My name is Mobbo and I'm nothing but a human with a brain made from the latest polymer. I don't know why I'm here. I don't know who my mother was. I don't know my father but I know her.
She came into my world when I was wandering through the street, a barren street, along the fringe of the city that once had a name but is now nameless and meaningless to me.
That day she saw me in a jallabiya walking toward the stream to drown in it and forget about my life. I was told many things before and those things keep hunting me. They broke my back each time I tried to get my mind away from them. They made me cry and I only want to die.
I walked towards the stream. I don't know what I was thinking but I found her there. The light fell on her exposing her curves and my head registered one thing. I have forgotten. It was like it was telling me not to die. The light fell on her and I walked towards her not knowing what I was doing.
She smiled at me and a leaf dropped into the water. I saw the low ripple form. I saw her smile in it but I don't know how to process it. I was an only child that never got to see someone smile.
I entered the water. She kept on smiling. The leaves started falling. A strong breeze came from the east coast moving the leaves and some doves flew out from the frangipani or Mahoney close to her. I never thought about the tree much. I might not have gotten the name right but her smile got me closer and closer I went that night.
"What are you doing here, Mobbo?" she asked. I was surprised she knew my name. I don't know her. She is too beautiful for me to have seen her kind before.
"What are you thinking?" she said. I looked into her eyes and remembered that I have to say something.
"I'm not thinking. Just lost in another realm."
"Then that's thinking. Come over here. You have dirt on your shoulder. You've been travelling right?"
"Yes," I said and walked closer to her. She is attractive everywhere and at that moment my numbed mind came back to functioning. It was like the stream flew into my head and turned into a song.
"Then come closer. Don't be scared away by what you see. Life is more than it. Come here."
I smiled and continued moving closer. She stretched out her hands. They are longer than I thought. They were behind her before while her breast giggled.
"Come closer, Mobbo. Your ancestors weren't here for long after they broke down the particle holding your universe together."
I went closer to her until I ran through her. She smiled and I tried again but the same thing happened.
"Come on, Mobbo, show me you have blood in you. Show me you are from that silly one who manipulated the universe."
At that point, I looked around me and became more conscious of what was happening. She wasn't there but her NFT was being projected to me. I slapped my head and then went towards the east to get more of the breeze.
"These things are getting smarter," I said. She smiled and disappeared from my view.