The Third Cycle of Time-Chapter 5

From: Cheryl Baumgartner(C Baumgartner, Posted Date: May 21st, 2011

“Are you going to tell me what has you so upset?  You’ve been pacing the floor for the past hour and you were shaking like a leaf when you burst in on the meeting.” Zinn guided Adana to a chair.  “Is it about Kai?”

She nodded “In a way, yes.  You have seen Poet right?”
                “The crazy boy who hangs around the library?  What does he have to do with this?  Did he upset you?”

“No I didn’t see him today, but I know he is not crazy.  He saw the file, in the Burst of Life.  The same one I saw today.  He must have.”

“Burst of Life? Adana you never visit that section.  Selai is searching the files, there was no need for you to do so.”

“I was looking for some insight into why Kai is changing.  I called up a random file, it was not like the others.  There was no death involved in the creation of the file.”

“That’s impossible Adana, the volunteer has to die.  There is no way anyone could survive the process.” Zinn said, confused.

“I didn’t say the volunteer survived, I said there was no death involved in the creation of the file.  The volunteer was already dead when the file was created.”

“How is that possible?  The memory is recorded at the point of death.  It has been tried with the dead and the files come up blank.  What you are telling me is impossible.”

“The impossibilities continue Zinn.  The dead man this file was created from was Brunnen G.”

“So far this is the only thing you have told me that makes sense.”

“His hands are stained with human blood.  He had taken countless lives.”

“We cannot kill our own kind, Adana.  You know that.  It’s why the Dagosians look down on us and consider us weak.”

“And yet this man, this Brunnen G had killed.  But that is not the worst of it Zinn, his name was Kai.”

“Our son is not a murderer!”

“Not our son, but a child of Irina’s bloodline.”

A quiet knock on the door to Zinn’s office interrupted them.  Selai entered the room looking pale.

“I can’t find it Adana.  There’s no record of a Kai being on file.”

“I know.  I looked for it afterwards.  It doesn’t exist.  But that is what Poet saw.  Brunnis itself is doomed.  We will stop the insects and then have to abandon our home to go to this other universe where the insects will destroy us as a people.  Only a handful of our descendents will remain, scattered throughout different worlds.  We will be reduced to nothing, ghosts and shadows.  This Kai is the last of us who is of pure blood, the very last member of our race to die.”

“You say he is of Irina’s bloodline, Bann the Demented said that the line of Kai would last until the end of time.  It is the sacred bloodline and you have seen its end, you have seen the end of time.” Selai said with alarm.

“It is not the end of time Selai, time continues.  Somehow the line of Kai continues here, in this universe,  but no longer truly Brunnen G, the blood diluted by the blood of other races.

It is why the file was shown to me.  This Kai will return here to this universe.  It signals the beginning of the next rise of the insects.  I must prepare the way for his return through prophecy.  That is my destiny.”

 

 

 

Kai was dreaming again.  This time it was the man in black. 

“Who are you?” Kai asked.

“You keep asking that question when you already know the answer.  You will have your answer to it when the time comes.

“Then tell me who she is.”

“Once again, you already know.”

“Why do the two of you keep coming to me?  Are you from the Dream Zone?”

“No.”

“I don’t understand what you want from me.”

“I want nothing, she wants nothing.  There is nothing that we want from you.  This is about what is required.  You must discover that on your own.  We can only motivate you to do so.”

“Why?”

“Because it is what we are required to do.”

“You aren’t much help.”

“Motivation is help and it is what is required of us.  Discovery is required of you. We cannot tell you what you must learn on your own.  Kai will tell you all you need to know but you must open yourself to his words.  You have done this before, you must continue to do so.  All you need to know is available to you.”

Kai blinked as he became aware of his surroundings.  He had fallen asleep while reading.  He got up from the chair and placed the scroll on the desk.  He pulled on his shoes and left the house.  Although his father had spoken to Denon the answer was no.  Nothing more than Kai had expected.  It was time to take matters into his own hands he thought.

He walked onto the campus like he had every right to be there.  No one tried to stop him.  Entering the administration building, he quickly located the room where the written tests were being given.  Easing into the room he slid into an empty seat, picked up the stylus and began to write.

 

 

“It is done, The line of Dava has been established on Pordyah.  Marrin is born, her son Nix will sit on the Council of Judges.  The lines have been drawn sisters.”

“I have revealed to Adana KAI’s Burst of Life, the Prophecy concerning the 4th cycle is completed.  The message has been left for Stanley Tweedle.”

“KAI speaks in dreams to the chosen one, he is coming to accept his destiny.  The hand of destruction must be revealed to the temple now.”

“And what of the boy Poet?”

“He must not leave the soil of Brunnis, things must be revealed at their proper time.  He has seen what he should not have seen.  He must volunteer for the Burst of Life.”

The group of women known as the Time Prophet nodded their agreement.