Traveling Light

She looked around, and was very well pleased with what she saw, even though the surroundings were different from the ones she came from. Not that it did anything, because she felt comfortable here, and everything was as real as it used to be, but the thought of how far she was from the well known, her usual daily life, was staggering.

Why she was here, and how she had come here, she did not think about, oddly enough. The whole thing was probably too intrusive really to allow flights of fancy, but it was strange to think about how far away she was from home. She felt that she never got the chance to travel back because she had a crystal clear sense of a distance of light years. She knew she was in a different solar system, and distances as judged by light years, are not something you just are dealing with. It may also mean that the people she was used to be around with, was completely out of reach now.

It made her sad that she would never see her loved ones again, and she closed her eyes and thought about them. The next moment she was home again, as if she had not been away, but no one took any notice of her being back. As if they had not discovered that she had been away. It felt mysterious and very overwhelming, but what surprised her most was the amazing way she had traveled such impossible distances. It took only a fraction of a second to get from one solar system to another when traveling with the speed of thought.

This she had learned now, and she was happy with her experience. All ended well, for she remembered quite clearly the feeling of infinity, completely insurmountable, distance. But it was not something she had acquired the license to, for she knew not really how she could possibly do this again.

She had taken part in it… and in a way as if she partially had done it herself. But it was mostly something that had been “done.” Perhaps to play with her, to play her tricks or to teach her something. The history does not say that but the idea of traveling on vacation, for example, to Majorca by plane, bus and taxi, seemed to her right after so absurd and naive, that she found herself smiling.

And did you look at her, right at this moment, you might have suspected her to realize something special, of some mysterious nature… and this could make one a little unsure.