Mordred 16.2

The New Realm

“This weapon has more range than ours.” Gabriel looked to the rifle on his arms. “They called it the SVD. It’s older in design but it’s still an effective weapon.”

The SVD Dragunov was Russian made and designated as a marksman rifle. The shooter to be classified as a marksman was able to shoot a man sized target at five hundred metres with a probability of neat kill at two hundred metres. 

“Unfortunately, we cannot use it as we like here.” Gabriel had volunteered to skin the hare I caught. It was easy with my crafts when I used the wind to slow it down and the earth to create the narrow holding area. “It would have brought down the elves on us.”

 “No offence meant.” Gabriel smiled at Leggins who was sorting out the fruits which he had collected. “You kind were not so kind to our presence.”

“None taken.” Leggins smiled back. “We heard of your kind but we have rarely met.”

“I can assure you that the ….Angels is expert at hiding from the prying looks. We have been around long to know where to stay hidden.” Gabriel replied. “Even in this land you called the Divide.”

I shuffled on my feet at the restlessness inside me. One hour ago, we were at each other throats and then during dusk, we were all seated before the camp fire. We met Gabriel in the forest but he was soon to convince us of his alliance. He sought the Fallen to bring them back to their rightful path. It was an uneasy alliance between the five of us, but I made the decision for them.

“Gabriel, tell us of the Fallen.” I hit on the issue which was on our mind. Leggins glared at me as if I had over step my line. If was him who told us of the Fallen, and it was also him who exposed the Angel. Gabriel stopped in his task and looked at me.

“We are not the Fallen. We are the Angels, and we sought them….I stand corrected. We watched over them so that they will not cross the line of their authority.” Gabriel cleared his throat and then continued. “We were once all together as Angels. We are the Guardians of the Dimensions for which here is one of the seven layers.”

Gabriel looked at all of us and then smiled.

“Perhaps we needed a more pleasant place to listen to this tale.” Gabriel voiced out and then waved his right hand. We found ourselves in a different forest or it was an orchard.

“Welcome to Eden. Our garden in the Dimensions.” Gabriel announced to us. “Not many come here.”

The garden was beautiful with the bed of flowers of multitude colours. It was not that but there were the flowing streams and the enchanting fountains of varied designs. The garden was also filled with trees which were bearing fruits and there were the goblets of wine at the base of the trees. That was not all for we were in a dimension where gravity was defied. We were have no flat plateau which our feet rest on but we could stepped on different levels be it vertical or diagonal yet we are secured in the footing. It was like walking on a plateau with no set flooring or ceilings or walls, but you could be standing up and yet another looked at you as if you were walking on the ceiling.

It was a multi-dimensional plateau.

“It’s impossible.” Leggins called out while he grabbed the tree trunk and yet he was seen standing upside down to me. Rumpel was leaning on another tree trunk and yet he was seen diagonal to me.

“Yes, you are all in the Garden.” Aladdin was the calm one while he sat down by the tree trunk with the goblet of wine at his lips. “I have been into one like this when my Guardian took me there.”

 I looked at Gabriel who was opposite me in the plateau and at ease with the looks of things. The Angel strolled over to my tree trunk with his feet stepping over the branches.

“This is the concept of dimensions known to some of you.” Gabriel smiled. “They named it the Theory of Everything. It’s the belief that the universe is made up of ten dimensions; it’s an attempt to reconcile the standard model of particle physics with the existence of gravity.”

“I will make it simple for you. Dimensions are simply the different facets of what we perceive to be reality. There are three dimensions that surround us on a daily basis; the sight of the distance, the view on the sides, and height of what our sight can see up and down.” Gabriel motioned with his arms. “Beyond these three visible sights which are also dimensions, the one with knowledge believed there are many more. These different aspects are what we perceived as the Universe.”

I nodded as once Merlin told me that we lived in a bigger realm called the Universe. We are only a speck on that level. It was mind boggling then but I was made to listen to the old master rave on about it for hours. It may awe Aladdin then but for me it was all fables and tales to amuse the young ones.

“These are the basic forces of nature, and all the elementary particles contained within it. To them there are ten dimensions. The first dimension is a description of distance as measured by the straight line, which exists only in terms of length. Once you add to that the second dimension, the height, you get an object that becomes a two dimensional shape.  The third dimension involves depth and gives all objects a sense of area and a cross-section. Your body is a good reference for the third dimension.” With that Gabriel grabbed his own arms to show the concept. He then waved out his hands as if he was grabbing at some items in the air.  

“Beyond these three lies the other seven dimensions which are not seen by us but which can still be perceived. It has a direct effect on the Universe and reality as we know it. The fourth dimension is time, which governs the properties of all known matter at any given point. It’s what you may term as now. Along with the three other dimensions, knowing an objects position in time is essential to plotting its position in the universe. The other dimensions are where the deeper possibilities come into play, and explaining their interaction with the others is where things get particularly tricky for us too.” Gabriel stopped at then. He looked to our faces ad registered the looks form the bore to the bewildered expressions. He was to speak on whether it was on the same issue but Aladdin was insistent to know more.

“Okay, I will explain more. There are the fifth, sixth and seventh dimensions are where the notion of possible worlds arises. It’s in there we would see a plane of possible parallel worlds, where we could compare and position all the possible universes with same or differing conditions. Then there is the eighth dimension again gives us a plane of such possible universe histories, each of which begins with different initial conditions and branches out infinitely.” Gabriel had then used a stick to draw the straight line on the ground. He then moved the stick to different points on the line and made a marker there.

“In the ninth dimension, we can compare all the possible universe histories, starting with all the different possible laws of physics and initial conditions.” Gabriel drew a parallel line with different markers.

“In the tenth and final dimension, we arrive at the point in which everything possible and imaginable is covered.” Gabriel then drew interconnecting lines between the two parallel lines.

“That was your vortex doing and drew you here.”