A reply to: One letter from Dusk and Another letter from Dusk
Hi, Dusk.
I started a letter to you, and then I got your other letter. Now I’m confused.
Your first letter had me a little bit sad because of what you wrote about your grandpa dying. I haven’t had anyone die in my life. But I have an old friend. I asked my dad and he said that my old friend Jasper is old enough to be my grandpa. Does that mean he might die?
Then your next letter made me happy and also confused. What do you mean that time has become a balloon and now it no longer exists?
I didn’t want to ask my old friend because I have an idea what it means and I didn’t want him to get sad. So I went to the reading room and I looked in the books.
One book says, “you’re spread out in time, like you’re spread out in space.” This means that all time is there at once. Then another book said, “eternity is timelessness.” One book says, “there’s no time in heaven, and no space either.”
You wrote, “Death is not the end for you.”
But you wrote me a letter. You can’t be… you know.
Oh. Now I know why you have that special mailman. He goes through time and space and to the place where there’s no time and no space.
So, I can still write to you, right? I know that you won’t be able to write back, because we need time to be able to write.
But I can write you. And I bet that if I feel every word really hard, you will get the message. And maybe your special mailman can still deliver it, but if there’s no time, you won’t have time to read it!
I feel sort of sad and sort of weird. So I will write you like normal.
I’ll tell you about my very most fun day.
It was with my brother.
I had to go to the State Park way over in Oasis Springs. That’s a whole two-hour train ride! Mom couldn’t go and Dad couldn’t go. So Devante said, “I’ll take you, squirt.”
When we first got there, one of his girlfriends came up to him. Ugh! Now I knew why he wanted to take me there!
So I said, “See ya!” and I ran off to find stuff.
I can’t tell you all about it because it’s part of that secret mission. Let’s just say it was really fun and really hard and I did great!
Then when I was so tired, I went back to the Visitor’s Center, and there was my brother, talking to the park gardener. It was so awesome.
We learned all about how to make candy from prickly pear fruit!
Then we went out to the picnic table and got hamburgers that this nice guy cooked up to share with everybody! He was really nice and really funny, and the hamburgers were delicious!
He said they didn’t taste like elephants, and I said I wished they did, and he said, “No, you really don’t.”
I think it was the very best day I’ve ever had.
You know why?
Devante said, “Hey, kid. This was fun! We should take more trips together!”
My big brother is really neat.
Do you think you can see him from where you are?
Can you still see? Can you hear my words when I think them?
OH! I wanted to also tell you about one of my new collections! I collect other things, too, but I can’t talk about them because, you know, that secret mission thing.
But this collection is just for me and I can talk about it all day long! It’s these little funny guys all dressed up like a mad scientist and an Indian princess and a girl from anime and a little glasses guy. They’re really cute and funny. I would send you one if I could. But since there’s no time and no space where you are, I don’t think they could fit.
Instead, I’ll think of them really hard, and you can see if you get the picture, OK?
I think I will keep writing to you. Is that OK?
You’re one of my best friends.
I was going to write that I missed you, but just as the idea came into my head, I got the feeling of you smiling, so now I think I’m sitting inside your smile. And I don’t miss you at all! Can you feel me sitting there?
I’ll write again!
Love,
Your friend,
Tazer1541z
p.s. Now that you are somewhere nowhere, I will tell you my real name. It is Giuliana Kruse.
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