They didn't believe me until I started shouting her name so everyone would remember her.
The days passed. She was at my house. For reasons of spare parts and security, the museum only opened its doors today. Each and every one of those days I had situations in my head that I didn't know about. It was like my brain wanted to break out and create a new life.
And the days passed, and my mind became clearer and clearer. The days passed. At work, there was no hint of anything about me. The upstart of each place broke my sensations and increased anxiety. The Hades room was being repaired because the last floors were missing, but we could now return.
And one day everything started to spin in my head. It was a day when I woke up among so many with the same dreams as always.
That day I was experiencing devastating fatigue. My head was spinning with dizziness non-stop. I couldn't believe all the memories my head had. A woman. Yes, she was a woman with red eyes of medium height and long hair, and her name was Gaia. But why?
At first I tried to ignore it, but the thoughts that entered my mind became more and more acute. I related that dreamlike event, and without remedy I gave up. By preparing breakfast every day, I discerned that I had acquired a new way of being able to perform such acrobatics in cutting bread and toasting it. Then the way he prepared the coffee. Was a
so much different. I always took it with two tablespoons of sugar, but it also had sweeteners in very small sachets. Tea of all flavors. English Brown Tea, Green Tea, Chamomile Tea, Tropical Fruit Tea, Faraway Bush Tea. And so I could count to infinity. In my quick-freezing refrigerator, pieces of meat that I was never lucky enough to try. The house was neat. He had some belongings that he didn't remember owning. Among them a very feminine pillow. Well I guess it was part of my life. I always forget everything, and they forget me like the anonymous person that I am. When I left my house, that cat was hovering around and approached me only to pass between my legs and then run away like any feline that is only looking for a caress. He is a cat who maintains an air of spectator of my home. Every night I have seen him come and perch between the window as if he wanted to talk to someone. Although I have some images, they are blurry. As I opened my wallet to take out my bus card, I could see that I had a photo at an amusement park. What were you doing in an amusement park? I was there alone, and something in my mind gave me some indication. In that image I was enjoying the landscape. Behind me a large sphere like a planet and inside it what looked like the earth. On the sides a succession of small stars. It was like a large poster as part of a wall, on which we were leaning. Moment!! How were we supported? It was just a bad plural expression, ignoring a singular. The photo is pretty perfect, now that I look at it closely. All his strokes are special. I'm like I'm cornered by a person, looking up. It must be foolish of me to think like that. I have never looked good in the photos that have been taken of me. I seem nervous, and like I have a natural straitjacket. I'm a disaster in that sense.
When going for a walk it was like people coming and going. Many in pairs. I wonder if that would be something normal for me who was always alone. A couple with their shopping bags. Another indication that generated a dynamite boleo
mental. When I arrived at work, the same employees as always. I prepared myself for the Hades room, and that's when I fainted. It was immediately. I entered the entire room walking, and I went to the main corridor and then that effigy. Yes, that effigy traumatized my psyche. As I stared at myself, the vision penetrated my retinas as if wanting to devour me, and I left there scared. Behind me, the figure of a silhouette was drawn throughout the corridor, and that was when I fell to the ground. Something wanted to grab my foot, and I started kicking it without success, until it threw itself on top of my body and I fainted. The last thing I could see were all the figures, and Jupiter from afar next to the woman looking at me, and a large figure in silhouette was going to approach me
- Gaia, what are you doing here?
-Danna! He comes to see you at your work.
- That makes me very happy.
- Yes, I thought you needed help. I couldn't leave you alone, but you know I'm so sorry.
- Because?
- Because I promised something important and I couldn't keep it.
- Gaia!!
He came to, and was in the infirmary.
- He's already woken up! – Origima said. -
- Goodness! What happened to you? – Erwin asked. -
As I sat up in bed, I touched my forehead with my hand, massaging it. He had a bruise from the fall.
- It seems like it was lipothymia, and you fainted, Jupiter. You should be more careful if you don't feel well!
- You were shouting a name: Gaia! Is it some girl? Heh! Heh! - Ask
Erwin with some laughter.
- Huh??
- Why don't you go home and rest? Take two days – This is what my boss told me in the medical report.
My boss came immediately, since it was a weekday. The entire sector was quiet. Intense activities would begin after two weeks. Rigel did not object.
- Eat well next time! – Rigel said with a bit of seriousness. –To be an old resident of one of the neighboring buildings who is single, you should take better care of yourself-
- I was single?
- Can you go alone Jupiter?
On my way back home, I passed by the shopping center. There was a lady there dressed as an anime cartoon character, that lady seemed familiar to me. She looked at me and didn't say anything about it. Without noticing her I passed right in front of her. And she quietly expressed it to me.
"Her time with her was worth everything. Keep searching. "Nothing is a lie"
When I turned around the lady was no longer there. It was as if he had imagined her. Then when I arrived on the road to my home, I crossed the square. The blessed square. The sky began to cloud, and fearing rain, I quickened my pace. I began to feel the wind blowing, and the first drops fell pink in my eyes, which in the blink of an eye were facing a woman with wild red hair and red eyes and a statue. Then I closed them again and when I opened it, only the statue was there. Little by little I got closer, and that bust did not take his gaze away from what I am. It was like he wanted to tell me something. Something very important.
- Don't cry Gaia!
- I am here with you.
…..You must not forget it…if you remember it…everyone will remember it..You must not forget it…..
- So she exists!!
The rain clarifies all the senses, and all the feelings.
- Let it destroy your life with joy. Let him interrupt her with love. I am this that I am – I am anonymous Jupiter Ruppert and you Gaia are my wife. The woman I love.
- It's true!!! Gaia is true!!! She is real!!!! ---- What is happening Jupiter???!!! – I shouted to myself, holding my head with my hands, kneeling on the ground in front of the statue. -
I ran to my house. Everything was convulsing me until I reached her. The rain started and I locked myself in, squatting with my back to the door, looking down at my knees together. Some tears escaped me and I didn't know why. And slowly I fell asleep.
-Danna! It's me Gaia! I'm fine. Sorry for not keeping my promise
Sorry darling!!
- Gaia!!! Come back!!.. – I woke up extending my arm and hand as if wanting to reach something – It was another nightmare. Gaia, where are you?
The next day I woke up and had a quick breakfast. Should I find out what's happening?
Where is Gaia? Luna's name then appeared in my mind, and that of all my neighbors.
- It's true!! Maybe Luna can be the key!!
I hurried to my neighbor's apartment. A certain Luna, and there was only one empty apartment. But did anyone live here? I looked around every corner
wanting to spy Then I returned to my house. Everything was normal, but the atmosphere felt like it had a very particular aroma of a woman. That was unmistakable. I inquired more and more about that particular, so brilliant fragrance. -
I mentioned this to Gregory.
- Gregory you must believe me!
- Jupiter, I don't understand what you're talking about! There is no such Moon, nor Gaia.
- No, it can not be. I swear she is my wife.
- Friend, you should see a psychiatrist urgently.
- Forget it!
When I got home I always found the neighbor's cat near the window. It was not the fist time that happened. She spoke to her as if she could answer me, even though she didn't say anything to me.
There was a break at the university, and I had the day off at home. I started cleaning everything by doing the chores. In a particular way, situations were developing at every moment, and the shadow of that woman followed me as if wanting to tell me something. She was helpless to the point of not knowing how to respond to me. I was going crazy because of the situation that was taking place for this purpose. and I found a small device under one of the furniture. I didn't know what it was when I touched it, I had a flash of that woman.
- Gaia!! -. I screamed and immediately left the house. Soon I looked at my hand and realized that she had a ring on it. And that?
The artist was on the way with his canvas in hand, and a private portrait.
- Hey! Jupiter! I have already finished my work, what do you think? – He says with some happiness.
The portrait had the entire building painted, with several people, and it served all of us. So there, yes there, two women talking. One from the window and another outside feeling each leaf.
- It's!..!It's her! - My mind was clearing. -
- Is something wrong with you?
- Excuse me! Who are these two people here?
- Hey! ..!MMM! - He scratched his head – I can't remember well.
The couple came out hand in hand, and they saw us.
- Wow! – The woman said
- Excuse me! Do you know who these two women are?
- mm!..Do you know?
- No not at all. I barely remember the house – She clarified. -
I ran down the stairs to Gregory's house. I pressed my finger on the bell several times in a nervous back-and-forth, and he looked out.
- Yeah?
-Gregory. It's me Jupiter. Can you come out?
- What happen?
- Bring your notebook! It's urgent! Do it now!
Gregory didn't quite understand, yet he did. When I left, I showed him the canvas, and he admitted not remembering, and I told him to open his notebook.
- Tell me Gregory, for whom did you write these words?
Everyone looked at me strangely.
- Huh? – Gregory observed them carefully, one by one. Sentence by sentence – No!!, I can't remember well!
I knew it was all real. All the dreams were real. And I had an idea. Heaven. Yes, there where Gaia once was, and I ran to the terrace, to the place where the antenna is located.
- What is this crazy guy doing? – The husband asked his wife.
She shrugged her shoulders like the artist, and Gregory continued looking at his notebook.
- This this!! It just can't be!!! … - And I thought about the madness in my head. Sooner or later it should explode and it did, when many flashes from Gaia and me occurred in many locations that were valid. Effective. Real!!!
- Make everyone remember her. Do it!!!
- I must make everyone know her. Let them hear from her again. I must do it.
When you reach the antenna, look at the sky and shout.
- I LOVE GAIA, MY WIFE. GAIA I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!
The sound echoed throughout the house. Every part of the city.
- TEEE I LOVE GAIA, MY WIFE. GAIA I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!
- TEEE I LOVE GAIA, MY WIFE. GAIA I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!
…............. ..... THE FERVOR OF THAT CRY WAS HEARD THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE, BY ALL THE
TIME........................
........
- Yes, the words - Gregory said - Those words for Luna. So...
All the neighbors kept looking at me. Everything was in his divine cosmic order.
- Hey, something came back to me - Said the artist.
- Yes, the same thing happens to us too. -
- Moon? Jupiter!! – Gregory shouted. - I immediately descended.
- What is happening? -Asked
- That's what I would like to know! That's what I wanted to find out, Gregory. -
We kept verifying everything that happened. My neighbors left and I was only left with Gregory who came to my house.
- Jupiter, if it's really true, where are they?
- I couldn't say it, nor know it. It's all very confusing Gregory.
We analyze all situations. We feared that they had disappeared completely, and the strangest thing is that we lost all cognitive sense of them at first, as if it were just an illusion, or a total hypnosis of memory.
- I have to go. If I know something I'll tell you.
- Thanks, I'll keep you posted too. –
Remaining pensive, I went for one of the many cups of coffee I had already ingested. I must find Gaia. Yes it is me, I who declared my love for her. One night before she disappears. I have spent a lot of time with her, I have experienced all kinds of situations. We have been a couple. A marriage so real, that there was no farce for words. But the reminiscences in my mind had vanished. It was as if they were just inhabitants who emigrated, leaving those remembrances only part of invisible situations, outside of all reality.
- If you are gone Gaia, what clue can I get to find you?
When night came, that loneliness from the habit of being with her was invading me. No matter where she walked, it was like her steps were still there, firm in her walk. That aroma of such a particular perfume. And the cat that once again sat on the window to meow. At the end of dinner, my cell phone rang. It was a message from the study groups. By email, they had not given the notes. All with an approval. That was good, he supposed.
I turned on my computer, and entered the password for my email. Upon entering I found countless messages. The first is my teacher's note with some clarifications.
…Student Ruppert:
His grade is a seven. But I found some descriptions that had already been detailed in his work on Sumeria somewhat unusual.
Civilizations before the Ice Age? Other races? The saurians? Something very conceptualized in cryptozology or in sciences that have been lost. I gave it a good rating, leaving aside the final comments of each answer, since those matters were perfectly understood. However, I must clarify something else for you as a historian, which I would like it to be in person. Well, his theories aren't so crazy after all. Yes, it will seem incredible to you that a professor of the old line would confess this to you. But history will always hide secrets and mysteries.
Atte… Dr. Elmer Umbriel
I couldn't believe that my teacher gave me a good grade. But when I referred to ancient civilizations? To other races? He referred to Sumerian work.
I immediately went to the email that I never checked and it was sent a few months ago. Damn, those were long months. Here I found it.
…Student Ruppert:
He has a pass in his work corresponding to the Sumerian civilization. I have never found such a developed analysis of the life of that city. From their culture, their way of eating, their mythology, and astronomy. His work detailed a family of a father, a mother, and two daughters who live in the center of the city. His father goes out as a merchant to sell his spices, and his wife dedicates herself to care and domestic pottery. Then, as in the temple, the so-called orator narrated the stories to two men positioned next to him, and a certain group detailed the words of those stories with a chisel. It was so real that it was clearly surprising. I must admit that it was interesting to read his work, although a little out of context, in any case the purpose of the work is explained, which is to detail his society. What it lacked and that is why I have not given it a good grade. It is not citing specific sources. The sources of other books and works verify the veracity of each project. Without more to say. Say hello to Atte…
Dr. Elmer Umbriel.
Hasn't he cited sources? Now that I think about it, the job was completely done by Gaia. She is not a historian, and yet the work was exceptional. And I just don't remember, she had equipment, and she knows about electronics, and cooking, nutrition, and science.
…Mmmm!!…I must check that work with my own eyes. It could be useful. I never realized I could see this email, as well as the project requested at the university.
- We see the sent email must be here. If here it is in a file. - Said. When I opened it, it corresponded to several pages, with some drawings.
..First day…with my tutor Uruk we went to the village to visit some merchants. Urban shack, market leader, welcomed us, I had to buy some spices. While he was talking, there were some vases of oil. There next to him a
A girl with light eyes was playing, making some drawings, and I sat next to her. They were the clouds, and the god descending with his subjects.
- That's how we receive everyone, right?
- That's how it is. They were received to give fullness and growth.
She was a friend I made. In the market. My tutor continued with supply and sales. A storm was approaching with a great wind that swept through the surroundings. The winged one came down towards me, while everyone went to take shelter. "She was beautiful like when we saw each other for the first time, after the battle that broke the schemes of the world. "That is another story."
Society was manifesting itself with a very close agriculture for years
back.
…..
As she read new fragments, they became more detailed, but what she wanted to say:
She was beautiful as when we saw each other for the first time, after the battle that broke the patterns of the world. That's another story
What was he referring to? The saurians... Why did I say something so crazy? The eras were divided until the arrival of a meteorite that ended all life, and gave way to the Ice Age. That at least is what is documented, but before that, the only living beings that existed were dinosaurs. Giant reptiles, amphibians, insects, fish, arachnids. There was no room for mammals. And the first manifestation of the ape man was millions of years later. It's all crazy. And what does it have to do with Gaia? Well nothing. She posted all this information. It is so possible that it is an invention of her madness. Although someone so smart wouldn't do something so daring. And she disappeared. She sometimes appeared and vanished as if she were a ghost. TO
Sometimes she did stupid things like hanging from the antenna on the terrace like a bird. I don't know what to determine?!! God!! Where have you gone Gaia?!!!
Such implausible information, and the indications of it, were few clues. She disappeared with all her things as if by magic. Luna, who was one of her friends, also disappeared.
Gaia's phone number was blocked and trying to call her on another phone, she only answered, an answering machine. Wrong number. Her social networks vanished. There was no contact. I never met her family, nor her friends, except Luna who was her friend in the neighborhood. Could it be Carol? But she was another friend from here, the building. And of course that cat that comes at night to whom she talked and gave entire talks on time. I only knew, because she told me many times, that she came from an island. That island was in Polynesia, which by the way. Gaia did not at all resemble a native of those islands. She possibly was a different race. Or other white-skinned ethnic groups have settled.
It's late, and I must go rest.
When I lay down on my bed, I kept looking at the ceiling with my head supported with my hands behind it as if supporting it. It was the typical position of the person who cannot sleep. And my crazy ideas did not stop examining everything I had experienced until now. Next to that I closed my eyes, and when I opened them, I could remember that something was staring at me. It was me, there in the Hades room, and a man was guiding me.
- I'm supposed to be the guide - I explained for my serenity. -
- You are not the guide! I am the guide – That ghostly subject confessed.
- Why did you bring me here?
- Because he wants to see you!
My heart, like the times I saw Gaia, began to beat strongly. -
We went down the corridor and his purple eyes became piercing. It was the Effigy holding a plate with some inscriptions. A light blinded my gaze and something hit me hard. When I woke up, it was morning, and on top of my chest, the neighbor's cat was licking my face, and then it started meowing.
- What a nightmare!!, If you can say that's what it is - I thought, quickly sitting up and passing my left hand over my sweaty forehead. The cat jumped out of bed, and wagging his tail, he headed to the living room as if he were angry about something.
Today I won't have to go to work, but I will go to university. I have to talk to my teacher about the exam. It is imperative, therefore, for man to know enough about the matter. Maybe he can compile some traces that can help me. Everything was of utmost importance.
In the absence of his whereabouts. We could not determine its disappearance. We didn't know family, friends. No one to ask? We couldn't even file a complaint. There was a possibility that they left on their own. But in one night everything disappeared? It was very strange. And we all remembered them with greater depth. As if time had reset and recovered everything. A whole year with Gaia. Yes. One year with her.
The day after the events I went to attend the classes that would be my turn. I still had the day off from work. Upon arriving at the university, the class was suspended due to student strikes by leftist commissions. At the exit I ran into my professor, Dr. Elmer Umbriel.
- Student Jupiter. Good afternoon. What a shame you came.
- Professor, Good afternoon. – When greeting him, I took the opportunity to clarify the points of my work and the exam. I wasn't interested in the grades.
only the content of what had been written. That would give me some important information about Gaia. – Estem!! Teacher!!
- Yes, I already know what you're going to tell me. Come, I'll explain to you, there is a cafe nearby - Dr. Umbriel knew what he was referring to.
- Let me invite you.
- It is not important.
We went to a mini cafe inside the university. A special room. When we sit down. We placed our orders and the waiter brought them immediately.
By taking the first sip the professor manifested himself in the role of a wise man.
- Jupiter, the information you placed is very important to the point that it is also unknown. There are some books that are somewhat unknown to humans that are kept in special libraries that are very difficult to access. There each copy hides data about knowledge that for any historian would be just crazy stuff from someone with a science fiction imagination. – When explaining to me each time he frowned strangely – Don't look at me like that.
- But..
- Let me continue. Those books talk about lost races. Of advanced civilizations. Of transformations of time and space. Hole theories and dimensional transpositions. Living Dead. Coming apocalypses. Monsters, mythology. Astronomical knowledge. Alchemy. Magic if you like more.
- It's all very strange
- Strange? You talked about that data. The sauron race? – He said that way, and I was impressed – It doesn't matter! What is interesting is that those cursed books are banished from the earth. They hide in libraries that do not exist. We did not talk about Alexandria – Until then he listened attentively to what he explained. They are secret and sectarian places. – when saying it
that way. Could it be that the Hades room had any of those books. Now I understand why many objects disappeared.
- Teacher? Could it be that there were objects?
- Clear! They are not only books, there can even be objects and it is very crazy for me to say this. There could be inhabitants – He expressed sinisterly. Those words left me stunned.
-And how do you know so much about that matter?
- Heh! Heh! I knew he would ask. I know that his father is an archaeologist. Like him I was too. I have been to many places in this time of life. Tibet. The so-called roof of the world is one of them. Of course I haven't been able to reach the top of it. There they speak legends of lost cities like Shambala.
- It is the imaginary city. Like gold.
- Well said. Just like those magical cities, libraries exist. There I accessed certain sites on an expedition. A cave not too far away. Inside there were some books. I was able to take one of them. When I opened it, his writing was quite primitive. Its sheets of tangible material could be dismembered. I took some photos of all the pages I could. It seemed like a joke by whoever wrote it. There were drawings of men, animals, unknown flora and fauna, semi-humans, half animal, half man. Of that sauron race. Maps of all kinds, and drawings about stellar movements and finally a map of an island whose location was unknown – Saying this made me shudder. An island. U place where Gaia came from. Could be. - After my colleagues and the local authorities came; we had to go to the police district. –
- Professor, I know it would be too much to ask. Could you provide me with that material?
- I'm sorry. – He said sincerely – the local district confiscated everything from us. Monks in the region argued that it was a violation of
a sacred place. That's why when I read your work and exam I was surprised.
- So there is no way to find that information?
- And how did you know? – He asked, although he couldn't tell him
- I know someone who knows.
- Oh really? Hmm! That someone must be special, right?
- He disappeared a short time ago. I urgently need to find her – he lamented to me.
- I see. Those are complicated than they seem. – She took out some sheets of paper and a very strong ink marker pencil from her purse and began to draw. Each stroke marked the entire interior. And after that he drew some objects. – This is the island and there were other drawings there. A statuette, totems, effigies. He drew what the people would be. When I saw it I was amazed. His drawings were very archaic, although understandable. At the end he gave them to me – Here. Maybe it will help you find that person.
- Thank you!
- Well, it's time for me to retire. If I can be help just tell me, yes?
- Yeah!!
- Bye bye! – He got up from his chair. He took his bag, and left.
- Bye bye! – I picked up the drawings and left that place.
Behind us, without us noticing, someone was not listening from another table. That damsel figure was wearing a hat and glasses. Next to her was another somewhat attractive woman with dark glasses and pigtails with several barrettes in her hair. Among the hustle and bustle of the conversation, I was only able to gather that information to develop the physical faction, but my distraction was total to them. How did I notice her presence? A familiar voice. Only with that data and a sixth sense that emerged, she became more acute between mysterious talks with Doctor Elmer Umbriel.
As soon as I got home Gregory was waiting for me sitting on the stairs. He had previously sent me a text message:
- I have important information.
- Ok – I told him. You may also have something that can be of help to us.
Finding him sitting there he was smoking one last cigarette. Smoke spread across the neighborhood scene.
- You had a difficult day old man!
- Not so much. – We went to my house to discuss the clues. From my bag I took out the drawings.
- Old man, you're not very good as a cartoonist, are you?
- Do not be an idiot. These drawings were not made by me, but they could be of great importance. Above all this one – The design of the island. -
-Now that I remember it, Luna told me about his whereabouts.
- The island? – I asked, intrigued.
-No! About her and where she comes from. An island. Both with Gaia, they came from there.
- Good!, from the island. – I clarified, wanting to explain that she was referring to it. It was a chatter of individuals with cacophonous errors. -
- I told you that about her! Good to get into details. An island located near the coast of Portugal.
- How Hi Brazil. The island that disappears. An island that does not exist to the human eye. -
- Not precisely. I know the legend. And he didn't explain to me that it was an island that disappears. It would be total stupidity. But it was an island on which a monarchy had been established. Incredible, isn't it? What exists!
- He is reliable in his legends, just that. Too bad it has no credibility to be found. Gaia had told me that she came from an island in Polynesia.
- Now we are really toast. Do you notice the difference in distances?
- That's true! – And she took out another drawing of the island. – It doesn't occur to me to think that one of them is lying, or both.
- There are many islands on the planet.
When we said that, we didn't know what to mention. The cat landed on the window and jumped onto the table. More specifically hitting a glass of water that was overturned on the drawing of the island. The water crossed the line, blurring it. Hey!! – I said angrily at the disaster.
- It's useless - Gregory confessed - Finding them is almost impossible.
- We must continue trying other ideas. -
The drawing of the island was fading from the pencil ink. Forming a very particular face. Seeing him I felt the familiarity of him. Although my memories were not completely clear. Gregory checked the other drawings and then interrupted my meditation with some comment.
- Is it known that monarchies exist today?
- I'm not saying they don't exist. There are tribal islands.
- What if it were one of those islands that disappear and appear in other places? I have written a story about it. The island in the mists appeared in one place or another in the world. And it kept an unknown race.
When I heard him, I didn't know whether to tell him to get treatment in a hospice, or to applaud him, since his hypothesis was very dynamic and valid in many ways. After talking to the professor, I couldn't help but imagine that there are many mysteries in the world or the universe. It could be true. But that blurry drawing, what does that face remind me of?
- Jupiter, somehow we will find them...…. -And he repeated my name again, because he was in deep thought-Jupiter!
- Oh! I'm sorry. He was lost in this drawing.
- The one who ruined the cat?
- It looks like the face of one of those gods carved as emblematic figures. Elongated ones that decorate altars and dance around them to celebrate it. Museum pieces Heh! Heh!
- Yes, I suppose that must be it. My head is already spinning. Let's continue tomorrow.
- I have the same opinion. I have to write some articles for a magazine.
- Good luck – I told him. And Gregory retired.
I went to prepare some dinner. All the drawings were on the table and the cat continued his rounds.
- You sure miss them, don't you? Hmm! Me too. We are two beings in love who don't know how to break the laws. Break the laws?
What things do I say!! And here I am talking to a cat. Do not get it wrong. Man, you're the closest thing to Gaia. And the fact that you are here at least gives me a sense of her presence. By the way. You have your owner. It's strange that you always come here.
I stopped talking to the cat in unison and went to the window. Where he came from he always had the lights off. And even there is no one there.
Strange! – I said to myself, analyzing. He is a stray cat. But always from there. Somewhere he enters. The cat seemed to be staring at me and purring. I went to the kitchen to serve myself dinner and brought him a plate to serve him some meat, which he thanked with a meow. While we had dinner, he analyzed the drawings. That very specific face. Soon the cat placed its paw on the oil juice.
- What are you doing?!! – I yelled in a forced way. – You are going to dirty the ceramic floor!! He didn't pay attention to me and walked comfortably. – Well I'll clean it up later!
Once again I focused on finishing my dinner and drawings and the cat's meowing did not stop until it landed on the window by itself to lie down.
- Ahh! He just went and that's it. She was always very strange and if she comes from royalty it is most likely that she had to leave out of urgency. Maybe you should marry that forced marriage by agreement. On the island where he lives That is the most logical thing. But if there is no such thing. Each island in Polynesia is part of a country. There are no records. Not even her name – Memory of Gaia. In the cabinet on the left wall I heard some noises. In a jar with a beetle between leaves. She was feeding. I guess I should put more of her in? He's been there for days since Gaia had brought him to the house.
*****//**** Time impasse.
- Gaia!! What the hell is that?
-Danna!! Don't be so scandalous.
-Hey, I don't want my house to be a terrarium, that's what the park is for.
- Hey! It's a poor creature! Or not?
Little guy!! – He tells the insect
- It won't be part of the dinner either, right?
- Don't be wild!!
- For your information we eat meat every day.
- Not the one you know!!
-??? What are you talking about?
- I haven't said anything.
- Well. I guess it has a vegan tendency – I said to myself.
The beetle was half the size of a big finger and had two terrible pincers, however with Gaia, it maintained a state of submission. Her docility was due to her smile and her words. Seeing her happy and the way she treated him he knew
that she was very special. Her face watching with her reddish eyes at that insect in a large jar, as she placed each leaf stem. It made an ideal home.
-Danna! These extraneous details help to live, don't you think?
Seeing her in that state, I smiled without saying anything. She was right about everything.
****//****
It's time to wash the dishes. At the end the cat was gone. I brought a rag to clean the floor.
Seeing the mess the cat made, I picked up his plate. He had walked everywhere forming paths. And when I got up from the ground I was surprised, and I went to the table to take the drawing of the map. I looked at him and looked at the ground. The image was very clear. The island and a path from a face. Some letters? I got into a squatting position and followed the line with my finger. Then I went on my cell phone and took a photo. I didn't understand those letters, but the image was of the island, and a path to a face. I thought of someone who knew about it. My father being an archaeologist. He had knowledge of countless places
I sent the photo to my father.
- Hello Dad!! Could you see this?
- Son!! It's good to know about you. And Gaia? Your mother asked about her, Sistine too. And your brothers want to meet her. She – She said – Ah! And how do you find everything?
-Well, thank goodness she asked about me. Gaia...good. Q
- Can you see the photo I sent you?
- Yes, it seems like you clean the house. Rare by Gaia. You, I don't know that you are a disaster.
- Hey!! Thank you for the beautiful and sincere compliment!!.. That photo? You don't see anything particular. Doesn't it look like an island to you?
- Son! You are very stupid! That looks like a drawn image of an irregular square.
- I'm looking for an island in Polynesia or the Atlantic that has this shape.
- Polynesia or Atlantic? Do you realize that you are at two opposite poles?
- Are you taking Gaia on vacation yet?
- Who speaks? mother?
- Yes, it's me! Your mother! Jupiter, and my adorable and beautiful Gaia? Don't tell me you already broke up? I'll break a stick over your head if that's the case? Greetings!! – My mother growled. Always so delicate with her son. -
- She is not here. And I'm fine – she expressed ironically.
- You do not interest me! I'm interested in Gaia!
- Mother, there is only one - I said to myself - Dad, did you make your voice louder?
- Yes, your mother wanted to communicate too.
- Good. And what do you think of that drawing of the island?
- Son, he doesn't look anything like that. Even the islands in the Pacific do not have such an irregular and perfect shape. It would look like it had been carved. Now you know that reminds me? When you sent me the photos of the museum utensils. That drawing was on a statue. An effigy. Above her face. And also. In a very old papyrus, of which there was a time-worn letter.
Hearing it, I closed my eyes and thought about the effigy. Of course and that papyrus, which was next to it. This had to be some indication.
- Hello! Jupiter?
- Yeah! Is it the effigy perhaps? – I said to myself – Oh! Sorry dad. This information will be very useful to me
- What do you want it for?
- Ehh!…It's for the museum.
- Well, I hope I can go visit with your mother.
- I want to see Gaia!! Gaiaaa!
- It's your Sistine Great!! Greetings!! Brat!! Stop interfering in other people's conversations
- I also want to see Gaia! - My mother.
- Gaia is not there!! – I screamed and then calmed down.
- Well, I'll see her next time, send her greetings - My mother said.
- My greetings too – Sistine – And of course not to you!
- Go away brat!!
- Well son, I'm going to hang up. Take care! – My father completed.
He had some essential information. Tomorrow afternoon at work, I could analyze the effigy well. Although it was not entirely simple. They were very strange conjectures. But he had burned all the available cartridges. And what if Gaia was really still in the city?
The island-the map-the effigy. All the hypotheses in my head processing.
There is no such island in the world and if it exists it is a ghost island. The objects in the Hades room. Many of them without answers in the studies. Legends of places of fantastic places and civilizations never discovered and my wife, a supposed princess who married me by agreement, disappeared along with my neighbor, who would be her friend.
This is my summary at the moment.
I concluded no other reason than to go rest.
The fog was blocking an entire sector. I walked without pauses, and without knowing where to go. They were waiting for me there.
- If you're going to go, do it soon.
- And who are you?
- You already know me. I have been accompanying them every night. By the way, clean your house from time to time.
- You look like the neighbor's cat.
- Yes, of course I look alike. I'm the neighbor's cat. Hey, neighbor? There is no one there.
- Wait!! You can speak?
- Gaia is right, you are quite naive.
- This is crazy.
- Indeed, we are all invited.
- Where is Gaia?
- On the island.
- Well, thank you for the report.- I expressed ironically. – How did I get to that island?
- Ahh! That's the best part. The lord of the mist is the one who transports the island. He is like a boatman. Do you know Charon?
Hearing those words sent a chill down my spine.
- Hell of the Greeks.
- Good for you!! I thought you were a non-existent anonymous.
- Thanks for the compliments. – I confessed with suspicion.
- Well, I can't say more! You know, it's not that I like perpetuating curiosity, nor hiding things. He left the investigation to you. Besides, I'm going to have problems with superiors.
- Thanks for your help -
- Nothing is grateful. I also want Gaia to return. She was never so happy as here. You are good at something, Jupiter. For some reason you have that name. She goes to rescue her.
We continue our separate ways. And finally the fog lifted.
That's when I woke up the next morning. Someone was ringing my apartment doorbell. When I opened my eyes my cell phone was ringing incessantly. I joined in little by little out of laziness.
Voices were heard in my entrance
- Are you friends with Jupiter? Good morning – Gregory said to the woman who was ringing the doorbell.
- Yes, I must talk to him immediately.
- I am also in the same situation
The girl seemed a little uneasy as if something abnormal had happened.
- Sorry I didn't introduce myself. I'm Gregory. Friend and neighbor of Jupiter
- Josefina, his classmate.
- This guy must still be sleeping. It's a little bit complicated.
- I know. But I urgently need to talk to him.
When the door opened, two beasts rushed at me.
- WE HAVE TO TALK TO YOU JUPITER!!!!!!...
- …..?¿?¿?...Eh!.. well – I shrugged my shoulders with a submissive look of being surprised by the dawn.
I invited them in. There they both sat around the table, while he prepared tea. When serving them, each one took his cup. As always, I made myself a coffee. Gregory took some papers out of his bag. He had found a writing among his things. A story made by him with a drawing of an island. It was like an unfinished story in which the first-person character falls in love and gets married and with his wife they experience countless strange situations and she disappears and in the end an island is drawn.
- I swear Jupiter!! I don't know where this came from? I don't remember writing it!!! And something else. In a different handwriting stroke there is a quote: look for me
here. – This letter is from Luna! I'm sure! On one of our outings he wrote on a piece of paper a phrase that I dictated to him. His handwriting is very particular.
He looked at the unfinished work. Josefina didn't understand anything.
- So it's true? – She said with the cup in hand in an astonished manner.
- Excuse me if I intrude. Does it have to do with an island? Gaia?
- Hey! Have I never told you about her?
- She was with us when we studied. I do not know how to explain it. Until yesterday it was as if we were both and now she and her image are there. She calls for help!! While you read without paying attention to us as if you didn't exist. She told me take good care of him. Jupiter, I don't understand any of this, but yesterday I was at a table near you and the professor, and I know they were talking about an island. About a civilization. I know about the drawings. And there is something else since that time, my head exploded with many memories. Many. And there is someone in my life that I thought didn't exist, and exists. I need to know what that was. I have told you.
- The same thing happened to me - Gregory said nervously.
- Of course - I thought - When remembering. They had told me their situations, and then everything came to nothing, when Gaia disappeared, and now they must have remembered again by shouting her name in the sky. Yes, Josefina told me about her dreams, about that man Neso, the traveler, and Gregory about Luna and her kiss. – I know friends, that's why we must find Gaia, Luna, and that Neso guy. They may have links. -
Everything Josefina confessed to me was true. Everything about Gregory was true, and all my stories were true.
- A hidden island. I saw her. -
- How did you see her?
- In a dream!!! From the sky. A reddish sky and not blue like the one we know. – Saying it she swallowed a sip of tea and then coughed
- So do you know where it is located? – Gregory asked – We can find them!!!
- No, unfortunately I don't know!
Everything was definitely coming to fruition.
- I already know where to go. – I confessed with complete confidence. The lord of the mist, Charon, and the effigy. The Hades room. Then I thought about them – I'll go to work, maybe I'll discover this whole enigma.
- I can accompany you? –Gregory asked.
- I want to go too
- I do not think that it's necessary!
- Yes it is - someone said
-???
-???
-???
- This is real?
- I'll go with you too.
- Eh!...Eh!!..Jupiter? This is real?
Gregory was surprised and Josefina froze in astonishment. In front of us he wagged his tail and purred, stroking her whiskers.
"Well, it's not surprising either," she confessed with her ironic face. – life is a box of adventures and surprises.
- Eh..Jupiter? The cat spoke!!
- Yes, Miss. Sorry I didn't introduce myself. Mikonos Noir at his service.
- This is good? - I asked myself
- Clear. That's what it's about. Now let's move on to what's important. Go to the museum. All three are involved. I will follow them.
- But how possible?
- Their minds have become clearer. Clarifying means that they can understand a global language. All living beings can do it. Even if you read a musical score or sound, or algorithm could do it too.
- I can't believe it!
-If she had not come - I point to Josefina - her minds would not have opened - You are a portal
Josefina was scared when she heard it.
- Come on! It's not that unreal either. Let's say that evolution came sooner than expected.
- Can I ask something?
- Everyone can be able to. Are you going to want to know how I can speak? Well it will be answered. All three must go. All three are involved in this matter.
I nodded with just a look.
- Well that's to be expected, but first I would like a bowl of milk please. And that it is not too cold.
- Anything else?
-Yes, the lady stopped looking at me with those lost eyes and the writer stopped moving her fingers like piano keys. Anxiety can torture them.
I went to fulfill his designs by taking a few steps and crossing to the other side of the kitchen, there was silence in the living room, and when I arrived the cat had disappeared. Josefina and Gregory were not there either.
- And the cat? And Gregory and Josefina?
I felt the knock on the door when it opened, it was the two of them. Leave the bowl on the table.
- Where had they gone? And the cat?
- What are you taking about? Gregory asked in amazement. -
- I must talk to you about something urgent!! - Josefina expressed.
Then inside I felt that the same situations that developed a few hours ago were being repeated.
- This can't be? - I said out loud.
- What happen?
- It's nothing - He grabbed my head.
The same events unfolded and the cat appeared.
- There you are!! – I said pointing at him – Why did you leave? Answer?!!
- Meow!!
- Huh? Speaks?!!
- Jupiter? What the hell? –Gregory replied.
-I would say that the pressure from his wife killed him. – Josefina confessed.
- This damn one can talk. Come on!
They both looked at me.
- Jupiter? Do you want to come back later?
- Of course not!!!
The cat went straight to the table, and there to the bowl of milk. While he grumbled about the fact without understanding what happened, the meow and a wink were enough.
-Let's go to the museum! -For some reason he knew that there was the answer or at least enough guidance to find Gaia.
We immediately went out to take the first bus. The clock had passed the hours at a very strange speed, but when they came it was morning?
Is it afternoon now? Of course, the second time the events were repeated, it was not in the morning, it was in the afternoon. Now that I think about it, the same thing has happened to me repeatedly with Gaia. Time repeated itself and the previous experience was a past that disappeared and appeared in my dreams. But how the hell did it happen?
And then all the facts!!! And then the talking cat!!!
Ahh! First go for her, go for Gaia!!... This marriage is a nonsense of the universe as I thought.
Who are you Gaia? Why is all this happening?
It doesn't matter anymore, I'll have time to ask later.
Let's see today I also had a day off. So I just hoped I wouldn't run into anyone. It was the departure time for many. While we were traveling on the bus, I sent a message to Origima to keep the keys in my locker. It was already a little late. That might be, but Wilson would still remain the night duty officer.
On the trip, both Josefina and Gregory remained silent. Each one exhorted by observing some characteristic of nothingness. The real reason was that this whole journey was full of fantastic stories. No one in their right mind would believe what is happening. It was just the three of us. A historian, her fellow historian, and a writer. The three of them playing at being detectives in an unlikely and foreign mystery.
When we arrived we went through the back door. Luckily, most of them had retired. We carefully went through a back door. I had a set of keys that my boss lent me to use in case of emergencies. When we opened it, we found ourselves in an empty and gloomy place. It was scary like
when you enter the house of terror. Totally dark, full of bags and boxes. Something very similar to the Hades room.
- Jupiter, your work is terrible. I didn't think it was so scary to work in a museum.
- It is not like this. This place is like a warehouse.
- That's true. There must even be original documentation – Gregory stated – Museums keep many unexhibited objects. Anyway, you are the experts.
- Thank you! - Josefina said with some calm - are you a writer?
- It's my job, and I enjoy it. This story would be interesting as an epic adventure. do not believe it?
- I just want to find my wife - I said.
- They must be fine Jupiter. Don't worry – Gregory reassures.
- It could be interesting. Of course I want to be in it – Josefina expressed.
"You will be that, I assure you," she smiled.
- Hmm! Hey writer!!...mmm!!.. Ahh! Are you sure you're flirting with me?
No..Nooo!..I'm sorry but it can't be, I'm a dedicated woman. We are from different races. Besides, you're looking for a girl. I am not second to anyone. No, I'm very sorry. – He made a face of indifference.
-??? – Gregory frowned without understanding
- Don't worry. She loves to reject boyfriend candidates that she invents.
- But... I just said...
-Forget about it!!!!!– I got angry frankly. Gregory laughed.
Crossing a pavilion we hid behind a wall in the ground floor room. There was a loud human sound. They were catatonic noises for the mind.
- God!! What noise is that? – asked Josefina.
- It looks like a bear! –Gregory expressed.
- I think I know! – I argued anticipating a response. -
When we turn to see. There was the reason. Wilson was sitting in a chair sleeping. His snoring was worse than Gaia's.
An image of her resting one night was seen face up with a glob of mucus created by the air in her nostrils and her mouth opening like a tenor. And I was in my bed looking at the ceiling with irritated eyes and a possible insomnia situation.
- It's Wilson. Sleep like a fossilized log. Don't worry, we can move forward.
We went to the elevators to the room on the second to last floor. It was darker there than usual. Josefina with a little panic clung to Gregory.
- Are you OK? – She asked.
- Yes, it's just a little scary. There may be ghosts!
- Get used to it! – I said – If you want to one day work in a museum.
- Thanks for the moral support Jupiter. I'll keep that in mind the day you see one.
What she didn't know is that she had already seen one. And she had already terrified me with it.
We went down the hallway and reached the stairs. Josefina trembled and that fear spread through Gregory.
- Calm! - Said.
When we ascended we were on the top floor. There we traveled a few meters. Moonlight was reflected from the windows. And a silhouette moved with speed.
- Huh? - I asked myself. The silhouette vanished between the doors of the Hades room. I took out my keys and turned the knob. When opening both. The light made a reflection. A shape approached us and then disappeared.
- Jupiter? What was that? –Gregory asked scared. Josefina could barely speak.
I went to the switch. It seemed that the electricity was not working, so we moved forward with the light of our cell phones. We crossed the statue of Hades in the middle. All the figures had a dark complexion.
- Jupiter! we better leave! –Gregory fearfully gave me the warning. - Fear invaded me like him.
-And Josefina?– Gregory asked. She is not with me!
- What? - Said. A mist formed like fog.
- AHHHH!!!!...- Josefina's scream made us move forward.
-Josefina!!
We ran and I tripped on the ground, hitting myself. On top of me, Gregory fell. The humanoid form was present.
My eyes saw it clearly. He slowly approached. And he extended his hand. I closed my eyes out of fear. The one that Gaia kept so that she wouldn't torture me. The lights came on.
Next to me the neighbor's cat purred. Jupiter was face up on one side. Josefina appeared. She had stopped screaming.
The humanoid was as human as us. A young white haired man. A height of one meter seventy.
- Please!! Him – She explained with some parsimony.
- You?
- I'll tell you. -
Gato seemed to laugh and went towards Josefina. His walk calmed the atmosphere. The three of us met and that man introduced himself. The guardian of the mist.
- I thought they were never going to come
We didn't understand anything at all. I organized my thoughts for a minute while that man walked marking with his arm extended, opening his palm. It was as if he wanted to invoke magic.
- First things first, who are you?
- My name is Tristan N. Cerberus. Knight of the order of the underworld.
- Could you! Please! Be a little clearer? – Gregory asked excitedly.
The cat meowed and Tristan nodded with some seriousness.
- I am from an ancient order that no longer exists. Something like the Templars or the rose cross.
- Good!! Good!! And are you sure you're going to tell me that you live here?
That one agreed. By carefully observing his aura. From his shape and bearing I was able to determine that he was the ghost of the legend of the Hades room.
- This can not be happening. This is crazy.
- Don't worry! – Gregory let out a breath.
Josefina remained silent, and she did not take her eyes off him. She studied him as well as every detailed aspect of him. His face was so particular.
- Come with me! We must go.
The cat was the first to move towards the direction of the effigy. Upon entering the room, Jupiter gave us his blessing. Josefina walked next to the lord of the mist. The mysterious Tristan.
- I know you from somewhere.
Tristan did not look at him and remained firmly in front. With Gregory we analyzed everything. Josefina looked at him carefully again. She felt tears leak from her eyes.
- Yeah!! You knew you were!! If it's you. The Man in the cape. You, the man who saved me in my dreams. Yes, I know it's you!!
The lord of mist said nothing. He actually stayed silent. I remembered that Josefina had told me at one point in her time about a dream. Just like what Gaia appeared in me.
- You showed up. And you were in my dreams. Tell me? If it's real? Was she really?
He didn't answer.
- Listen to me!! – And she grabbed his arm tightly. She was angry. Her look was sad and angry. – You, you called me by my real name.
Because of who I am!! Tell me if it's true!! If what you experienced is really true?
-Josefina!!–I said –Josefina!! – I shouted. She turned around – Come here!! –
She looked at him carefully and tilted her head with a hopelessly negative gesture. She got angrier.
- We are in the central room. There she started all the preparation.
Tristan was clear. To find Gaia and Luna, we had to go there. Where the effigy opens to the island. Tristan would go with us. Josefina went for the cat. She didn't want to see the face of Nessus, or Tristan. Gregory approached the statue. And I stayed thoughtful.
-I understand her anger. But can not be. She realized it, like you with Gaia, or that individual with Luna. I apologize – she made a kind of reference to me. We manipulated his time and hid it and did it again and again. We keep it in his mind, and his dreams
"It was all true. Tristan N(Nesus) Cerberus.
When we went to the museum everything was becoming clear. That those facts were the pure truth, and not just dreams measured between dreamlike and fiction. The man in the cape existed. Luna's kiss existed. My wife Gaia and I love her. Then for strange reasons, everything disappeared and became confusing. Her minds manifested blankly, until I screamed for her by Gaia. And everyone remembered again She then remembered as Gregory. Someone was playing with her memory to forget. It was Tristan, and Luna, and most importantly Gaia. They were like that demon from Laplace's theory." -
And are they in danger? A rival kingdom. -