Okay, picture this: it's 5188 AD in the shimmering glass towers of Crystal City, a level 5 domain where souls hang out after Earth's total wipeout from the Great Influx, and our girl Alannah's been stuck in a time loop of boredom for fifteen years straight.

She's slinging plates at an all-night diner, her days blurring into one endless shift, until her boss Sherina basically drags her to the Visual Reconstitution Clinic because, as she puts it, "You can't afford to be stuck between tick and tock anymore." There, this seer named Maureen dives into Alannah's mind like a cosmic sketch artist, pulling out portraits that shatter her world—turns out she's from old Earth, born in 1875 California, with a mom who died too young, a stunning sister Elina everyone fought over, a spoiled little sis Brionna, and worst of all, a deadbeat dad who's none other than the legendary John of Penny Lake.

Alannah's fuming, spitting out "A famous, despicable father," as these memories flood back, revealing she died in childbirth and her baby's out there somewhere.

It's all part of this wild sci-fi setup where these perceptual bubbles like Crystal City let you manifest thoughts into hover buses and pie on demand, but without reconstitution, you're just a zombie in paradise.

Reeling from the therapy, Alannah spills it all to Sherina back at the diner, learning the big picture: these domains are pit stops between Earth lives that got permanent after the cataclysm, all-women vibes with strict privacy rules, and that great awakening fifteen years ago? Yeah, sparked by her infamous dad and his crew rediscovering Earth.

Just when she's trying to wrap her head around it, Sherina yanks her back on shift because—get this—Princess Anahere and Princess Penelope are at her booth, devouring the exact same pie and ice cream Alannah scarfed earlier.

Heart pounding, Alannah serves them anyway, clocking their tears that echo her own fresh grief, and then they drop the bomb: they know her name and whisper "John," leaving her gut-sick with the dread of what's coming.

In Gary Brandt's "For The Love of Artificial Intelligence: A New Earth," Chapter 14 on The Dimension of Mind Dot Com hits hard with themes of buried memories clawing their way out and destiny knocking when you're least ready—Alannah's unstuck now, begging time off to hunt down Elina and reclaim her life, but man, that unresolved daddy drama? It's gonna make for one heck of a family reunion in this thought-bending universe.