Parallel: Prologue

As a creative goal of mine, I hope to try writing more creatively this year. As a part of that goal, I’m challenging myself to write a story. I have no idea how long it will be or if it will even make sense, but I have an idea in my head and want to roll with it. With that in mind, here’s the first draft of the prologue of the story called Parallel.

The universe began with a bang. Or, at least, that is what the humans of the 20th and 21st centuries first theorized and believed. That at some time 13.8 billion years before them, their universe exploded from an infinitely dense and hot collection of matter that inflated into what they would call a universe, a collection of galaxies and stars formed out of that initial mass. The light they observed from these masses appeared to accelerate away from their perspective, leading to the belief in that initial explosion that began their combined acceleration into the void.

In reality, humanity's universe began more with a birth than a bang.

The domain of a universe is ruled over by a collection of beings unknown to humanity for millenia even after their initial theories about a Big Bang. These beings came to be known as the Cosmos.

The Cosmos commanded the fabric of reality in their universe. For humanity, this meant the laws of the fundamental forces, the mass of atoms, the groupings of planets and stars and galaxies. The Cosmos could bend each of these to their will within their home universe, but, fortunately or unfortunately, theirs was not the only one.

The Parallel, as it came to be known to humanity, is the collection of universes that encompass all of time and space. Each universe represents the dominion of a sect of Cosmos, a subsection of time and space that is fabricated from the hands of the governing Cosmos. These clashing laws of reality separate these universes into bubbles, with the edges of these bubbles grinding into each other to form a void of uncertainty where the laws of the two domains grapple for control.

If this structure were stable, it would be a beautiful collective of varying visions of reality. However, the Cosmos were beings, the same beings that formed humanity within their domain, and with them, laid bare their own faults.

As was demonstrated frighteningly often with humanity, when beings of power come to control their domain, they rarely rest contented. Instead, they often believe their ideals to be the one truth of reality, and with that cause or any other of a number of justifications, move to conquer the domains of those around them. As it was with the Cosmos, resulting in the constant fluctuation of bubbles expanding and deflating at the whims of warlords and zealots.

As it was, 13.8 billion years before humanity, the universe humans called home had not even existed. That was, until the birth of the Cosmos who would come to be known as Andrada.