Sunday, February 3, 2019

Pets left behind

You think they will evolve one day? Dess asked? Go laughed " they're meant to be pets! Next, You will expect them to speak! Making them aware of their nakedness and clothing them is all fine for playacting but these are animals. They will never be civilised."

Dess sighed and kept putting on the new outfit she got for Eve. Eve was frisky and not very cooperative. Moving about quite a bit, but not getting away totally. Dess remembered the day she had got Eve from the shelter. Thin and frail. With big saucerlike eyes.  Now that she had filled out, her eyes seemed not as big. Still her neck was turning back to the window. Actually it was a glass wall. The whole house was built of glass. Dess knew what Eve was thinking of. She smiled. Eve was fertile, very fertile. She had boundless sexual energy.

Like many Eve had taken to wearing clothes after some adjustment, but Dess  was sad that the rest of pets went around without any clothes on. Just a leash. Nobody else minded, thats how things are. Dess had to keep reminding herself that these were not her children but animals and an entirely different race. Intelligence of a 5 year old but their emotional intelligence was far higher. Sometimes Dess felt that Eve was the one who loved her the most. Her rudimentary efforts at communicating were yapping around while jumping all over Dess. She loved it.

But it was time for Eves walk. Dess put the mask on her own face. Slender face on a slender frame. this pollution is getting too much. Though it didnt affect Eve or any other animal. But all the people had to now wear a mask to go out. The earth's environment was changing too rapidly. With all the technology, the worlds leaders could do nothing. Most didn't even seem to get the seriousness of the threat.

Eve on the other hand was immediately energised when out. She strained at the leash till finally tired of holding back. She pranced around the garden and then went inside the secret place. Once inside Dess knew she wouldnt come out anytime soon. What is the blazes was she upto there? Dess knew all too well didnt she?

Once she had crawled inside and shone a light in the dark stinky place. But in the beam she saw Eve with another animal. In the light they froze. And Dess felt like she was intruding. Besides, with animals who knew what they would do if interrupted like this. Dess retreated and after that day never followed Eve inside.

Despite her mask Dess felt tired today. Suddenly she was dizzy. 'Mr. Go' she shouted but immediately fell...the next thing she knew she was laying in a room had a gas mask on and health workers were looking at her. They hadn't seen that she was conscious and she pretended to still be out.

"It's getting bad. Across the world.  We are running  short of the masks and in any case they cannot handle the load, the pollution is too much." Dr. Ravi was saying. Mr. Go had his hand on Dess forehead but his eyes were closed. He was trying to channel his Oneness, Dess knew.

Dess's thoughts suddenly went to Eve and she panicked what will happen if she comes out and finds her not there. She will panic. She cannot fend for herself. Dess calculated that she would have to stay in the hospital for at least two weeks. "Eve?" She asked Go. Just getting the word out tired her more. But she struggled to not sleep before hearing Go's reply. " With Maia. It's the best i could do in the short time. Don't worry she will be there when you return."

Dess worried. Maia is a pet fiend. She is extra nice to other people's pets and she would do her best to get Eve to like her. And Eve had already spent time with her and liked her. But she knew Eve would not love anyone like she loved her. Maybe Go. But no one else.

Things happened very quickly after that.

Dess was now old but she remembered how they had all decided that they had used up all the sustenance the planet had to offer. A new planet was found. It could sustain them. It was in the same solar system in another dimension. So far they could only communicate with the teams that had found it. But could not bring them back. The second team had confirmed that it could easily sustain life and the captain had insisted they should all leave immediately.

The leadership dithered till they finally decided when the President's wife died due to pollution. Some decisions need sacrifice.

D Day arrived and one by one thousands of giant spaceships were leaving the earth. With each ship the news was getting better. The air is as clean. Initially their bodies after decades of pollution went into some kind of shock but they adjusted quickly. and Dess was excited but her happiness at finding a new home was tarred by the Stipulation. They could not take their pets. All pets had to be left on earth.

Some who tried smuggling pets with them were caught and incarcerated. As a result the interplanetary immigration officers became stricter. All passengers were subject to a biowash to prevent contaminating the new planet.

Dess knew Eve would have to stay behind. She thought that she could help make it easy for Eve as much as possible, so she left enough food, pictures in that cave of hers, because she felt that as soon as she left Eve would be in that cave. Some kind of wild genetic coding.

It's been years since she left. And while it was all as clear as yesterday, Dess wished she could see Eve again. But she was probably dead by now. Pets had approx 20 percent of the lifetime as people. Except the turtles. She missed the animals. The pets. Earth had become inhospitable but had plenty of animals. Here it was beautiful and healthy but monotonous.

But sometimes when lying down before she fell asleep. She would imagine Eve running towards her.

Golden hair, bounding on her two legs, her forearms all synchronised with her legs. As beautiful as a horse in full gallop. Golden hairless skin and flat stomach. Small nose, red lips, big eyes, she had breasts too later on and when she ran they jiggled. It was funny and awkward at the same time.

Sometimes behind her the animal from the cave was also there. Same body but thicker, hairier and with a funny mane around his face. Most of the time he would be playing or scratching his private parts. Like a giant ape but not as strong.

On Otherearth, Dess often stared into the night sky, wondering what happened to Earth and its beautiful creatures. But had global warming not increased nitrogen by so much and reduced carbon dioxide by so much, they would still be there.

With a sigh she would turn to her side and fall asleep. Life!

Quateel Ahmad
2 Feb
2019