1ST Consultation – Transcript Form –not to be used without a governmental order.
Subject’s name (S): Joanne Lindy
Species: Human
Location: Colony 3249825 Queriso Detention
Favoured Spoken Language: English
Originally From: Earth, Australia
Date of Arrival: 46/345/apple 15
Subject Age: 15
Interrogator (I): F. Spidley
This documentation is not to be used for any use other than governmental. This order is in accordance with the Honoured Council’s Immigration Reports.
The said Subject acknowledges the use of recording the consultation as part of the said Subject’s health and general well-being.
The said Subject also states that the transcript may be used for research for governmental authorities.
I: Joanne. My name is Dr. Fred Spidley. I am to be your councillor for the duration of your stay here at Queriso Detention. Are you comfortable enough here?
J: Yes sir.
I: Can you tell me how long you have been here for?
J: One week since the Evacuation.
I: Ah, yes. The Great Evacuation of Earth. Others have called it the Great Walk. May I ask how you came to find the portals into our country?
(Subject remains silent and does not answer)
I: Do you know how you found the portals?
J: We- my family and I – we just followed everyone else.
I: Who were you following?
(Subject does not answer)
I: Who were you following?
(Subject does not answer)
I: I’m trying to help you, Joanne. The more co-operative you are the quicker the immigration process is. Why won’t you answer my question?
J: I don’t know who we were following. We followed the person infront of us. And then – traffic was very slow. You could walk along with the car- then a giant bird came down from the sky and- and-
(Subject falters and does not continue her sentence. First Consultation terminated.)
Six Weeks Ago.
Everyone in the world knew something big was happening. Governments of every country on Earth were keeping quiet. There were no bitter squabbles, no international pressure. The media were speculating –conspiracies, war, plague.
The more arcane was alien invasion.
But even they were clueless as to why all of the Heads of governments across the world- Prime Ministers, Presidents, Royalty, and Dictators- from every country gathered together, forgetting previous arguments and alliances.
There were no guards, no security. No sort of technology at all. They all gathered inside a tiny house in Belgium.
And in there they talked. The President of America spoke first.
His words brought some comments, but as everyone in the room had been briefed on the issue – had accepted that there was no other possibility other than that- had accepted that as the truth, the comments were mostly despair at the enormity of the problem, at the impossibility and sheer scale of the solution.
The Israeli president expressed his opinion next.
Then the New Zealand Prime Minister, the Australian Prime Minister, the Iranian President conveyed their beliefs on the subject.
The representative from Cuba stood and addressed the congregation.
“I have come here to discuss a solution to this problem- not listen to speeches about what we know is already going to happen. We don’t have any control over this! However, I require a solution to this to relay to my government. Do we simply tell the people that-”
“I agree.” Stated the Belgium King. “When I offered this place to discuss the Problem, I was under the impression that we would be examining the solutions.”
“We can’t just tell everyone in the world that in a few weeks a hole is going to appear in the sky! Its enough trouble trying to keep the astronomers mouths shut about the issue.” Said the Brazilian President.
“Therefore, as it was the Syrians that requested this meeting in the first place, perhaps we should let them talk?” suggested the English Prime Minister. “After all, we might have a solution if we listened to them.”
The Syrian delegation was the only delegation present with more than two people. Usually it was just the Head of State and an interpreter – English being the official language at the meeting. The Syrians had brought an astronomer, and two scientists- one specialising in nuclear physics and the other in the study of human evolution, development and cloning.
Their president spoke through his interpreter. “About ten years ago, I was approached by a group of scientists concerning the issues of black holes. They stated that they had seen one, had alerted higher authorise and had been told that they were deranged. They requested the use of a certain part of the country to create an object to counteract the force of the black hole. The head of the project, Dr.Collins here, wished to speak to you about it.”
Collins stood, slightly nervous. Surprisingly, he spoke with a clear American accent. “It might be hard to believe but there are these, well, I suppose you could call them portals or teleports, natural ones located all around the world. There are thousands of them. Over the past ten years my colleagues and I have studied these Gateways and in the event of the black hole – which we call Holly – appearing as a direct threat to Earth attempted to create a force field. However these attempts failed and we then went into seeing if these Gateways could be opened, where they led and if they had any effects on anyone travelling through them. After careful analysis we discovered that although there are thousands of Gateways in every country they all led to the same places. There are five of these otherworldly locations in total. The first and easiest one to find is a desert and from what we gather has giant birds of prey that haunt the skies and no natural resources. It seems to be a barren wasteland. The second location is a volcanic island. The third place is also a desert but an occupied one. Apparently the occupants live in the middle of the desert and visit earth regularly. They send their children to Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard. All types of places. They are extremely well educated, have a basic monetary system and have tourists on a regular basis. However, they seem to dislike Americans and if you wish to claim sanctuary you must have identification, a reason and skill. They have also made it clear that they will not take more than a certain number of people.”
“The fourth place is a beach like location with extremely, if I may say, very eighteenth centaury English people. When I visited them I was given the impression that this was only one country out of many on a continent. The fifth location was a forest which I believe soon led to a city.”
“Then two years ago, we created an object that could open up all the portals simultaneously. So we can now evacuate everyone off the planet.”
“What is your understanding of this new world?’ asked one of the many leaders. Collins didn’t recognise him.
The astronomer stepped forward. She spoke with a high squeaky voice. “I spent six months living in the Second World and have formed this impression. It is exactly like our world except that there are … magical creatures there.”
“Magical creatures?” mocked someone.
“Dragons and such- nymphs, Amazons, fairies, elves. Anyway. There are four Worlds in all – this is the First World, the world which the Gateways open up into is the second World. The Third World is the Past and the fourth world is Death.”
She stopped talking. Some of the leaders were openly laughing at her.
The Syrian King spoke again. “She speaks the truth. I have seen the evidence.”
The laughter stopped.
“You’ve explained the Gateways and worlds. And evacuation. But where are the portals?” asked the Australian Prime Minister.
“How do we get everyone else to know where the Gateways are?” asked the Israeli President.
The last scientist spoke. “You release this,” he held up a lot of test tubes filled to the brim with a yellow liquid. “Into all of your country’s water supplies. There is a chemical in this liquid which, if the right person drinks it, will ‘insert’ a map of all the portal locations into their mind.”
The scientists and the astronomers left the delegation and world leaders to discuss their options.
2nd Consultation- Transcript Form –not to be used without a governmental order.
I: Hello, Joanna. It’s nice to see you again. Do you remember where about we got to in our last discussion?
J: Yes sir. We were talking about the evacuation.
I: Yes. Now if I recall correctly, I asked you who you were following to find the portals.
J: I think so sir.
I: So. Who were you following?
J: The people infront of us, sir.
I: Why?
J: well, they’re not going to go to a place that’s going to kill them, are they?
I: Yes, I suppose not. Who were they following?
J: Why don’t you ask them? The person infront of them, I guess.
I: On the journey to the portal, what did you feel like?
J: Sad, confused, worried, and angry.
I: Why?
J: Because I was leaving my home, my friends. I didn’t really understand what was going on. That confused and worried me. I was angry because no-one would tell me what was going on.
(Subject seemed to get upset during this part of the consultation.)
J: Then a bird – a horrible, horrible bird- comes out of nowhere and starts eating everyone outside of the car. And there’s a kid my age screaming ‘to get inside the car or the birds will get you.’ And everyone was screaming and running around the highway, and the road that appeared from nowhere, and the birds got to them too. And people are smashing windows, pulling others out of the cars to get inside them so that they won’t be eaten. Others started praying- that didn’t do anything for anyone. And-
(Subject begins to ‘cry’ and appears to traumatised to continue.)
I: You said that a road appeared from nowhere.
J: Yeah. That was pretty cool. There was this Range Rover, over in the far left lane, and the police and army are trying to get it to move into the right lane. But they stayed in the far left lane until the lane ended and then they turned left. Everyone was like- okay that’s crazy- and then a road appeared infront of them.
I: Who were they following?
J: Them? They weren’t following anyone. It was them we were following.
I: How did they know where to go?
J: I don’t know. All I know is we were following them and she –
I: She?
(Subject stays silent and does not answer.)
I: Who is she?
(Subject does not answer and consultation is ended.)
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