The Flashback
Eve Ariel was born in Israel, long before Israel knew she was born, the state I mean. Eve was born on one Friday morning. It was the first Friday ever in this universe, and this universe is not the only one. It has another, a very similar version of it, in which things are darker or brighter. It depends on which side of the moon you are standing.
Eve did not know it the
Eve Ariel was born on the top of one particular mountain. Besides being very particular, this mountain is also the only gate from which one can travel both universes, but she didn’t know it either back then. She was simply born. Her birth was smooth and unfelt. She was lying on the ground when she opened her eyes for the first time. She was naked, but she did not know it either. Eve was lying there unable to move. She felt a slight pain in her right side of the body. She wanted to stand, but could not. She was staring at the skies above and saw only a warm and blond sun. She was also able to hear the sound of a distant violin. The air was sweet, you could chew it. It smelled so good, like the blossom of many lemon trees. She was at ease.
“Where am I?” she was asking herself. “What is this place? Who am I?” These were only a few of the unspoken questions that kept her mind busy.
Eve was thirsty, although she did not know what thirsty meant. She raised her hand to look at it, amazed for the first time by the ability she has to transform a thought into action. One of many transformations she will go through later. But back then, she simply didn’t know it.
Eve stood up, realizing she could do so by the power of her mind. Her long wavy hair stood up with her too. It followed her on every step she took. It covered her.. Her hair smelled like Pine. That is why later, she will never be able not to bathe in a pine bath at least once a week. The smell was too good to be forgotten.
“I see that you have finally woke up” Eve heard a voice in her head.
she turned to see the only creature that was there beside her. “It took you a while” The same voice repeated harshly. “Nice to meet you, “he said. “I am your man”
“Come on”, he added. “We have a lot to see and learn”
Eve looked at the creature besides her. She saw that he had a huge scar on the left side of his body. He also had one huge scar at the back of his back. It looked as if he was cut in two; both back and front.
She immediately felt a strong urge to touch these scars. So she did. To her amazement, the creature who called himself “her man” didn’t mind.
“I was waiting for your touch for so long,” he said. To her, it seemed like he was calm and quiet; it was a music to her ears. She touched his scars. The scars told her the story of her birth, in small fractions of pictures. The pictures went rapidly in her head. They were fractions of events, sounds, and visions. They were past and future together. They were vivid and real, but she was too thirsty, she was not able to listen or watch them.
Once she removed her hands, the visions she saw stopped.
“Come with me,” The man said. “I know exactly what you need now.”
The man took her hand, and together they walked to the top of the mountain.
They reached a fountain; A small hole in the ground. Hidden. Secret. Now she realized where the sound of the violin came from; from down beneath the earth, from inside the hole, it was playing its musical tunes while she was taking her weekly Pine bath on the roof. However, This time she knew that he was certainly watching. She didn’t mean to be mean, but she simply followed her heart. And her heart told her that this is the Right thing to do. The water were freezing cold.
( Edited).The water kept flowing to the sweet sound of music. They were transparent, liquid blue and white. Eve Drank.
The liquid was thick and tasty. She swallowed the semi- solid transparent white liquid and immediately felt God. She felt the spirit of the DNA. She was one and many when the drops traveled down her neck to her stomach, filling her with satisfaction. His and hers. She will never be able to forget this taste.
She immediately stretched, extending fully her muscles. Each organ and muscle participated in this harmonious dance she was dancing. Other creatures started approaching her, imitating the moves of her Martial Arts dance. She moved so precisely that she even invited Time. Back and Forth; Left and Right.
And in the center Hop she goes traveling with the rhythm to any direction she wants, seeing both the Upper and The Lower, The Earthly and Heavenly, The here and there, the now and then.
“I am the Spirit of that place” she heard herself saying. “This was all created for us- mankind. She understood perfectly well that there were others, creatures from the parallel- darker brother universe whose thought was quite similar to hers. They were not happy upon their arrival.
She didn’t question further. She was simply not programmed to do that. She was not allowed. There was hierarchy in this place- Order. There was night and then followed by day after day after night. She counted four major shifts. Each is more unique and precious. Together they form Unity.
She opened her eyes. Her man was not to be seen anywhere around, she missed him greatly already, so she started wondering, dreaming with her eyes open into the system.
She will never be the same again. She has become comfortably numbed; she has become his. She has changed. She didn’t see him, her man around, but felt him, his heartbeat still beating inside her; she felt undefeatable when The Other approached her.
“Who will you be looking for?”
“My man”
“Why”
“I don’t know”
“Who knows then?”
“I don’t know that either.”
“Why?”
“I don’t know.”
“Do you know what to know? Do you want to Know me? “
“Yes, I do “
“Why?”
“I don’t know.” She replied.
” Well then, let’s get to know each other” he touched her with his fingertips.
“How is this to be done?” she asked
He handed her a green unfamiliar thing. She touched it first. It was so soft and flexible. It smelled so deep. She closed her eyes again, letting her brain interpret the smell she was just smelling, her hair responses to the smell like an extension of a million athens and wires. She was electrified by that smell. The Other came closer, his long, slim body circling her. He was both a woman and a man in one.
” It’s yours, nice to know you.” The Other hissed.
She Tasted it.
At once she was thrown to the ground. Her entire entity shots down. Crawling on the dust as she was crying with pain. She felt the place of her man`s scars burning; she felt the pain he had when the sow cut his flesh open in two ,divorcing him from the demon to whom he was attached. She burnt with the same fire. She choked, she had no air, she was stomped by my many feet and stones, she bled, she was suffocating from smoke and then from Gas.
She experienced so many forms of death at once. She was Defeated to the bone.
“What have you done?” She heard her man asking above her head.
She was lying to his feet. Her hair was gone. She felt so necked without it. She felt so old.
“Please forgive me.” She asked.
“I can’t.” He said. I am not programmed to do that.
“I Just wanted to know.” She tried her luck.
“And…. Do you know, now?”And he was not joking. She was doomed.
She could not reply. She knows too much; too much doubt.
The night took over the day. She was thrown down and down. He was gone. She reached the bottom, and now she has to climb her way up and fight back The Other.
