Prologue (1/2)
Humanity has finally reached paradise.
There it was able to free itself from old age. Wrinkles. Problems with hearing and vision, physical weakness became unfamiliar to it. There were no more diseases and injuries. It was capable of always remaining young and living a pompous life.
There was no more death. If old age does not come, then life will continue. Even illnesses and catastrophes could not take someone's life. It was no longer a necessity to hold onto the mortal body, which only held down. Eternal life, prohibitive entertainment, total bliss. Humanity opened up the gates of paradise with its own hands. It was exactly in this paradise that Angela was born. Blessed, she was cared for and raised, laying high hopes.
Once she set off with her parents to the coast.The water, covered with a thin layer of ice, untouched sandy beaches. Pleasant sounds, like the sound of bells. Young Angela was very impressed by this wonderful beach. She fell in love with the endless sea and sky. This feeling always warmed her heart. She felt that she knew this alluring world.
Then something else unforgettable happened.
Angela squatted down, grabbed some sand and made a slide. Having finished the top of her mountain, she rested her hands against it, and then pressed. She pressed her hands to her chest and made a wish. Become a flower. In response to her desire the sand hill started to flatten and fall off. The sand grains began to move down and the hill became very small. The cone shaped mountain began to change its shape. From the bowels of the sand hill began to appear a flower. Angela imagined in her mind a sweet cosmos.
The flower was made from the sand. Leaves, stem, and the flower itself: everything was made of grains of sand. A sea breeze blew, the grains started to fall, but the form was held. On this sand beach anything could be created. However, for now this was Angela's limit. She looked around. Her mom looked at her with pride and smiled. Her dad's eyes were also filled with warmth. Angela again began to build something.
Thinking over what to do this time, she heard a voice calling out to her. She turned around echoing it. A girl with short emerald green hair stood there. She was approximately the same as Angela. She pointed at the cosmos.
”You made this?”
”Mhm.”
”I also want to. How is it done?
”Well…”
Angela hesitated. It was so simple, but she doubted whether the girl could cope with this. Angela herself did not have friends her age, so she was very glad that someone paid attention to her.
”I will show you now…”
Angela grabbed some sand and touched it with her hands.
”Like this. And then you just make a wish.”
This time she made a tulip.
”Wow.”
The girl's eyes gleamed. Angela smiled gladly.
”By the way, what is your name?”
”Kristine,” answered the girl.
”And I'm Angela. Nice to meet you.”
”Yeah. I came to sea for the first time. It's so cool here.”
Angela was so happy that she got a friend. Kristine made a pile of sand.
”What to wish for?”
Worried, she put her hands on the sand and made a wish. The grains of sand started to fall but in the end nothing happened. There was only a pile of sand.
”Huh?”
Angela started to laugh, and Kristine looked at her reproachfully.
”Sorry, sorry. You hesitated too much when you chose. It is necessary to think of only one thing.”
”Only one thing. Only one thing…” whispered Kristine, making another pile of sand. She was too worried and wasn't able to concentrate.
In the end, it turned out to be something like a potato.
”Huh? Why?”
Angela laughed again. Kristine pouted.
”I'm sure it's all the sand.”
”That's hardly likely.”
Angela took Kristine's sand, made a wish, and an anemone grew right on the spot..
”There.”
Kristine pouted and silently gathered a new pile. She took it with both hands. The sand started to move. The surface began to crumble, and this time everything turned out differently. There was something under the sand. And this something broke out from the top. A strong hand, closed into a fist.