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- The last time TLG had travelled through this mirror, he was thrown into a universe filled of trees and landscape. This was not that sort of vortex.
- TLG finds himself floating in a void. Leonardo is nowhere to be seen and he is once again, all alone and in the dark. His lightning flashes being swallowed completely by the inky darkness. Suddenly he perceives a familiar, tiny voice singing in the distance.
- ‘Odelin! Your alive!’
- TLG struggles through the inky blackness but he cannot move because there is nothing to struggle against. But he doesn’t need to because the singing is getting closer. TLG recognises the song as Odelin’s song and he sings it so sweetly. Eventually something appears from out of the darkness, dimly lit by TLG's lightning. TLG instantly recognises the small figure as Odelin.
- ‘Odelin, you are unharmed. I thought you were no more’.
- TLG can see him more clearly now but is horrified by what he sees. Odelin is emaciated and tiny and looks unlike any Gnome he has ever seen and completely unlike his vision. He is naked and has thin black skin clinging to his skeleton like the membrane of bats wings. He looked deteriorated and barely alive except for his large perfect green eyes that almost seem too big for his tiny skull. He just hovers there before TLG in the inky blackness rising and falling gently as if floating in gentle waves.
- ‘I have been waiting for you.’ He says in a child like voice sounding almost as if his grasp of the common language is challenged. ‘I cannot be broken as I am already as broken as can be.’
- ‘I do not understand. I found you in the dark broken universe. I saw you attacked by the menacing Nemis who had possessed the Ghost head who had in turn possessed Robin and it caused a vortex which the ghost head and I fell into. He saw you too and told me you were destroyed.’
- ‘Leonardo did thinked I was gone for ever. The Nemis and Leonardo do not know me truly. I am but a metaphor for you brokenness. The missing piece of the puzzle that is the lightning Gnome am I.
- You see, when you were created, you were destined to be unbrokened. But because you were created in the broken places, you could not be unbroken there. That is why you are here. The crash is about to happen and you brokenness will be unbrokened. You will be repaired to the magic of all ages. You and I must be the greatest of all!? You will see, you will see my Lightning Gnome. Us will see.’
- As Oldelin spoke his eyes were a fire with child like exuberance while his feeble body hung quivering in the void.
- ‘We I must be transformation to the real one. We must come together, and when we do, we will be truly an amazing creature of all existence. The real one in the unreal places. We will be able to travel many horizons in one vortex and exist in any realm we choose, and you will find peace from you lightning and I will be finally a native part of you once and for all.’
- ‘But if you are me, then why did I need to travel so far to find you?’
- ‘You have not travelled too far, only into yourself. Remember the honey pool in the bees cave?’ Odelin said his expression becoming more crazed.
- ‘Yes’
- ‘That was a metaphor vortex of an atom of your own broken mind. You have been falling into yourself on a course with destiny.
- Your friend Leonardo, although he is great, he does not understand that you cannot save your people unless you are unbrokened. Only then, you may go to return to your creator’s world.
- But in order for you to be unbrokened, you must see the ultimate truth of the universes. The core of everything. Then you will be one with the universes.’
- By this time, Odelin’s face was almost grimaced in ecstasy, which made TLG feel rather uncomfortable but Odelin was a compelling creature and TLG knew he must complete his destiny.
- Come, look into my eyes and you will see, and when you see, you will be changed forever.’
- But Odelin’s words washed over TLG as ghostly beings. Each word was like a like a spirit that seemed to bend the fabric of the meta universe as it passed and he knew there was only one place to go. Down again.
- *Reflections*
- TLG gazed into Odelin’s eyes but all he could see is a reflection of himself. He looks yet closer into the reflection of himself in Odelin’s eyes. Then he notices he can see Odelin’s reflection in the reflection of his own eyes reflected in Odelin’s eyes. Soon Odelin’s eyes completely engulfed TLG’s perception. He found himself falling into his own reflection in Odelin’s eyes then falling into Odelin’s reflection in his own reflection. Faster and faster until existence seemed to collapse into a tunnel of ever decreasing circles. He peers deep into this tunnel and perceives an object at the end. It gets closer. Could this be the revelation the Odelin had promised.
- *The Parabox*
- Eventually the object was before him and the tunnel faded into blackness. TLG's perception was completely disabled. The object did not appear to be an anything you could perceive with your eyes. It was like a symbol but it had no form. It had appendages but they were indescribable. It was like seeing a complex emotion. Indescribable as a three dimensional thing.
- Then he realises knows one of the appendages. It was time. And then another as space. Then another as the four elements, air, earth, water and fire. It was as if the substance of existence had been presented to him in a box. Then the appendages started to melt away. One by one he watched as time, then space, then the elements, until finally the object was nothing at all.
- TLG was completely lost. He realises that he has felt this was before. The nothingness was so profound it could not even be described as darkness, as the very concept of the light had did not exist. He felt no sense of time. Every moment of his consciousness was both no time and infinity. He had no body. For that matter could not even imagine what a body could be. He had no eyes so he could not see. All that TLG can perceive is the melancholy of an eternal nothingness paradoxically existing without existence. TLG cowers in a tiny crevice of his own mind. Completely dysfunctional and depleted with no grasp on any reality. He feels as though reality has disintegrated to the point where only his perception of himself exists and nothing else.
- At some point his mind explodes.
- Sudden everything both impossible and possible is crushing infinitely and filling infinity. Time and space and the elements along with infinity of dimensions pervade all existence.
- All substance existing without form and completely ubiquitous. TLG is suddenly gripped with the feeling of immense and desperate loneliness so profound that he can do nothing but scream with all his might. But the scream his silent and eternal to melt into the, chaos unheard and ineffective. A desperate cry to be something other than that which has no substance or structure.
- Then from somewhere out of the chaos, TLG starts to become conscious of his thoughts and emotions. He realises to his relief that he does exist, he must be, because he can think.
- *Revelations*
- TLG’s first revelation is that the eternal nothingness and the eternal chaos of complete existence are one in the same thing. He realises that absolutely nothing is absolutely everything. Without structure and without law. He perceives what can only be paradoxically described as “Completely nothing”.
- The simple notion echoes through his mind as it slowly crawls out of chaos. “Complete nothingness is everything?”
- Eventually TLG’s perception is restored. But now he feels separated from himself. As if he were the little storm cloud the floats above his own head. TLG can now see and feel the chaos of complete nothingness without being part of it. He sees the chaos like a thought. Just a part of his own imagination. TLG waits for something to happen. He feels as though he is dreaming and has become aware of his dreaming, within his dream, so he waits to wake up. He waits but still the chaos persists like and uncontrolled torrent flooding infinity.
- Then, from another corner of his mind appears a vision. He sees the white spiral symbol floating there, hanging in his mind’s eye like a ghostly apparition; a circle with two spiral arms curling in opposite direction. Slowly the symbol starts to morph and change. The spiral arms start reaching out and growing thinner. It grows more arms and the circle grows and eye. Its colour darkens to inky black and the tentacles adorn red stripes. The spiral symbol has changed into the brittle star known as Nemis. The Nemis just hangs there writhing as if trying anchor itself futilely to the complete nothingness.
- Without waning the image melts into the chaos as if it never existed. What could this mean? TLG thinks to himself trying desperately to think his way out of his predicament. TLG knows he must understand some profound truth before his journey though this very strange vortex can be completed. Suddenly TLG has a horrific thought. He thinks ‘What if my home universe has already collapsed and I am stuck here for eternity? Lost in the meta universe to drift forever in the glue of existence; or even worse. What if all existence had collapsed completely and now this is all that is left.’
- TLG reassures himself that these notions are too horrible to be true, and recoils from the unproductive thoughts. TLG strains his mind. He searches in the gray nothingness for another sign. Any clue to a way though.
- *Freedom*
- Then TLG remembers that how, that just moments ago, he had almost disappeared. He could not remember time passing, or having any perception of his self but he does remember one thing. One pervading desperate cry that pulled him back from oblivion. Suddenly TLG is engulfed in revelation. ‘Free will!’ TLG immediately realises that the core of existence is Free Will. The will to be something other than nothing. Not just the complex free will that all thinking things have that govern their decisions in waking life. That is but an echo of the simple true at the centre of all existence. ‘For something to be, it must have a choice and the right to change. To be something other than what it is. Nothing in the existence can be truly immutable except free will itself. We can all change or decide not to. From the most simplest atoms to the most complex abstract beings. Without free will, complete nothingness with pervade eternity. Only free will itself can disrupt the chaos of complete nothingness and permit the complexity of universes, space and the elements. Free will is the Meta universe.
- As TLG revels in his revelations, he becomes aware he if looking at his own face in front of him. As if once obscured from his perception he suddenly realises he is looking at himself and has been the whole time. It seems a whole eternity has flashed before his eyes in an instant.
- But as he looks into the eyes of his reflection he notices his reflection is not right. Something is missing. He studies his reflection closely and to his horror, he realises his reflection is writhing. He can see bubble moving under his skin and clothing. Then suddenly, black and red striped tentacles bust from his skin. In shock he raises his arms to look at his real self but he does not exist, only his writing tentacled self.
- He looks on in disbelieve as the tentacles twist and writhe, all grasping at each other, clinging desperately to form his writhing self. But as the tentacles held each other so tightly and formed that macabre sculpture, TLG realised that it was himself all along and that he was the refection and the horrible distorted creature that presented before him was his real self.
- I am the Nemis He thought to himself.
- TLG suddenly realised another truth. That all along. He was made of that same broken fabric that was the nature of the Nemis metaphor. But then a question suddenly occurred to him as if out of the blue.
- What is broken?
- What needs to be unbroken?
- But as he asked the question he already knew the answer as he had found it just moments before.
- ‘Free will!’
- That was the missing piece. That is what the metaphor of the Nemis was. That’s what was broken about the realms which created them. There was no Free Will. The very core of existence was missing from these realms. He suddenly realises that until now he has been falling through destiny in some unlikely collision with a cure. He would be able to escape from the clutches of Destiny and now he understood so perfectly his power and course.
- TLG reaches out an invisible arm towards his writhing reflection and so his releflection responds in kind until the tips of their fingers meet.
- Then suddenly the black tentacles freeze. Starting from the tip of his fingers right down his entire form, the tentacles stop moving. Then they start changing colour. Slowly the black fades to grey and the red flecks turn pinker until suddenly and sporadically the brittle starts bust into light like so many little stars igniting for the first time. TLG can barely look at his reflection, as it is so bright and glared that it dazzles him. Eventually, every brittle start had transformed into bright starlets with the tentacles replaced with spiral arms burning so bright and turning so hypnotically and he could only recognise himself by a glowing silhouette now encompassed in shining spiral arm galaxies. Like a brilliant mosaic churning of light.
- At some time while staring at the light, TLG suddenly knew everything about what was happening to him as if the knowledge had been planted in his head. But that were because it was. This was the deficit that the reunification with Odelin had filled. Everything became clear and invigorating revelations filled his mind as he floated there in the void in front of his strange apparition.
- He knew now he was broken but that is the only way that creatures like himself, can exist. Nature does not bare them any other way. But just by some loophole in the ethics of nature, He was created as Odelin and The Lightning Gnome. Two separate broken entities but broken in differing ways. Odelin had Freewill but little substance, and The Lightning Gnome had the Substance but not the Free Will. At least the Free Will in his realms of broken Xrouds was collapsed and ineffectual. So TLG was a prisoner of destinty with out real freedom. All choices he made were just a torrent of atoms bounce around his universes like marbles cast from the box forever under the tyranny of causality to bounce into the oblivion of the ages. Luckily, Odelin was there to direct his path and bring him to his destinies final resting place. Here, where now his Xrouds were repaired and Free Will restored to his being, and from now on a truly magnificent and magical creature; the most complex in the Meta universe. No more ethereal and broken, now with all facets of natural ethics restored to his being, he was just like a real natural being of Free Will.
- He also realised that he had a lot of work to do. Leonardo was still quite incomplete, not knowing that his Free Will had been stripped from him during his inception into the abstract. Ironically, his direct creator had relinquished his own Free Will in order to become immortal, but in doing so, inadvertently created a very rare island of Free Will in the desolate broken realms of the brittle star that make up a ratio of the Meta universe. And now this Island was released on a rampage to free them all hopefully. Yet Leonardo was not the only one to be saved from destiny. He must also save his fellows back at the village.
- Another thing was also apparent to him now. His cloud. It was an abstract metaphor to guide him to Odelin. A causal facet to push him back to Odelin.
- And of course his name.
- What sort of a name was “The Lightning Gnome” anyway? Of course, his name was Odelin. Long forgotten in the barrage of lighting that afflicted his life. Pushed aside and suppressed because he could only know his own name when he was complete.
- But all the while caught up in such revelations, he hadn’t noticed that his perception of his reflection had changed.
- He was now in himself again and his reflection was gone. Now he could feel the presence of his lightning cloud over his head once again but this time it felt different. TLG felt he had control this time.
- He looks up at the cloud above its head, raises its hands and shouts ‘Vanish!’ In an instant, the cloud was disappeared in a puff of... cloud.
- Suddenly TLG finds himself in a tunnel of mirrors once again. He feels he is flying upwards at great speed, unstoppable and raging. Then, without warning, the tunnel is gone and TLG finds himself lying on the floor of the Bees cave where he had entered his first vortex.
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