World's Collide

Chapter 1: Earth, Eartha and Earthly

Adina's POV

Pink skies. Field of white daisies. Mountains in the far off background and yet you can still see their struggle. If you listen carefully you can even hear the wind carry their sorrows across all terrains. Not what they once were, they looked broken and skew, fallen peaks, cracks covering their slopes. They almost looked as if they weren't solid at all, a total opposite to the pictures I saw in geography books. Books that told their story and praised their grandeur. I do wish I saw them in their original glory and yet I can't deny the fact that their broken beauty was part of the reason I felt so free and lifted in this daisy field. Part of the reason I could call this place my sanctuary. Maybe it's true what my grandmother used to say 'There is a beauty to broken things. A type of beauty only visible to eyes willing to see'. She taught me to enjoy the beauty in everything, no matter how simple and broken it may seem to the world.

I blink a couple of times because a pure white butterfly flutters quickly past my eyes. A rare sight. They say butterflies used to be creatures of colour that danced in the wind in patterns matching those that spread across their wings. Now, on the rare occasion that you do see one, they are either pure white or a deep black. 

The world is no doubt a changed place. Some see it as bad, and yearn for what the world use to be. Others look to the future, wishing and willing to try to do something that could return the world to it's previous glory. And then you get the few people like me, just living in the present, accepting the world as it is, seeing its undercover beauty and trying to do right by it. 

I wonder what it must have been like to be alive when Worlds Collide started. Were people anxious and afraid when Earth started to shake on its axis? Were they ignorant and neutral, thinking it was just an earthquake? What did scientists do when they figured out that Earth had two identical sisters on either of the sides? Did they want to know more about how the sisters hid so long? How did they figure out the sisters used the Mirror Effect?

Ah, the Mirror Effect. My favorite part of learning about the World before. Earth was surrounded by bright and shining stars as were her neighbouring twin sisters, Eartha and Earthly. Their stars shone so bright they reflected off one another, thus creating an illusion to men living on their lands that they each were the only ones in vast space. 

But illusions end, that much is clear. Hence, the dawn of World's Collide. An event in history that almost killed humankind. Each sister, Earth, Eartha and Earthly, decided after millions of years, that they needed each other, that they needed to be close to one another. So they started shaking loose from each of their axis. Then they started to head for each other. By the time people on their lands realised what was happening, it was too late. They crashed into one another. A crash that shook the universe and certainly made a mark with it's blinding lights. No one thought there would be survivors. Humankind suppose to be doomed, and yet there were survivors and three generations later, we are striving the on new world.

Nana used to tell me this story for years and I would never get tired of hearing it. Even now that I'm grown and actually know the science behind it, I still try to think about it the way Nana described it. As sisters longing for each other, rather than a simple shift in space.

Scientifically though the world would be easiest to describe as three balls squashed together, resembling a Venn Diagram. Where the only habitable place was where the three sisters met in the center. We call in Central Point. My home. My birthplace. The heart of Planet TheeSis. The home of all Selectives.