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Shaken, I tried to make sense of what I had seen.
The vision of Isla, the chant, the masks — they were fragments of a dream, a dream that now felt like a premonition.
Feeling an urgent need to share this with someone, I reached for the communicator on my desk.
But who could I trust with such an unsettling revelation?
My fingers hesitated over the dial pad.
However, one thing was clear.
The universe had shown me a glimpse of something, a thread in the vast tapestry of existence.
It was now up to me to decipher its meaning and, if possible, change the course of destiny.
2
ISLA
It had been a misty day, the kind that drapes everything in a hazy embrace.
I’d been walking through the park, the damp grass soft under my feet and the world painted in soft pastels by the diffused sunlight.
I could still hear the gentle pitter-patter of raindrops on leaves and the distant chirping of birds. But then… a light.
Blinding, engulfing, as if I’d stared directly into the heart of a star.
My skin tingled with its intensity.
Just as suddenly as it had appeared, the light vanished, and darkness consumed my senses.
Now, as I bolted upright, the gentle hum of machinery filled my ears.
The world around me felt… different.
The air was cool, with a slight metallic taste.
The softness of my park’s grass was replaced by a cold, rigid surface beneath me.
A dull ache throbbed at the back of my head, and my vision swam with a myriad of colors as I tried to focus.
What I saw made my heart race.
Aliens.
Creatures of all shapes and sizes.
There were tall, slender beings with elongated limbs and shimmering, opalescent skin.
Smaller creatures floated in the air, their wings a blur of motion.
One particularly unsettling creature had too many eyes to count, each one blinking out of sync with the others.
The sight was so shocking, so utterly overwhelming, that my breath caught in my throat.
Panic set in, and a cold sweat broke out over my skin.
My fingers involuntarily clenched, and I could feel the rough texture of the surface I was on, far different from any material I’d known on Earth.
