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The Italian restaurant glows with amber light, its air rich with the scent of garlic bread and marinara. Ella, Roxana, Eileen, and Helana sit around a checkered tablecloth, their school bags tucked under chairs. Mr. Danvers, Eileenâs father, sips a glass of wine, his eyes warm but probing. The clink of cutlery and soft chatter from nearby tables create a cozy hum, but an undercurrent of purpose lingers.
âSo, Dad, why are we at our favorite place?â Eileen asks, twirling spaghetti. âWhatâs the occasion?â âIâve missed you, with all the time youâre spending at Alishaâs,â Mr. Danvers says, smiling. âBut I have another motive. The mid-century conflict the AI predictsâdo you know more about it? Has anything new come up?â Ella smirks, leaning back. âKnew it! Youâre here to pick Helanaâs brain, Mr. Detective. Go aheadâyouâll do it anyway.â Mr. Danvers raises his hands, earnest. âOnly with respect, Helana. You donât have to answer. Itâs your choice.â
âI can share some,â Helana says, her voice soft but steady. âYou wonât like it, though. You want specifics, but I only have fuzzy generalities. My being here changed everything.â âSpecifics would shift if I knew them,â Mr. Danvers says. âGeneralities work.â Helanaâs eyes widen. âYou understand temporal dynamics? Is that how you saw me when the girls couldnât?â âIâve researched this for thirty years,â he says, leaning in. âAs a teen, I saw a craftâotherworldly. It felt like they knew me, like I knew them, and Iâd see them again when the time was right. Was it your people?â âNo,â Helana says. âWe donât use craft. It couldâve been one of hundreds of species, from countless domains or timelines, even your future.â
âTell me about this great conflict,â he urges. Helana exhales, her gaze distant. âMy knowledge comes from ancient history in my timeline, millions of years in your futureâmore legend than fact. From now, consciousness grows. Hunger and war lessen; nations cooperate. Itâs an awakening, a new prosperity sparking a baby boom, pushing the population toward twelve billion. But by mid-century, the awakening falters. Kindness fades; religionâs truths fall out of fashion. Earthâs changesâunstable weather, an erratic sunâbreed anxiety. Doom dominates culture. Fights erupt over scarce resources, but mostly, old men cling to power diluted by expanded consciousness. They ignite war to reclaim it.â
She glances at her friends. âThese three girls are key. Roxana becomes a preacher, uniting religious factions to resist rulersâ divisive tactics. Eileen works in government, countering warmongering. Ella builds banksâseed, technology, data, toolâto rebuild quickly if culture collapses. A solar cell and smartphone can store vast knowledge, like a mobile encyclopedia.â Helanaâs voice drops. âStill, nearly 95 percent of life is wiped out. Humanity shrinks to scattered enclaves. Coastal civilizations vanish. Without these girls, humanity mightâve perished.â
âThese three,â Mr. Danvers says, âbut now there are four.â âYes,â Helana says. âThatâs why itâs different now. Thousands will support them, and Iâm the wild card. In one timeline, I wasnât here; now I am. My mother feels ripples in the temporal fieldsâmassive changes. My past, your future, is altered. I just donât know my role. I know their strengths, but Iâm lost.â âCan your parents see whatâs changed?â he asks. âNo,â Helana says, alarmed. âViewing a timeline in flux risks catastrophe. Temporal turbulence would block them anyway.â
âAre we switching timelinesâone where you werenât here to one where you are?â he asks. Helana hesitates. âThe multiple timeline hypothesis exists, but my people believe each domain has one timeline, twisting and turning. Changes require balancing temporal, spatial, and experiential inertiaâplanet-sized energy. Something else is happening here.â âWhat kind?â he presses. âLegend says millions of years ago, level 10 entitiesâbeings one with the One Infinite Creatorârestored Earthâs life after a catastrophe. Only they can alter timelines without chaos, reshaping reality like a lucid dream. This feels like their intervention, or the Creatorâs.â âDivine intervention,â Mr. Danvers murmurs. âSomeoneâs praying,â Roxana says, half-smiling. âI pray constantly now,â he says. âIâve started,â Ella says. âNot religious nonsense, but to whatever made this place, just in case.â
âDo my girls survive?â Mr. Danvers asks, his voice tight. âIâll be old, likely gone. Youâll be in your fortiesâtoo young to die.â âThey survive,â Helana says, âand rebuild, so by the 22nd century, over a billion humans thrive again. Their influence and connections likely protect you too. Youâll be in your seventies or eighties, probably alive. With me here, Iâll ensure it.â âWhat about Earthâs destruction?â he asks. âYou mentioned all life dying.â âItâs legend,â Helana says. âEarly 22nd century, something odd happenedâa solar mini-nova, a black hole, a cosmic jet? It seemed to start on Earth, spreading faster than light across the solar system.â
âHow?â Ella asks, frowning. âMy teachersâ hypothesis,â Helana says, âinvolves a multi-planet communication system using scalar wave technology, near-instantaneous even to Neptuneâs moons. It interacted disastrously with cellular processes. Each cell contains analog, digital, and quantum processors in membranes and microtubules. Something shut them off, killing all life instantlyâexcept some viruses. Underground bases, Moon and Mars colonies, gone in seconds.â
âYou said life was replaced?â Mr. Danvers asks. âYes,â Helana says. âDNA is multidimensional, bending light from your dense domain to lighter ones, like mine. You exist in multiple domains unknowingly. When your dense body died, lighter versions persisted, drawing energy from the collective soul. Earthâs people awoke in Level 5 domainsâmine, othersâforgetting Earth due to consciousness filters, preventing cross-domain contamination. After 3,000 years, their memories returned. With help from other levels, groups repopulated Earth using technology like what brought me here. Plants, animals returned after 12,000â13,000 years of desolation. Some stayed in Level 5; Iâm their descendant. Youâre my ancestorsâIâm of Earth.â
âWhatâs Earth like in your time?â he asks. âOur Level 5 domain diverged from Earth,â Helana says. âOur human DNA remains, so I look like you, but Earthâs evolved differently. The sunâs unstable, lifeâs underground or underwater. Humansâor their descendantsâare scattered across galaxies. Earth fulfilled her role as lifeâs cradle, but sheâs fading.â âMillions of years?â he asks. âRoughly 500 million,â Helana says, âbut weâre not temporally locked with Earth. Could be 200 million or a billion. There were plans for solar sails and anti-graviton tech to move Earth from the dying sun, but itâs a delay, not a fix.â
âYou sound like an old scientist, not a 14-year-old,â Mr. Danvers says, awed. âJust repeating my teachers,â Helana says, blushing. âBut itâs harder to remember. Acclimating to this domain, Iâm forgetting my past. Consciousness filters are making me another Earth girl. I hope I donât lose everything.â âLike kids with past-life memories that fade,â he says. âI have questions about that, but another time.â âYou wonât forget,â Ella says fiercely. âI wonât let you. Night school will keep it fresh.â âIâm having an identity crisis,â Helana admits. âThanks, Ella. Donât let me forget.â
At the Danversâ house, the living room is warm with the scent of chamomile tea. Mrs. Danvers, in a cozy sweater, greets the girls as they pile in, their overnight bags slung over shoulders. âGlad to have you, giving Alisha a break,â she says. âI hope my daughters come home soon. Whatever kept you away is gone now.â âThanks, Mrs. Danvers,â Ella says. âWe appreciate it.â âHospitality?â Mrs. Danvers laughs. âYouâve lived here as much as anywhere. Youâre all my girls. Roxana, bunk with Eileen. Ella, take Helanaâs room.â
In Helanaâs room, fairy lights cast a soft glow. Ella sets up her book light as Helana fluffs pillows. âDark or night light?â Helana asks. âBook lightâs enough, so darkâs fine,â Ella says, climbing into bed. âElla, can I ask something?â Helana says, hesitant. âYou just did,â Ella teases. âWhatâs up?â âWhich boys at school do you like? I donât want us crushing on the same one. Itâd be weird, since weâre like twins.â âNone of them,â Ella says. âPick whoever you want.â âReally?â Helana says, surprised. âDo you like girls?â âGod, no!â Ella laughs. âGirls annoy meâexcept you three. I love my girls.â
âIâm confused,â Helana says. âNo relationships?â âSomeday, maybe,â Ella says. âIâm too busy. I want to ace high school, night school, college, get a degree, job, house, car. If any great guys are left, Iâll think about it.â âDonât you dream about love, marriage, kids?â Helana asks. âI canât imagine dating, let alone marriage,â Ella says. âI dream about it sometimes, but I shelve those thoughts. If your predictions are even half-true, I wonât have time for that. You girls are my familyâI donât need more.â
âI hope I didnât ruin your future,â Helana says, tearing up. âI saw you as a happy wife.â âDonât worry,â Ella says, softening. âI wanted to be a stay-at-home mom like mine, but Iâm rethinking that. Not because of your predictionsâIâm not sure theyâre real. They might be imagination. Iâm facing the future with no expectations, no imaginary timeline. You shouldnât either. Letâs take it one day at a time.â
âIâm scared,â Helana admits. âIâve seen your futures, Roxanaâs, Eileenâs, but not mine. I donât know what Iâm supposed to do or become.â âForget âsupposed,ââ Ella says. âBe your best self every day. None of us know our future, and like you said, seeing it changes it. Youâre alive on a messed-up, beautiful planet. Enjoy it.â âOkay,â Helana says, exhaling. âIâll enjoy being alive and let the future come. But I dream about relationshipsâconstantly now.â âThatâs hormones,â Ella says. âThey want you to bolt, grab the first guy who smiles, and pop out babies. Thatâs a future-killer. Work on controlling it.â
âWill you help me?â Helana asks. âAlways,â Ella says. âI love you more than anything, twin. When you date, Iâll help. If he hurts you, heâs toast.â âDonât hurt him if I love him,â Helana says, smiling. âPick a good one, then,â Ella says. âIâm protective, if you havenât noticed.â âI noticed,â Helana says. âI love you more than anything too. Thanks for protecting me.â
In Ellaâs quiet bedroom, the clock ticks past midnight. Helanaâs soft breathing fills the air as Ella opens her diary, her thoughts swirling.
Dear Diary,
Iâm skeptical about this future stuff. I love Helana, but 500 million years back? Probably made up. Weâre real, but wars, us saving the world? I donât feel it. Weâll see. Mr. Danvers eats this up like candy. Without his oath, heâd be blogging UFO nuts, whistleblowing about Earthâs doom. Dumb.
Iâm glad Iâm with Helana tonight. I missed her so much. Whoâd predict her in my life? I donât care if she erased my futureâas long as sheâs in it, Iâm happy. Sheâs asleep, breathing softly. This is my dream.
Goodnight, Diary.
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