Star Date #15

‘Everywhere!’ He exclaimed.

He took us on a trip. To distant planets, through other dimensions.

It was less than 30 minutes walking I think and we say roughly, 25, 30 places?

It was so easy walking through these giant circles that just sprang up in front of you and carried you instantly over millions of miles of uninhabitable space.

Like stepping out your front door, every 100 or so meters.

And coming into a completely different world, dimension even.

What was the awesomest is that when you walked into nothing at all, like clear blank space.

The machine’d form a little bubble around you in which you would float.

The gazes we took at starry spectacles, milky ways, dark holes I tell you.

It was amazing.

Then I had a thought and asked:

‘Did you know the guy who owned it before?’

‘The previous owner’, the girl corrected me. Giving me a cheeky wink. Bastard.

‘Why yes!’ the man exclaimed again. He was doing a lot of exclaiming.

Then he explained.

The previous owner had come in about two or three weeks ago. He had met Babalatchi and showed him his incredible device. The man said he was a traveler and that he was looking for someone. He had heard of this place and just wanted to see it on his way over.

Babalatchi housed the man for a little. Introduced him to the chief of the neighbouring village. And drank many, many liquorsnakes with him over the course of many, many evenings.

They’d become buddies, actually.

‘But where is he now?’ the girl asked?

‘I don’t know, that’s the problem!’ Babalatchi exclaimed. Again with the exclaiming.