The Doorway
“You ready, Alex?” Evelyn asked, as much to get his attention as she was anxious to finally see the result of years of work and research finally prove their theories.
Alex snapped out of his deep-thought trance and smiled back at her. “As ready as I’ll ever be, Love.”
Evelyn pushed the button and the engineered door hummed to life and opened. Opened to to another place, not of Earth. She looked in wonder while Alex looked in concern, because the air didn’t change or vacuum away like he predicted.
Evelyn removed her helmet, took a breath, and gave Alex a look to to prove that everything was ok. He still looked concerned. Evelyn slipped out of her suit, giving up its safety and walked toward the doorway, knowing Alex would follow, if for no other reason than his cavalier romanticism.
Peering through the doorway revealed a near blackness beyond, with only a dull white object about yards ahead. She took a step forward.
“Ev’yn, don’t you think…”
“Alex, we been working endlessly toward this. You have to want to see!”
“But…”
“No, I am going, this is as big as the first steps on the moon. Bigger. We will be the first.”
When they reached the white object, they found it was a cylinder platform, etched in glyphs of nothing familiar or ancient. Atop of it was a darkened spheroid looking of smoked glass.
Evelyn lifted the object up and studied it. “It almost looks like an apple. Alex take a picture.”
Evelyn smiled and brought it to her lips with a smile. The place shifted as if a wind came from nowhere and everywhere. The door slammed shut, causing Alex to turn his head to see that they were suddenly cut off. Evelyn gave out a familiar, ecstatic scream, causing Alex to turn back toward her. The ecstasy was deeper than any he ever brought her.
“ALEX! I Understand now…”
“What? Are you ok?”
“Everything!”
Alex watched as Evelyn started to glow, almost blindingly bright. In her bright form, the spheroid absorbed her until it became a perfect, bright sphere. In turn, the sphere was pulled into the cylinder replacing its dull whiteness to the same brilliant glow.
Alex ran toward it, seeing the surface revealed a hole that was deepening from the sphere. In desperation he reached in, trying to grab the sphere back. At touching it, he could almost feel her still. The sphere was impossibly heavy, he could not lift it out.
“YES! Alex. Come with me...Forward, not back. Come with me forward…”
Alex succumbed to her words. Alex pushed his hand against the sphere. The sphere grabbed hold and pulled him toward it, pulling him into the platform.
Everything was suddenly blindingly white. Everything was perfectly black. Alex thought he was blind. Until he saw the sphere. Saw it shrink to almost nothing as it ripped away his humanity, until all that was left of him was his flawed soul. He touched it, he understood then the ‘Everthing!’ Evelyn referred to. The sphere shattered in a bang, filling the void they now existed in with the energy Evelyn became. They started a new universe, together. They now understood how beginnings began. She now scattered giving raw energy its first types of form. He was to set the forms into motion, over eons, until he could slowly weaver her together again and they could share in the new universe they birthed.
“Let there be light!” Alex said, and laughed. He could almost hear Evelyn’s laugh echo his, within the newly forming cosmos.