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"Happy Parrots latest rav, is a good one.

There is a lot I won't publish in the next edition of Coevolution for more than enough reasons and I include a small snippet from my opening lines in the next edition.

But it goes way further than that, Don't follow the light is all I can say to the prescribed dead senaro whatever you do, go the other way, do whatever it takes not to take the hand that leads you. If you do, you'll never leave this place.

Quote from the opening of my next book.

Genisis

A whisper of memory has me standing there, the trees grow tall as I watch. They rise, they fall, centuries later perhaps. Still, there I stand, the night and days fly past so fast it is never night or day, just a blur of motion, the sun just an arc in the sky. How many lives have I lived in what seems to be just a moment? Civilizations rise and fall, they are gone before becoming even vaguely familiar. Was it a thousand years, or a million?

As I recall this, it gives me a hint, my concepts of time and life need a re-write, and this story will never do justice to it, I’m sorry for that. I shy away from mirrors; a stranger always stares back at me. I can’t remember who I was to begin with, but the borrowed face is not mine, the voice not mine, the body not mine! Who am I then? Where do I belong?

Then there is that gentle tap on the shoulder, and I realize it’s time to move on. A slight stutter in the grandeur of it all, and I’m in another place, another time, in another body yet again! And the Coevolution story began in that way. One moment while driving a car, then I’m talking with Zeena. Do I know this person? Where am I? Who is she to be so familiar with me?

“Why did you take so long to collect me” I asked? “You said it would only be a moment, I remember a whole life on earth, and a thousand before that! You said hold on; you won’t be a moment. But you left me for an eternity.”

Her soft hand is on my shoulder, she spins me around, and her lips find mine, the message she sends to my head, “Anu, it has been less than a heartbeat, you were gone no longer than a blink of time. What did you see in that blink, did it bring you wisdom, was it worth the risk?”

“Risk! I don’t know who I am” I replied, “I’ve lived a thousand lifetimes since you kissed me goodbye and then hello.

It’s a trap! Don’t go there, they will never let you out. They have built a cage; we must destroy it. Look at me, I’m lost, I only remember your kiss, not who you are. Only the promise you would be waiting, I can recall that and nothing else. What went wrong? Why am I here? What was the reasoning for this? But wait, I must go back, I’m sorry, we must destroy their aberration.”,

I tried a hundred times to save the world from itself, I saved people, I saved civilizations. When I went back after my own death and said, there what more can I do? Can I leave now “they” always had another task in store for me." - Alec Newald

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