The invisible dragon perched on the roof of a white castle complex. His father the magician remained seated on his son's shoulders, cloaked by invisibility. "Are you ready, my excellent son?"
The dragon didn't really understand what was about to happen, but he trusted his father's magic and wisdom. "Yes, but..."
The old magician made a sign, indicating now was no time for excuses. "As we travel back through time, the shape of space will change around us. Two worlds will remain in parallel, but the supreme order of the Universe will bend."
The young dragon became wide eyed, because he could see the shift had already begun. The horizon no longer circled them. In one direction only, a short way down the hill, the world was dovetailing into a point. "How long will it stay like this, father?"
The Magician was observing the manifestation with glee. He had not seen magic like this in a long time. "Until she had passed beyond her fears, beyond oblivion. Sooner than you think."
Finally the shape of space seemed to settle, and the hill below the castle appeared to have become a triangular cliff, overhanging an endless void. The dragon looked at his father. "How far back in time have we come? And why?"
The Magician was studying the grounds near the castle, and his eyes lit on their visitor. "About 12 years, but we would have to ask her to get the exact date... and the answer to why..."
Father and son remained still as she marched tentatively down the hill. "Good father... why is she crying?"
The magician bid his son be silent with a wave of his hand.
She reached the edge of the cliff, and observed oblivion. With his magic eyes, the Magician saw waves of emotions radiating from her. The waves hit the edge of spacetime, and appeared to bounce back, reflected by the oblivion beyond the cliff edge.
The young dragon was unprepared for her next move. With tears streaming, she leapt from the cliff. Words blurted out direct from his heart. "No! Wait!"
Then he shook his invisible head with astonishment. Like the waves of emotions, she seemed to have leapt through oblivion, and landed facing the castle on the edge of the cliff. Both the dragon and the Magician heard her triumphant whisper. "I made it."
She smiled to herself, wiped the tears from her cheeks, and set off on her path away from the edge of oblivion. Space and time seemed to fall back into shape around her. The Universal supreme order reset itself, and the invisible dragon could see the horizon return to its place all around them.
After she had vanished out of view, he craned his scaly invisible neck around to question his father. Before he could speak, his father offered an incomplete explanation. "Remember I told you we would meet her again in an unknown future? It seems, as a first step, she had led us to a turning point in her past."
The young dragon's head was spinning from time travel, space distortion, and trying to comprehend the incomprehensible. "She was in a hospital bed, hooked to machines the last time we saw her. Now she is bending the dimensions of reality... How? Why?"
The old Magician's wisdom helped him find an answer, to a question that had no answers. "The Oracle asked you to share the journeys of people who live life as an adventure. We don't need to know how, or why... We just need to share her journey."
The girl from the edge of oblivion is alive and well
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