Chapter 2 Children of the Moon

Chapter 2

Children of the Moon

  “I see her, my Kia. Her are eyes drooped, wet with tears and blind to me hovering by her side.”

“I’m right here,” my words stay in my mind unheard and useless. I can’t comfort her any more than I can touch her. She twists against the wind. Her wings slice through me. There is no injury, no pain. Now I’m the specter and like a ghost, I have lost my world. I have lost my Kia. I will have her again. There is a way and I will find it.

   She is leaving now. I follow, leaving my useless shell behind. It is no longer I anyway, just scaffolding for damaged Nano bots frozen in time and purpose. They seek repair. The umbrella of my empty body slowly rises toward the moon, its birthplace; there the microscopic machines can find second life and renewed purpose, or so their makers programmed them to believe.    

  Believe, machines that believe that trust in their human designers, how like children they are, how heartbreakingly naïve’. They used me to stain them with humanity. They are not really machines anymore, but not truly human. What will become of them? Considering whom their makers are, their future is bleak, just another failed experiment to dissect and study, just like me.  

  Maybe their makers will mistake them for me.  I can hope but I cannot be sure. The Moon calls me, more to the point what lays deep within the moon; my bodies, my mortal easily killed bodies call me, no Gods in the moon only evil lying men and women controlling naive believers with entertaining lies...

  Chimera draws near. Her lush green faces smiles up at me. Our friends wait for her down there. That will give her what I cannot, a warm embrace, a gentle comforting touch, love, but not, a husband’s love.

 Her body is trembling now. Sun light glistens on her tear streaked face. I cannot dry her tears today but one day soon, I will…

   “Well that was short but a bit of a letdown,” said Ty Wilks a Helium 3 miner to his wife Milly a part time seamstress and full time Nano bot programmer.

  “I could actually feel the energy flowing through my body when the winged Demons were vaporized in Kian’s force field.” Milly replied as she tapped her V.U. patch and left the fantasy world of Chimera until the next episode was ready for public consumption.  

  “Well I was hoping for more of a battle,” Ty said as he and his wife rose from their V. U. recliners, “you know laser beams steaking from Kian’s fingertips, smoldering body parts tumbling out of the sky.”

  “And Kress and the other Brook sprites burrowing deep into the Demon’s ears and what, rotting out their brains,” replied Milly not bothering to hide her disgust.

  “Yeah, that’d be good Milly. Maybe you should transfer from bots to the Mind Movie department. I hear they are always looking for new writers with fresh storylines.”  

 “I’m so glad they gave it a happy ending. When Kian swooped down, swept Kia up in his arms and they flew off together into the sunset, I could not hold back my tears. It was so romantic.”

 “Romance is okay but the next episode should be a lot better. ‘Alien Menace, Chimera’s Last Stand’ even the title sounds great.”

 “Sounds juvenile,” Milly said though a smirk, “but we shall see.”

  “You mean live don’t you. ‘Step out of the ordinary and into infinity.”

  “You really are a big kid quoting movie blurb like that, but I still love you, you silly man.”