Dante took a step back from the
goggles. “Yeah I don’t think so.” He said skeptically.
The cord moved the goggles closer
to Dante’s face. “You cannot hear what you must see, because I cannot tell you
what I have to show you, put the googles on.” The Witness demanded.
Dante sighed heavily, grabbed the
googles and strapped them to his face. “Ok, but I feel like this is a huge
mistake.” He said as the view field of the goggles opened up and he found
himself floating in deep space. “What am I looking at?” He asked.
The Witness appeared next to him.
“Shimmeron’s are hard to find, I mean, yes they are made of light and light is
easy to see, identifying one specific wavelength, tracing it back to its
source, and then hoping it’s the right source is a bit harder.” The Witness explained
as points of light blurred by them.
Dante watched they passed planets
and nebula's at blinding speeds. He touched his face. “These are just goggles,
why does this feel so real?” He asked.
The Witness looked back at him
over his shoulder. “Ok look, we only have so much time, I can find your friend
or we can have a School House Rock segment that explains the inner workings of
my hardware.” The Witness snarked.
Dante was a little shocked. “How
do you kn – actually, never mind. Where are we going?” He asked. The Witness
pointed at a point of light that was getting larger. “That’s not an answer that’s
a point of light, You know what, I was almost buying into this whole images are
more powerful than words and even with everything I’ve seen, I’d really
appreciate some words, start with what that point of light is.” He asked.
The Witness gave a heavy sigh. “That is, very possibly, the Shimmeron you are looking for.” The Witness explained.
Dante squinted in the direction
of the point of light. “See the ‘very possibly’ isn’t causing me to be bathed
in confidence right now.” He replied as they got closer and closer to the
light. “And are we really out in space right now, or are we still back in your
room on the asteroid?” He asked. As the light became bright enough that he
couldn’t stare directly at it. In fact Dante felt like they had stopped moving
completely and there was nowhere he could look that wasn’t blindingly bright. “What
the hell is going on?” He shouted.
Back on the Asteroid Dante was
holding his hands up trying to block the light that was bleeding out from under
the googles strapped to his face. The Witness watched him as the light flooded
into Dante’s eyes and filled his body with light. Dante blinked twice and
looked at his hands. “Actually we’re in both places at once, but something
tells me that doesn’t really matter right now.” He said.
Dante pulled the googles off his
face but the light was coming out of his eyes now. It had taken him over
completely.
