Dew Platt

He felt a psychosomatic rush of emptiness before he spoke. __ince we are getting to the real point, I am not stupid John. And it would be foolish to think me ignorant. Isn__ this about the Science Nation interview? Isn__ this because I mistakenly used the word __oul?_ Isn__ this about you and the others thinking somewhere along the lines, I had gained an imaginary soul? We all know when you gain a soul, you lose a mind. Don__ we john?_ John hesitated briefly staring at Roma. __ believe so yes. Souls are luxuries for speculative minds. Real scientists can__ afford such luxuries. They have the world to save.__oma narrowed his eyes. __r destroy.

They knew where they were headed but they didn__ know where they were going. Retina shrugged the thought. Roma complained about the possibility they were walking into a trap. After all, he was one of the scientists that decided Solstice__ fate. Retina was adamant no one knew him. Lorenzo didn__ care about anything much but reaching Zharfar after Retina surgically removed his Unicell Groper. They were headed to Africa in what seemed a semi commercial private plane. Eight people including the pilots travelled. They weren__ supposed to know any more particulars. But Lorenzo__ watch placed the coordinates in both numbers and words. They were in West Africa, country Nigeria, state Osun, and township Isura. None of them had ever heard of it, the town, but they were there. And they had travelled for miles, over highly forested nonresidential areas and mountain peaks before they stopped. Wherever they were going was greatly isolated, Roma thought.

With biting solemnity he spoke. __hat are you holding on to as Mara? Why are you holding on to what does not exist and was once known? Why not let her be dusts to the winds of Teracia, insignificant in the eyes of what Atheists believe?_ Teracia was home to the American Spiritualist headquarters and a very large expanse of forestry. Roma, to keep Mara__ last wishes had visited Teracia, against his Atheist believes, to spread her ashes so her soul may roam free. What soared through Roma was more sadness than anger in the moment. But the anger was enough to push him head first into Retina. __ow dare you? You stupid son of a bitch_Ahh!_ The force that took Roma forward took them over the compliant material that was the railing and they became subject to gravity. The impact resisting, antigravity flooring broke the majority of their fall. And as Roma traveled the approximately fifteen inches resistance flight back in the air, ____l kill you,_ he told Retina. While Retina was silently thanking Dr. Hunter, a QueXtgen scientist who had just saved their lives without knowing it, for the scientific design of the house, ____l kill you_ Roma said as his body touched the floor, before losing consciousness.

Yeye shifted in her seat as Roma stared down at her angrily. __here are inter-realm laws I must abide by, that the soul must abide by as well when it comes to an appointed manifestation. Whoever was in the world before can not go into the new world. That identity must be forsaken. It must____orsaken or forgotten?_ Roma barked. __orsaken,_ Yeye answered. __nless you__e putting this soul into a blank state like that of a child, it can not be forgotten. It has to be forsaken. That__ the rule or you get no soul._ __o you__e telling me that this soul will remember but will never be able to be that person it was?_ Roma asked. ____ telling you a new memory must be formed with absolutely no reference to the previous._ __hat the freak is that?_ Roma asked, visibly agitated. __ou can form new memories while holding on to preexisting ones._ Yeye stood. __es Roma, you__e right. But you can also form new memories while you are unable to access the previous ones._ __uch it would have a drive that belongs to it but would never be able to access or be forbidden to access it?_ Roma asked. Yeye__ voice was low. ____ afraid that__ the way it is going to have to be._ Roma shook his head vehemently. __xactly which way is that Yeye. Exactly which way is that in common terms?_ Yeye spoke in her most resolute tone yet. __ou will never be able to know whether or not this soul is Mara._ Roma gained silence, breathing in and out rapidly. __e__e getting out of this damned Zharfar,_ he said as he stormed out.