FICTION
The Last Human in the Milky Way — 2.1
Excerpt from Chapter 2 — A young girl
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(…)
A young girl raised her hand and pointed: “Look there, that’s the Milky Way, isn’t it?”
The adults who were standing with the girl raised their faces and looked up at the sky above the forest.
“Yes, that is the Milky Way,” a woman said. “Isn’t it beautiful?”
They stood silent for a while and looked up at the starry sky. It was a magical blink of an eye. The night sky came so close. It was something warm, something familiar that spoke to them.
“The road here,” said the girl’s mother, a woman with dark, shoulder-length hair, “is the Milky Way. Our road up here can be called the Milky Way,” she said.
“Yes,” the girl said, “that’s what we will call it.”
“Yeah.”
“And think that — it’s just as if — yes, that we are the last people in the Milky Way.”
(…)
A human being
“Mom,
what is a human being?”
.
“My dear,
a human being,
that’s someone on two legs
who can feel and put words
on something strange
they feel inside
-like
love,
longing,
empathy.”
.
“Mom,
are we
the last humans
in the Milky Way?”
(…)
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