PROLOGUE: THREE EYED

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Oh geez! Today also I'm late. Whether they left me, no they never left me before. I should leave soon.

I get up hurriedly and leave my tent to go hunting for my food. My friend prepares to go hunt for his family. His family members come out of their tent and stand in front of him. He kneels before them and starts to pray. This is a ritual of our world before heading out to hunt we want to kneel and pray our family including children. This is our belief. If we pray our family, we will be safe until our return to tent.

I turn and see my tent there is no one for me to pray. I don't have anyone so I go before my friend's family and kneel in front of them, this happens daily. They are like my family, but somewhere in the corner of my heart I feel lonely. We are always united. We are all belongs to one family just because we live in different tent it doesn't mean we are different. Our whole world is like a single family. We are friendly and always respect our elders. We go to hunt. Depending on the size of their family, one or two people per tent can go hunting.

Every day we hunt our food and we bring it to the shrine of our God. We keep our food in front of him and pray. We believe that our sins will be removed by this. We pray the statue of our God. We never speak in front of him because we consider it as disobedience and sin. Our God name is "WG". Our ancestors believe that he created us but how I don't know. He created our world. He created all the trees and he covered our world with mountains. Those mountains are high, it touches the clouds. He gave life to all the animals and us. According to our ancestors, he invented language for us to communicate and taught our ancestors to read and write. And we believe that he was alive in ancient period. Our ancestors told that he is a man. In our world, there is only one God.

We hunt and take our food in front of our God. After we pray, we take the food to our tent and eat. Others will share with any families that are unable to hunt. In afternoon we teach our children to hunt, preserve animal skin so that we can use it to make dress, tent and our beds. At evening we work in our farm, we cultivate vegetables and fruits for our food at night. We also plant various herbs. All of our people know about some herbs but herbalists know better than others. There is a belief our ancestors learnt this skill from our God and they have the parchments written by our God.

Oh my Gosh! What sound it is, it freaked the soul out of my body.

I come out of my tent to see what it is. I notice something falls from the sky. Entire people in the world come out of their tents. Light like something falls from sky. Elder people in our world think that as a star. They consider it as ill omen. Elders conduct a meeting to see our God's prophecy. It is in a parchment. According to our God if something falls from sky, that'll be dangerous to our world.

Next day a group of people including me go to look for the place where light fell. Near to the mountain I find something is lying down, I turn it. Oh my goodness! I startled and surprised. I might be the blessed person in the world to find our God first. He looks same like our God. He has two eyes, his hands are soft and ears are small. Also he is short. I inform to all about it. All people in our world kneel in front of our God and wait for him to open his eyes.

He opens his eyes gradually, he looks startled and terrified. I notice his face expression, it changes when he sees us and he starts to shouts. We think we done some mistake in past. So, God is not ready to see our faces. Speaking in front our God is improper. So, all we can do is kneeling in front of him. After thinking he forgives us. We direct him with signs to the place where we stay. We take him to his statue, only a slight difference from him and the statue. Our God leg is wounded so we let him alone so that he can heal himself. I wait few steps away from him for his command.

God starts to speak "Which planet is this? What sort of creatures are these? With three eyes, hands full of many horn-like thrones, fox- like ears, eight feet tall monsters. Why they consider me as God? I believe they won't hurt me, after some rest I'll search about this place. These monsters are totally different ohh.,,,,,"

Are we monsters? Why God calls us monsters? Aren't we humans? Like everyone we too have three eyes, sharp ears, hands full of many thrones, 8 feet tall. How are we different from others? God only looks different from us. With two eyes, small ears, soft hands, shorter than us. God is aware of everything, so nothing to worry. He is in rest for a whole day. Morning we go to hunt. Afternoon he goes alone to see our world. He asks us to leave him alone.

He walks around the place but can't find anything apart from trees and mountain. He returns again to our place because he wants to learn more about the monsters (us) and the place. He comes to me and asks me about our history. I shouldn't speak in front of my God. I stand quietly. "Do you know my language? Can you speak? Is this Earth?" he asks me angrily. I kneel before him and say "God forgive". Did I make my God angry? I think in my mind. How can you say "God forgive" without speaking?" You can understand my language right, so you can speak as well. Speak something. I explain to him by sign that we shouldn't speak in front of our God. He orders me to speak and promises me that he won't tell about this to anyone. I start to tell what I know.

Our world was created before 400 years. A person can live for 150 years. I tell about our rituals, how our people support and love others. We are all united. Now the total population is sixty. But God couldn't find what he wants. I take him to the place where our God lived and created our ancestors when he was alive. It is a building built with a different type of stone, the place has high security. I heard this from an old grandfather of my friend. No one knows to open it but our God did it easily. I leave him alone.

He walks around the place. It is a research lab. He opens another door and astonished by see it. There are lots of human and animal fetuses preserved in glass bottles, many DNA samples are there. In another room he finds bio bag artificial womb. "I think someone created Ectogenesis babies here", he says. His eyeballs might come out in shock. He sees a small room and he enters into it and starts to search. He finds many files and starts to read it. He comes to know what happened in 2005 before 400 years.

A scientist named William Gilbert works hard for his research. His research is to make humans strong and live long. He combines many genes, insert it in fetus of human and created new babies. Before he tries this in human he tried it in animals. His results are positive. The children are normal. "Hurrah! I made it." But problem arises after five years. Animals and children turned into monsters physically but their hearts are pure. There is no one in the lab apart from Gilbert. The place is isolated surrounded by mountains. This research is secret apart from scientist only his two sponsors know about it. When his sponsors come to know about their transformation they order him to kill the children. When he inform about their IQ, they order him to take brain samples and kill them. After two days they accept not to kill the children and asks him to take them to their place.

Gilbert knows that they'll kill them after taking samples. So, he takes a decision to save them. He wants the children to live a life of Stone Age people so no one can find them or communicate with them. Before this he killed his sponsors because no one should know about his research. He created ten children. He teaches them to read, speak, hunt and survive. After his death, they consider them as God and start to live the same life as he taught to them.

He couldn't believe what he reads but comes to know that they are also human and why they consider him as God because he is a normal human. From the files he comes to know about the place and way to escape.

After he returns to the shrine, he goes to escape pod. He takes the communication box and moves near to mountains, he finds a cave and enters into it. He comes out another side of the cave and finds a sea shore. He tries to connect to the space research station and gets signal. He explains all the things which happened here. People in the research station ask him to wait there and they ask him to take one of the monsters for experiment, he agrees for it.

He returns back to our place. He thinks for long time and calls all people. He starts to speak "It's time for me to go. I'll watch you from sky. Live a happy life." It may be common human words for him but for us it is the words of God. We try to stop him but he is strong in his decision. Before he leaves, he goes to the lab and destroys all the research.

He comes out of the cave and waits for someone to save him. He doesn't take any monsters with him.He values the decision of the scientist. He doesn't want to spoil their happylife. He thinks that they are leading human life while we are leading a mechanical life

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