Alone in the Galaxy
I have been alive for thousands of years… I am the last of my race… there is no-one left but me.
It started almost as a dare, an exercise in manipulation if you will… we simply wanted to see if we could do it - we really didn’t mean for it to get so out of hand.
Please, you must believe me, we never meant to harm anybody…
We were young, all of us very, very smart [they used to call us ‘the Brain Trust’] and, as so many young powerful people are wont to do, we were also a bit arrogant…
Yes, I’ll admit it, we were too smart for our own good - not that it helped us in the end.
It all started as a joke - who, amongst us, could come up with the most challenging concept… and then figure out how to do it, for real.
We looked at Time Travel [you can only go forward, but not back in Time]… Inter-Dimensional Travel [yes, actually quite feasible...except you can’t find your way back here]… Bi-location [yes, you can be in two places at the same time...but one of you will be dumb, while the other remains smart - not quite worth it]… and finally I said “Well, we can achieve Immortality.”
At first they didn’t believe me, and some even said “What’s the point… You’ll just get bored after a few hundred years… Everyone you know will be dead... It gets kind of lonely…”
All very good arguments but they only stimulated me to do it… and so I did [just to prove that I could !]
It turned out quite easy actually - once I isolated the living life essence in things, I found out that simply by ingesting this Prana it had amazing healing properties.
I no longer suffered any illness, no pain, no fatigue, no mental confusion... sharp as a tack… and equally thirsty for more [and this is where the problem started].
My body began to change - at first I was just stronger, more flexible, could run for miles and didn’t get tired … it all sounded so good, I just wanted more, and so I did - the more I ingested this Pranic Energy, the more my body changed, the more I yearned for it.
Now my senses became acute, I could see equally well at night as in daytime, I could hear a conversation being whispered in the house next door, I could smell a flower blossoming over in the next field … and … it … all … became … TOO MUCH … too much noise, too much stimulation, too much chaos… all just too much …!!
But by now it was too late - my body had already changed, and developed some unique abilities…
No longer did I need to ingest this Life Essence… I could simply draw it directly into me… and if I did it correctly, I could drain this Prana... until there was no life left in the other…
And this I did …
Too many noisy birds chirping away … drain them of life
Too many flowers in bloom … drain them of life
Too many noisy neighbors … drain them of life
It was all so easy... I found out I could even drain the weather… so now no more blustering wind…no rain / hail / snow … just plain, soft sunshine … and as my powers grew, so my body changed even more… no longer physical, I was now made of pure Life Essence...pure Light… pure Consciousness …
And if I no longer had a body, what did I care if the planet was sterile - no flowers, no trees, no birds, no … other … Life … What did it matter to one such as I …
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And that brings me back to today…
For now I grow bored - there’s nothing left to do here, on this little mud-ball of a planet … I think it’s time I went for a ride and explore the Galaxies…
Surely there must be other planets I could visit… maybe try different flavors… maybe Life can once again be fun … y’know, until I get bored again…
Hey, maybe I can find … you …
