THE SLIDE Part 4
Chapter 58: Trapped in Paradise
Fantasy: An Investigation — What Happened to Zed?
Recap
Zed is forgotten and unacknowledged for his role in closing the event horizon. While looking through the pond’s looking-glass and seeing outside the main event of the vortex, Farha and Kuzma fade from Zone 8.
“I am Marie, not Maria. Or technically speaking, I am both Maria and Marie,” she said, smiling, and passed through the door.
When Nikos went to put his hand on the template floating on the door, it moved and disappeared.
As Ra, Sophia and Tem approached, Tem exclaimed,
“I remember who it was. It was my niece and the other guy.”
“You do not have a niece. Never did,” Ra said.
The Investigation
Farha and Kuzma faded into the looking glass space on a tiny floating island in the air with barely enough room to move.
“I saw four places on Earth at various times relative to here,” Farha stated.
“There are nine places all together,” Kuzma was firm.
“Oh, really?” Farha’s sarcasm rose.
“Yes. See for yourself.” The dynamic time dilation compass from zone 9 twirled down and lighted on Kuzma’s fingertips. He gently nudged it up, and it flew around them both, thrice. Farha saw the interdimensional relationships of the four she had seen to an additional four, but was blind to the ninth.
“I see,” she admitted. “Where to first?”
Kuzma pointed. She nodded approval and away they went, folding space and time. They landed in an icy realm. From within the self-aware, self-protecting bubble, they “knew” it was not the place to look. And they popped back inside the looking glass platform.
After the next two tries, Farha faced Kuzma and moved into his personal space. He moved his hands up and stopped her, saying:
“You’re not planning on kissing me, are you?” Kuzma was clearly alarmed. Farha laughed.
“I want to merge our third eyes so we can use our combined skills to see where to go.”
“Oh… Good idea,” he let go of his resistance and their foreheads touched.
Farha saw, as did Kuzma, it was the ninth location at the center of the other eight realms:
“That is the spot,” they said simultaneously and three dynamic time dilation compasses flew around them, spinning rapidly. With the power of their being, they folded space/time and landed in a tropical paradise. There was a very tall being there, smiling as if he had been waiting for their arrival.
~ I am Ko, he sent thoughts to them. ~ I have been waiting for you. Are you here by the grace of the Elohim?
Both Kuzma and Farha shook their heads no and instantly knew the Elohim. The Elohim is an interdimensional 24 being composite demiurgic intelligence of vast knowledge and divine will that has often been mistaken for creation (also known as “God”). It is not God but was sent by Creation (God) to watch over and be a resource for Earth and her inhabitants.
Two streams of light passed overhead. Both Farha and Kuzma felt happy and connected to the entire world.
~You want to know what the light streamers are, yes? Ko opened his thoughts.
The light streamers were a lower vibrational means of transportation. The highest was the method that Kuzma and Farha already used, bending space/time. Ko knew the location of Zed and referred to him as the first or platform incarnation of Zoroaster. Did they want to go there? But to feast first?
“I will explain more about this companion of yours as we feast and before you go. I know you are in a hurry and there is plenty of time,” Ko spoke for the first time. ~Agreed? He stood up. Ko was an immense man with wide shoulders filled with strong intent, a powerful exuberance that each of them found to be magnetizing.
~Yes, they thought together. He included them in bending spacetime and they were deposited on a great stone island thousands of miles from the original location.
They sat under a large tree that grew out of the stone of the island at the edge of a spring-fed lake about seven hundred feet above the ocean.
Ko sang a tone that was peaceful under a canopy of stars. They ate fresh raw vegetables and fruit. Kuzma’s and Farha’s thoughts merged with a profound peace and quiet joy. After a time, a woman came. Farha ran to her and threw her arms around her. They embraced. It was Hannah.
Hannah laid out Zed’s story. He had lived thousands of years in the past. He had rejoiced with others nearby. Zed talked with Elijah, a messenger from the Elohim. Zed or Zoroaster walked into and was trapped in the shimmering slide that surrounded a maligned outcropping of rocks.
“While you may visit him and if the graces are bestowed upon you and Elijah comes, you may communicate with the lost member of your group. All this may happen. Even if it does, the grief and sadness both from his fate and what has happened will be heartbreaking,” Hannah concluded.
Zed’s Prison
Hannah and Ko brought them to six miles on the edge of safe space. Farha and Kuzma walked along the rust-red road to a desert region. With each step, they felt the high vibration slip away to one that was lower than Fort Normandy.
Elijah did not come.
They received fragmented and broken messages from Zed that were randomly indecipherable thoughts. The burden that Farha and Kuzma felt was heavy, both emotionally and physically. They experienced severe headaches and nosebleeds. They hobbled to the outer boundary, where paradise was again felt and visible. The higher vibration returned, albeit slowly. It seemed like days had passed. They slowly healed.
Elijah
The man in a rainbow aura of dazzling lights appeared and smiled.
~ I am Elijah, messenger of Elohim
“He, your friend Zed or Zoroaster as he is called here. He had to be Earth’s traitor, and that is him,” Elijah said in an angelic yet firm voice. “Elohim gives thanks for his sacrifice.”
~ These are for you and your others. From the hands of Elijah, three small memory crystals fell into Farha’s hands.
A different dynamic time dilation compass flew over their heads.
Space/time folded. They had returned to the looking glass pond in Zone 8 with the others except for…
Chapter 57 the previous chapter:
Chapter 59 — the last chapter of The Slide
An Index of Parts 1 and 2 (with a link to the Index of parts 3 & 4):
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