Asteroid

[arjunk]

Όνομα Συγγραφέα: Άρης arjunk
Είδος: Επιστημονική Φαντασία
Βία; Όχι
Σεξ; Όχι
Αριθμός Λέξεων: μικρός
Αυτοτελής; Ναι
Σχόλια: Γραμμένο με βάση το writing prompt: "A massive Asteroid is heading directly towards earth, as we come to terms with our imminent demise, the city-sized object enters our atmosphere and slows down to a stop". Γραμμένο στα Αγγλικά, γιατί δε δουλεύει αλλιώς

 

The world had seemed to stop along with that rock. Of course, at first, everyone was dumbfounded, most greatly embarrassed... but slowly, like a clock rewound, the world started moving again. Cautiously, constantly aware that their time seems inexplicably borrowed - and also strangely united, in a sense. It was hard to find the time to argue amongst ourselves, what with our humbling death mocking us eternally from above.

It was truly a sight to behold. Visible from the northern hemisphere, people got to see a strange moon rising and setting, always in the same place in the sky, as it stood still while the earth rotated, yet moved alongside it in its course around the sun.

It was not for a few days until someone realised, the asteroid was, in fact, moving - just not in the sense people expected it to. It was rotating, very, very slowly, on its horizontal axis. The movement was almost imperceptible, save for a strange set of straight lines, seemingly engraved on to the monolith, that had started to appear over its top.

People let their imaginations run wild. The most rampant theories concerned what was on the other side: an alien city, a message from God, a mad scientist's master plan... a giant mirror, eyeball, face. You name it, it's already been named.

An international team of astronomers and physicists had gathered in Switzerland to build a drone with which to inspect the heavenly body. By the time they came forth with their results, the rock had rotated to reveal more of the lines, only they weren't lines - they seemed, indeed, to be hieroglyphs of some sort. Maybe a code. No one knew, but almost everyone revered in the distraction from the recent frightening events - not to mention openly welcomed any sort of arbitrary weirdness that confirmed the absence of the - now lethal - laws of order in the universe.

"We have worked out" the lead scientist's words echoed around the globe, "that the asteroid is rotating at a constant rate of exactly ten kilometers, per hour. A staggeringly round number," he continued, "which in itself may be a clue as to its true nature. As for the drone, the time it would take to construct it far exceeds the time it will take for us to see the whole damn thing. So consider this our official statement: wait, and see."

And so we waited. Every day, you could see a little bit more of the glyphs. It was increasingly obvious that it was a sort of writing: clear-cut symbols with more-or-less even spacing. Many tried to crack it, to no avail. The rest waited patiently, going about their daily lives with astounding normalcy.

With every passing day, more and more of the message was revealed. Some lines joined up to make what was two symbols, one; others continued on in their curvy journey.

But it was not until Day 9, when the people of Russia woke up to a staggering realisation: the glyphs were letters. Human letters! In very human English! And they spelled a crystal-clear message. Its meaning was somewhat vague at first, but not vague enough to keep people from screaming in horror as the massive asteroid quickly re-started its deadly decent.

Only pieces remained of both the Earth and the Asteroid, with not a single soul to remember how on that great big rock of space, this punctuated word was carved: "PSYCH!"

[Ἀπόστολος Βρανᾶς]

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