The next day Autumn and I wake up and freshen ourselves. We have some breakfast, change our clothes and set ourselves ready to venture...except we didn't really set ourselves. Hey, we have nothing of our stuff here, no gear or equipment, we found an axe here tho which is a good weapon but why would you want us carrying an axe in broad daylight around a jovial market area?
I did find a worn-out notepad and a pen tho. That will do for now. We can jot down important observations and draw critical sketches. I know I am getting too ahead of myself! Anyways we get out of the house and I see the most... I don't even know like I don't feel that words would do justice in describing the incredible sight I saw. (Play the OST now)
Above us, we saw the most beautiful and unusual clouds ever! The clouds were shaped like waves and the sky was pastel green in colour! It felt like the entire sky as far as we could see was an island and the clouds were the oceanic waves. Through the clouds zooming away, we saw some giant birds! They looked like ravens with wings big and wide enough to cast their shadows on us even when they were so high up in the sky! Their fur was royal purple curling back against the wind. Truly magnificent!
I had never seen something soo unusual, so awestruck in my entire life! I could never for the life of me erase this image ever!
"Wow...." I whisper, I was speechless. Autumn too couldn't move her gaze away!
"I don't believe this," she says.
People around us seemed unaffected like it was a daily occurrence in their lives!
"I would love to ride that raven," I say and then take a deep breath.
"Oh yeah, well that is not really safe" Autumn mutters nonchalantly but breathless!
Kwangya is beyond words. (Little did I know that it was just the beginning!)
I am getting really excited, I feel like shaking my hands like a crazy fan when they see their fav. kpop idol and scream! If you could see me right now, you would see the ear-splitting grin I have on my face which makes me look borderline creepy. The rush of adrenaline that I feel is unexplainable.
"Come on Autumn, let's begin the journey!" I held her hand and pulled her forward!
"K, hold on!.. Aah" She says but I don't listen. I have this sudden surge of energy, the desire to discover this world! We start looking around for clues or some museum as Autumn suggested but we couldn't find anything! We looked for a while but nothing. Tho through this course, we have understood the layout of this town. It is pretty moderate. It has a church, a community hall, multiple cafes, fun outings and a few other stuff. No tall buildings or anything but provides for most of the things!
"We can check out a library too," Autumn suggests. I turn around and grin at her.
"You are really smart! It would have been so much easier tho if we had phones. There is nothing that isn't marked on google maps!" I say
"Totally! I am really tired, to be honest. I want something cool to drink."
"Me too."
While walking, we arrive at a beautiful garden. Nothing too fancy or big but really aesthetic. Beside its entrance at the outside was some sort of machine. I could not figure out what it was or what it did. It had a screen and a keyboard. It didn't seem like a computer though. I tried to run it and hence pressed a butter on. It suddenly switched on. On the screen was a map!
"What place's map is this?" Autumn queries.
"Why do you think I know?" I reply. We press some random more buttons like a maniac and wait to see what happens. In the midst of our conversation and us figuring this machine out we hear someone's 'ahem' from behind. We turn and find an old man standing there. He was looking at us when he said
"What are you girls doing with the map printing machine?"
"Map printing?" We both say in unison.
"Why do you act like you don't know about this?" He laughs.
"You don't seem like you belong here."
"That's right. We recently..moved places." I say
"Makes sense. In those big urban cities, there is no use for these machines when you have KLEAR! "
A what? I look at Autumn in question. Guess we will have to play along.
"Yeah, you are right. It is actually my first time seeing one of these. What does it actually do?" Autumn inquires the old man.
"It prints out the map to any location you select on the screen with all the possible ways from here. The pathways are differentiated by colours. It is really convenient!"
"So it is like a GPS." I tell Autumn.
"A what?" The old man asks looking confused.
"Nothing. Um.. do you also have a KLEAR? Like having a KLEAR is also so convenient you know?" I don't even know what the hell a KLEAR is but I am just assuming it's a convenient device or something judging by his previous statement on it.
"Why, do you think an old man like me wouldn't have one? As a matter of fact, I do." He says while smiling and pulls something out of his pocket. It was a small rectangular device with a fancy cover. He shows it to us and it was a phone?
He switches it on and it looked like a normal phone with a few apps here and there. BUT then he presses a button and that phone mutated itself into a big screen tab.
"Yeah, now I can see klearly. Haha, you caught the pun? My granddaughter gifted me this. I was apprehensive and didn't really appreciate it at first cause these are really expensive but oh boy, how functional they are!"
Autumn and I looked at each other wide-eyed!
" I watch movies on it too by changing the screen size to a much bigger one and adjusting the video quality to 3D. I also like to use the hologram version, see."
He then clicks another switch presented on the side of the phone and the texts and the apps are pushed out into the air. Like how you would imagine a hologram except it was not a hologram. He tapped on one of the apps and the app opened in the air. It seemed soo AI, so futuristic! He then kept the tab down.
He then opens a video and on the bottom right corner is that wheel settings sign that you find on your YouTube videos. He tapped on video quality, except in our world where we choose between 360p, 720p and more this man was choosing between 3D,5D,7D and more. When did phones get so advanced?
"I am always entertained. Its camera quality is also super good. Gives klear pictures!" He taps on the camera icon and the screen in the air adjusts its dimensions to the old man's proportions and captures his image! He took a selfie without holding the phone in his hand. Autumn and I felt like tearing our eyes out! The old man saw our reaction and commented
"Why, do you think an old man like me wouldn't want to click pictures? Why can only you youngsters do it?" He chuckles.
"No, we are just...nothing. Anyways why is it called Klear?'' Autumn asks.
"That is because it gives klear results from search engines, takes klear photos, is klearly awesome. Tho why are you asking? I suppose you knew about these."
"Oh yeah, we do. We just always found the name funny." I say while pulling Autumn to my side.
"It is really lightweight to carry and you know what is my fav. function? When in this hologram mode you use the device, your activities can be seen by the passer-by, however, if you click on this eye icon at the top right corner...." he taps on it and the screen vanishes, it got invisible!
"it gets out of sight for others but you can still see the screen with your KLEAR spectacles that give you the klear view!" Autumn and I were just listening. We didn't know what else to do. What I thought was a normal phone turned out to be a... KLEAR! I am assuming that every KLEAR device has its unique set of KLEAR Spectacles hence only the user can see the invisible screen
Though imagine somebody texting with their friends on this invisible screen, they would look like people just weirdly moving their fingers in the air. Pfft! So stupidly crazy! Or wait imagine them watching a comedy movie or something in public and laughing. To the other people, they would seem like some creepy person laughing at absolutely nothing! Like when I imagine somebody this way now, it's hilarious! People would realize once seeing their KLEAR spectacles on but the sight would still be funny! LMAO!
Though I have to say one thing, it is KLEARLY the next level of mobile phones! Autumn and I share looks and I know we were thinking the same thing.
Having our hands on this device would aid us soooo much! But how do we get one? Tho there is something else that has also caught my attention.
That map-making machine!
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