The beings known as The Searching were a religious cult at first. Their scriptural destiny was to travel to the Centre of the Universe and God — the wisest of all. Most considered it superstition now. Nevertheless, as a species they still felt driven to find the Centre of the Universe.
After millennia, at the Centre of the Universe they discovered a small dim star, orbited by a single planet. There was no life on that planet, but amazingly there was a single structure. As they entered they felt the presence of an incorporeal sentient intelligence. Instinctively they bowed.
“Please, do not”.
They were welcomed as friends. They learned much: the wisdom of the universe they met was as vast as its age.
It was their youngest that asked the most interesting question.
“What do we call you? You are ‘God’ in our language”.
