A short novel by Sergio Flores and published by SAFT.Industries, set in the universe of Entity One; this time, following the life of Hannah, a girl whose habit for questioning things takes her to search for the lost city of Neo-T.
Hannah leads a comfortable life in the Colony, but her mind is restless. Why is everybody so determined to forget the past? To forget, and erase from existence the events that led to the Fall, and later, to the techno-religious Colony? How long can this seemingly peaceful situation continue, full of rules, and empty of innovation? So when the the Temple approves her Quest, she determines to leave the Colony at once, and go see for herself the ruins of Neo-T, the most important human city before the Fall.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t think this ‘First Entity’ or whatever is called, exists these days, if it ever did.”
Hannah took a second to let that sink in the mind of her Youth Caretaker Instructor, before continuing.
“Look, I have the utmost respect for other people’s beliefs and all, it’s just that, personally, I have never, ever, been contacted by this supposed *Guide* or *All-knowing spirit of the Net*, or whatever, and well, for all I know, I’d rather not put my money on the existence of some computer ghost.”
The instructor’s face was tight with anger.
Hannah kept talking anyway. “Well, humans have been believing weird things for all time, right? Like, I don’t know, I’ve been loading up on human history for some time now, and like, there were these people like two or three thousand years ago, that really, seriously believed in the life and deeds of some supernatural beings with human bodies and heads like animals who had some sort of mysterious influence over both the natural world and the human affairs. And then they built special buildings for them, with statues of these beings, called gods, by the way, to pray to them and offer them various gifts deemed desirable by them, in order to gain said god’s favor and have good crops, or wealth or wet hot sex, or whatever.
“Then there was another new god, the one and only true one, who came to banish all the previous gods and had some other ideas about what was right and good. And if you ask me, these whole Keeper guys are just more of the same, a new incarnation with modern technology, who instead of claiming their god is out there, well, their god is still out there, only that now we’re talking about an electronic construct, called the Net.”
The instructor remained silent for a few seconds.
“Hannah,” he said finally, in a tightly controlled voice, “you should know better than to criticize the Keeper’s texts. You can leave the class now.”
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