Number 3 in the Quinine Adventure Series
The Time Shard's emergence from the portal rippled through the Essentia, Quinine reasoned, and he assumed many Spellers knew what was happening and where. Forces, both Positive and Negative, were likely already set to converge on the spot. Quinine readied his magick and tensed for action.
On an annual trek in search of an ancient lost artifact, an adventurer follows a mystical path that leads to an unexpected encounter with a strange life force.
Quinine is caught in a dangerous situation and his surprising discovery of a presence unforeseen by spiritualists forces a shift in the collective connection that threatens to stop Time and plunge the universe back into the innards of Darkness.
Unless Quinine can prevent it.
Oldest Known Creation Story
Which came first, good or evil, and which is the excuse for the other? Is it possible that without evil there would be no good? From one point of view, it was good that started the cosmic ruckus in the first place. If the bringer of light doesn't come forth, the dark remains forever and no one is the wiser. But Goddess did arrive and Negater, the keeper of all that had been empty, didn't like the intrusion. Thus began the cosmic struggle to create our world: Goddess to make it happen. Negater to stop it.
The Quinine stories are from a translation of the ancient stone tablets discovered in 1955 in the remote mountains of Tierra del Fuego.
Chiseled in a script connected to all languages, the eight tablets tell a story in which a female deity battles an evil, invisible force for control of eternity. It's the oldest known creation story.
According to the earliest scribes, Goddess created the universe and all the creatures in it. If the old texts, numbers and symbols are to be believed, all we know comes from Goddess, and from the Hand, a living forest world.
The stories about Quinine's life on Parallax are based on ancient writings that few can translate, but modern scientific thought supports their truth.
According to a simple understanding of string theory and quantum gravity, the universe is divided into 11 dimensions. Countless tiny strings of universal membranes inhabit the 11 dimensions, floating and undulating in spacetime. When two of these membranes touch, the contact causes a cosmic blast that creates a universe. This is the M-theory.
Some say it is The Theory of Everything. The M has no distinct meaning because it's still a work in progress. The M has been interpreted as "magick" (my favorite), "mystery" and "mother." Many scientists use "membrane."
It's not only likely, but entirely possible that long ago, a single spacetime string curled in on itself to complete a circle, and it was this celestial collision that created our Big Bang. This is the Goddess Theory. - Raymond Duane
