#somewhere else 3
The ship had arrived safely. The giants could contemplate the new worlds that greeted them.
What they had in front of their eyes was not like what they had known in the past.
This one was a world of light. Nothing resembled the image of reality. They did not care ...
Everything was like John's dreams. He knew what that universe was ...
The giants were not aware of their transformation of which they had been the prey, it had made them change their state. They still felt like entities made of flesh and blood; in fact, it was not so. They had all become luminous energies, still a little dense to recognize each other ...
The ship landed on her landing pad ...
The big doors were opened. The giants, like children, ran towards the threshold. The pilots, as well as the whole crew of Jean's sons, let them go to the light.
Thousands of bubbles of light were flying in the sky. They would also come to meet this people forgotten for ages.
Having settled on what looked like a crystalline soil, they took on the appearance of human forms.
Some of the giants then recognized the shapes, the faces of loved ones and disappeared for ages. Was this what they called paradise? They did not know it, and they did not care. They felt an immense joy, an immense inner peace. Other bubbles were still coming. Some recognized those who had remained on their world and had suffered the terrible struggle of celestial titans. Nobody was missing. Neither men, nor women, nor animals, were all together ... Such was the wish of the One Who Knows. If it had been otherwise, He would never have completed what He had begun ...
Thus, the memory of a whole people was united in memory of the universe. They no longer cared what their future might be. Each felt the desires and thoughts of the other. Nothing mattered more than this union ...
What mattered the future, for never again would they feel the fear of death. What mattered the future, since they were a common memory. What did posterity matter, since they were a ONE people ...
Jean was happy. The giants had become laughing, serene children again. From now on they would live in a world of harmony. Harmony of colors, sounds, smells, souls.
He also knew that his journey was not over. For him, this eternity had not arrived yet. He still had to meet the guardians of this eternal world. He descended from the ship. He was surrounded by this luminous crowd, of which he felt a warm sensation. Then the lights gave way to others. He too met beings who had disappeared. His ... And then he forgot why he had come. He too sacrificed to the happiness of reunion ... A moment of intense happiness. Joy, nothing but joy ...
And then there was that voice coming from nowhere ...
"THOSE WHO SEEK YOU, HORMIS YOUR SON, ARE NOT IN THIS WORLD.THIS WORLD REMAINS THAT OF THE MEMORY OF THE ONE WHO KNOWS, THESE BEING HIS PEOPLE YOU, AND SOME WHO ATTEND, YOU ARE NOT HIS PEOPLE, BUT SOMETHING OTHER THAN WHAT YOU ARE, THE PEOPLE WILL NEVER KNOW IT, RETURN TO THE VESSEL, DO NOT FEAR FOR THOSE WHO REMAIN, THIS IS THEIR DESTINY."
Jean was the only one to hear that voice. He told his companions and his sons. The second of his children pointed out to him that this message could only come from one person. The messenger with rainbow eyes. She had always been there to guide Jean ...
All the shuttle drivers had deserted their aircraft. For them too, the road ended here ...
Jean realized that, indeed, a person was missing in these happy reunions. The messenger, her only ally in all these years; she was still so elusive. Yet, his two sons were present! She, his only love in another world, the only companion he had to support him, she was not there. He asked some questions to his sons.
The younger brother told him what they had done with his mother to join him in this universe. By mutual agreement, they had decided to postpone their arrival in the house of the Knower. His mother knew they had time. They had to find him first. To find the eldest too, without which nothing could have been saved.
He who knows has only one weapon. Iris! She was, at one and the same time, her daughter, her mistress, and her mother. He decided nothing without his advice. Something very strong tied them for eternity. Even Iris did not know what that thing was. It was she who interceded with the guards so that Jean could be supported by the guides. She went so far as to take the form of one of the giants' wives to follow him more closely. She knew that by doing so, she would also lose her memory. But only counted the sharing of the test.
So he understood what had happened. The passage of the river of oblivion had been necessary. He must not be tempted to return to his beloved ... She was no longer part of her old world, but was waiting on another shore, without the memory of what she had been ...
They were all on the other side of the mirror ... He who knows, was left alone to undo the knots of the skein of history ...
Then Jean conceived what could be the end of the story. But it seemed unreasonable, even supernatural. There were no other choices, other explanations. He kept this discovery in his heart. For the moment, it was necessary to obey the orders of the voice. Start again. Perhaps this place where the guardians of the One who knows resided. Maybe to the home of The One Who Knows ...