Star Child by Paul Alan Page A

through his hair, and said, “I really don’t understand what’s going on here.”
    “Jason, we Anannaki have been here the whole time. We are the Guardians of all things. Our hands have been guiding Mankind since the dawn of your planet.”
    Jason could hear Zeruiah but not see his small lips move. A wave of trepidation flowed over him. He asked, “What’s going to happen to me?”
    “Your appearance has surprised us all but in saying that, we are glad that you came.”
    “I’m shocked to see Anannaki living here in Polari.”
    “I know the implication of our presence to you is one of bewilderment, and I want to reassure your sensibility that you are extremely safe here.”
    “Yeah, but what are the Anannaki doing in Polari?”
    “I wish I could explain everything but I will try to make you understand in the short amount of time we will have together.” Zeruiah paused, and waved his hand in front of his face and like some theatrical production, a vivid story played out in Jason’s mind. Zeruiah spoke telepathically. “When the Earth’s surface started dying we encouraged humanity to take refuge in our underworld domain, and in some small part our encouragement has led you to us. For millions of Earth years, what you now call Polari was at one time solely the Anannaki’s base.”
    “I never read that in any history books.” Jason sarcastically replied while watching a new version of history play out in his head.
    “Humanity would have gone extinct without us opening our world to you. It has been our intention from the beginning to let Mankind find its own way in the universe but we couldn’t allow you to go extinct.”
    “The Polaris Corporation conquered you.” Jason could not let go of his disbelief.
    “This is what we Anannaki have allowed your kind to believe.”
    Perplexed, Jason asked, “Why would you do such a thing?”
    “Mankind is such a young race, with certain primal desires. We could not allow the Polaris Corporation to believe they failed. They would have destroyed all of humanity trying to defeat us. So we helped humanity find peace by relenting in your dimension.”
    “Dimension? What?” Jason was even more puzzled now.
    “I know this is hard to comprehend but there are many dimensions we travel or even coexist within. We are architects of many Earths, and this reality is just one of them.”
    “So, are there copies of me in other dimensions?” Jason now saw different versions of himself flash in his head.
    “Yes, and they all live different, and colorful lives. However, our main concern is with you in this dimension. Jason, your mind has enlightened us of unfolding plots. We know you traveled through the Teserak, and how active the subversive Vril have become. We see schemes from men like Aldiss Spine, and Learner Rotterdam growing; the death of your friend Corkian Plaskett, and how sad you feel over the love of Lexis.”
                  “Yes, Lexis was killed.” Jason almost asked how they got that information but he knew how powerful the Grey’s mind-scan ability was, they could reach in the very depths of the brain.
                  “No, she is not dead. You have distorted the Space-Time Continuum; you’ve altered the future by changing the past. You traveled back in time before Lexis was killed, and prevented her death.”
    He saw flashes of Learner Rotterdam’s death at Chasm Fat boy, and asked, “Are you saying Lexis is alive?” Images of Lexis searching for him entered his mind.
     
    “Yes, she is alive, and thriving on Mars.”
    “Thriving? What do you mean thriving?” Jason’s confusion grew deeper every time Zeruiah spoke.
    “To save your life, we had to bring you into our home, and once you crossed the membrane, you spanned the space-time gap between our home world and Earth.”
    “Are you saying I now exist in two places?” An imagistic depiction of dark reflecting star formations liquidly expanded across his mind’s eye. And