[05B] - Wilson

I went straight ahead on the first day. The day was clear and cool, the boat rocked just enough to make me fall asleep after lunch. During the second night, I saw a sky like no other. I thought I had seen stars in my life, but never a sea of ​​stars like that. I felt small, tiny inside that giant planet inside a solar system, in a galaxy in an infinite universe. It was me, Hayden, and no one else (maybe a few aliens in a distant galaxy). It was intimidating.

- I think in another life we ​​were astronauts - Hayden said looking distant, perhaps as intrigued by the sky as I am - Explorers of the universe ...

- Perhaps...

I looked over to where the voice was watching the void. My heart sank with the urge to touch him, to have him around like a real person.

- In a way, we are explorers of the new world ... - I sat up, stretching.

I was leaving the continent for the first time, I was an explorer in search of life. Who knows, I might find natives waiting for me?

I gave a dry laugh at my own thought. In that void, the most real person at my disposal was playing games, if she wanted to see me play, I would be disappointed.

I lay down again wanting to record that image. It was no longer as if everyone had disappeared, it was as if they had never even existed. I was overcome by the strange idea that humanity was just a delusion and that, perhaps, I had finally reached lucidity by failing to see it.