"A New Beginning", part 5 of the series "After The Pandemic. A Fictional Story" by Karin Sawetz

"A New Beginning"
Part 5 of the series "After The Pandemic. A Fictional Story"
by Karin Sawetz
“I'm not better than corrupt systems. Yes, Sarah the stories you've heard are true. But the first step wasn't set by me," corrects grandmother Naomi with a wink in her eyes the story, "I was polite and responded appropriately.”  "You had no choice. The situation was provocative not only in your case,” explains Joyce the story of Naomi to her daughter Sarah. “There were millions of people thrown into circumstances which heated up the civil war arenas on streets worldwide and in the cyber world. The outbreak of a revolution was how it's said in German 'aufgelegt' or with other words: People saw it coming. The real fire starters were the corrupt justice and police systems. The most peaceful people were pissed off at the naughtiness of the state administration,” Joyce stands up and goes to the kitchen. "Can I open the bottle?” Naomi heads over, "Oh, yes it’s the Merlot. I take a glass too. It will be a long night. I don' t know when they'll arrive exactly."

Sarah listened carefully to the stories about the past told by her mother and grandmother. She felt like she was kept at a distance from the truth about a movement which has changed the world. "I can see no strategy behind the beginning of the revolution. It seems to me more as an answer to the criminal activities of the police and the failure of the justice system. Your role, grandma, is defined by your special talent to come in the right moment unpredictably into action. I think the unplanned surprises or better the 'no strategy' strategy made this revolution so successful." 
“You've learned your lesson,” jokes Joyce while making herself comfortable in the winter garden armchair. "I hope Demian and Emil don't follow the same 'no strategy' motto. From where did they enter the earth’s atmosphere?" 
"I'm not sure where the wormhole opened this time." Naomi asks the non-visible house assistant. "Germo, where and when opened the latest transfer wormhole? Locate the shuttle of my grandson and son." Germo the assistant speaks English with German accent taken from the voice of Sarah’s German teacher who spent some time at Naomi’s house; for Sarah’s native English speaker ears pure torture. “Naomi, the latest transfer wormhole opened two days ago at the Neowise shuttle station in a distance of 23.000 kilometres above Europe. The two are currently on their flight to earth and will land according to the shuttle in around three hours right in the garden."  "Neowise - what a name for a spacecraft station!" says Sarah with German accent imitating Germo and the assistant's slightly derogatory tone. Naomi continues her story about the pandemic in July 2020 and the Neowise comet. "It was a new beginning."


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