Inventor... turns out! This ark was truly amazing. Such a complex and durable machine carries us at great speed in a certain direction in the dark depths of space. How could one person invent something like this?
Our entire crew spends days studying its structure. And I still can't understand how it works without any fuel? What is the principle of the engine that carries us into the unknown distance of endless space.
What's pulsating inside, but not radioactive?
Quantum...
It's a pity he didn't also provide us with a replicator of food and things. It would be easier...
Who are you, my Stardust sugar daddy? And who am I to you? You didn't board this ark with me! Why? Didn't you have the right as its architect? The mystery lasted for decades.
I delved into the sciences in addition to my main job as a navigator. I could spend my leisure time uselessly, drowning my imagination in computer games, but it touched me to the quick that my beloved Yarison had such a powerful intellect, and I am a baby compared to him. I wanted to be worthy of it and I gnawed hard at the granite of science. Chemistry and physics were not easy for me, but where could I go... Then I still believed that our meeting was not far off.
The rich passengers, meanwhile, began growing food in the greenhouse instead of their usual idleness, although this is precisely what they are masters of. Many of them did not survive the journey and became fertilizer for soil for the prosperity of the rest of the younger ones. It sounds terrible, but what can you do? This is life in a confined space, where biological resources are extremely limited. Day after day, year after year, and one decade has already passed.
Tiren sought reciprocal feelings from me for a long time, but he realized that I was not particularly interested in carnal pleasures and he found himself another man from the technical staff who carried him in his arms and I was very happy for them.
My rare hookups with Rianka reduced our relationship to only friendly ones. She didn't want to accept me as a life partner, although I really wanted a marriage bond so that I could sleep in the same bed with her every night, but no, that didn't happen...
We weren't strangers to each other, I even confessed my love to her while drunk, but she turned it all to a joke, apparently she didn't have any special feelings for me. However, she always emphasized how good I was. Why shouldn't she fall in love with me back since I'm so cool? What a strange individualist!
The children who got on the ship with their parents quickly grew up and began affairs with each other, but they did not get offspring from anyone, and this circumstance greatly upset all the inhabitants of the ark. What's the point of colonizing another planet if everyone has become sterile?
I am sure that all the rich were promised immortality, but they did not take into account that Yarison was not going to reveal all his secrets to them. And in general, I came to the following conclusion: if he is an alien who specially arrived at a moment of crisis, then he did not save people, but the planet. He also said that all the unreasonable ignoramuses who do not know how to care for their cosmic home need to be relocated far away, and the planet itself will recover after being cleansed of the parasitic inhabitants.
Was I included in his plans? He fell in love with me not just out of some sympathy.
I remembered his words that he knew me well, which means we have known each other since before I was born. I had to believe in the idea of reincarnation, otherwise there would be little reason for such a man to value me. The rings I carried with me! I put one on my finger, and I attached it to a chain and wore it like a necklace.
Once upon a time I was already his partner, he called him Ray. Cheater Ray! How could I do this to him?
No matter how hard I try, I can't remember anything! Although... the image of the sea... I had a bright, piercing déjà vu when we were both standing on the shore. As if it had already happened to us! And I really love him... This is exactly what he wanted from me, a confession of feelings for him. This means that in a past life I did not express my feelings enough and betrayed him. That's why there were tears in his eyes...
Like all the people on board, I was also getting old, and every year new wrinkles and gray hair appeared on my face, depression was getting to me more and more because I stopped believing in what Yarison promised me. His image has long faded in my memory and my heart has sank without feelings, it froze from a tediously long journey in a limited space. It would have been possible to pass out in alcoholic drinks, which were prepared en masse by savvy individuals, but it got even worse. Jamien and I got drunk till emptiness, trying to forget ourselves, leaving several watchmen on the bridge.
Our friendly crew became one family within a few years, and some even managed to create marriages with the surviving descendants of the elite.
Yes, not everyone survived, and even Tiren, my restless friend-lover, died of some incurable disease at the age of 29… his entire rich family died out, such a pity... I held his hand with tears when he passed away…
All these forty years I had amazing dreams, like many others ark habitants, such that it was difficult to distinguish from reality. I woke up and took a long time to come to my senses, trying to understand what was happening.
These were different planets. I flew over their surfaces, seas, mountains. I saw animals and strange plants that were unfamiliar to me. My brain entertained me as best it could, this is the explanation that came to my mind.