," she snapped. "You know I'm not much of a morning person."

"Sorry, I asked. I hate these morning talk shows. Can I change the radio station?" Isaac asked, turning the tuning dial before Hannah could object. Isaac stopped at a station that was playing one of her favorite Rihanna songs. Hannah relaxed a little and started singing along with the chorus, which helped keep her mind off of Spencer and thoughts of his world.

Two songs later, Hannah pulled up to the middle school drop-off area. She gave Isaac a sincere apology for snapping and tried to lean over to give him a goodbye hug. He wouldn't allow it since he was at the age where he didn't like giving anyone in his family hugs in public. Instead, he muttered something along the lines of, "I love you! See you after school," and dashed out of the car to catch up with his friends.

Hannah made her way back onto the main road. As she was heading to school, Spencer appeared in the seat next to her. His head was bobbing to the radio.

Hannah laughed. "You know that's a commercial jingle for pest control?"

Spencer looked at her and kept bobbing his head, confidently. "It's catchy."

"Can we talk more about your world now? Please," Hannah insisted on changing the subject to the topic of interest.

"Did you like it?"

"What's not to like?" she asked rhetorically. "I want to know what it's like to live in a world where the sky and the trees talk."

"The sky, trees and everything in between can talk in your world too. You just can't hear or understand them," he stated. "You were able to hear the voices in my world because when I connected to your mind, I was able to adjust the frequency so that your hearing could match ours. Similar to how your brother turned the radio dial to get to another station," Spencer clarified.