Story: 'Triangles', I

( Part II )

Giant shades of grey overtook the world, shrouding everything in colourless murk. Slowly everyone forgot how exactly things looked in the usually vivid daylight, but history remembered. History always remembers, unless tampered with by agents external. In museums and libraries the sun was documented and humanity's past life remembered. In laboratories and observatories, however, people strived to work out what had encompassed the poor planet.

Chemists analysed the murk and discovered nothing, in fact they discovered they couldn't detect the murk itself, and were perplexed. Physicists ran every test they could conceive of and found nothing conclusive. Within an acceptable margin of tolerance, the murk was simply not there and yet everyone perceived it and no one could see through it to the sky beyond. Medical specialists ran tests and slowly the world moved toward an understanding of what was really going on.

Brain patterns had been altered on a global scale. The murk wasn't there. Psychotherapists all over the world ran tests involving hypnosis and discovered that the grey disappeared under appropriate suggestion. The only problem was what was there once it was vanished. Within the murk there were shapes hanging in the air, triangular apertures hanging like apparitions through which you could see another world. The apertures were everywhere. People assumed they were the sources of the phenomena and indeed they were.

If you looked through the apertures, if you could see them to begin with, you saw a ghastly twisted version of our own world, crooked where ours would be straight, curved where ours would be fractal and pointed, and finally shifted to purple in colour wherever ours is leaning toward green.

No one dared to interact with the apertures, in fact it seemed impossible as people routinely walked through them obliviously all the time. There seemed to be no ill effects. Except for one Thursday, when Delores Grey touched one, and vanished.


To be continued...



PS It is not grey here at all, oh no.
PPS It is however very very cold.
PPPS I have long maintained that triangles are under-represented in nature, engineering and common every day products and now intend to part-remedy this failing. Onwards to Triangle Nervana!