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He was a scientist. Was he the most skilled one? He was probably a person whose peculiar features made him unpopular. He was also a solitary man. He spent a lot of time in his laboratory. That’s what folks believed. And that’s what he wanted them to believe.

Maybe a hunter. Looking for people and secrets, in a new, apparently weird way. He observed the sky with a telescope, and bacteria with a microscope, treating both categories as powerful detectors. Still, his researches focused on very practical day-to-day matters.

First, a flashback. Eons ago, from one side of the Universe to the other one, a communication between entities was taking place. They definitely weren’t humans. Superior creatures belonging to two different species, highly intelligent, something that a human would compare to divinities.“I received the shipment with the results of your experiments”. “What’s the result? I just sent it to you but cannot see the final result, but you can.” Different times existed inside the Universe, and, despite they lived in two different places and times, they were able to communicate. We could say that one species lived in the past, the other in the future. The receivers were really able to see the results, because they already had them. Actually, the sender performed experiments for many other species in the Universe. The receivers were complaining. “We do see the result. But something wasn’t really successful. The shipment was influenced by the radiations coming from many different places in the Universe. “They” devolved excessively. Moreover, someone among them would feel about our existence during the travel. It was dangerous for their mission. We didn’t want anyone among them to mention us. But that happened anyway.”.

I forgot the name of the species we’re referring to: they usually called themselves humans and referred to the ship as “the World”. It travels inside a galaxy that in turn travels among galaxies, wandering around the Universe, but not drifting. Its inhabitants are not aware they’re moving on a giant means of transportation suitable for sustaining their lives, and that many other species already boarded it and got off from it, in past eons. The scope of “the World” was transporting species.

What the scientist was looking for was the answer to a “simple” question: “where are we now?”. Of course, he lived in the World.

Welcome to the beginning of my story.

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