The Nomad Chronicles

I open a portal, covered with numbers. I jump in. I am in a world covered by numbers. The numbers flow over me. They feel like wind water fire earth... bugs, fear, permission, anxiety, jubilation.

I am in a beautiful mountain valley. Suddenly a storm appears, and the sky turns violet black. A torrential rain pours down on me. Lightning strikes me, but I keep walking. My clothes are smoldering. For some reason, I feel grief. I begin crying. I am filled with rage, shame, and fury. Flame bursts forth out of me. I turn the rain into steam. I shoot lasers at individual rain drops. All of them. They explode into steam, and a sonic boom makes the fabric of time and space waver. I fly to a temple at the top of a hill. I kick the doors open.

I see the Number Man from Mega Man meditating within. WHAT THE FUCK.

He is levitating.

He turns to me, and stands up. He never stops hovering a few inches above the ground. He juggles numbers. I then notice his face is a question.

How are you a question, O god of Numbers? I thought you would be a zero, or maybe infinity.

Oh, you pugnacious fool, he laughs mockingly. Don't you know that nothing and everything is actually the same thing?

I am beyond numbers. Though everything in this universe is numbered, and everything is coded and all surfaces are coated with numbers on their souls... Even so, not some, but all have numbers running across the surface of their soles. Don't be ashamed or enraged, just take a chill pill Dr. Phil, and let me fill you in on something: Mathemagicians are just the quick seeking truth beyond the presently held view of empirical reality. Numbers don't seek, numbers are. But, I am the moving numbers. I am the interdimensional number. I am the immeasurable. I am soul, and emotion. I am what can never be codes. They point their numbers at me, and I just flow, the numbers flow over me. They can never penetrate my soul, oh, because I am the Number God. I am the Master of Infinity and Nothingness. I have transcended dimensions. I am aware of all my existences simultaneously. See, in that one, we are mother and tiger cub, mommy. Oh yeah! Life will always be especially strange in a particular dimension. That is because it is far away from you on the lemniscate, but I have found a way to exist in the zero point, the center of the lemniscate. I am the smallest particle in the universe. I am the oldest particle in the universe. I am what is left of the Big Bang. I have the power to trigger another Big Bang, should this universe ever cease to exist. I access the Infinite Nothing.

I am the Number God, I am soul and emotion. At this point, the number god changed into many forms, and the temples changed with his appearance. A great Chinese demon, a dragon, a god, a merman, a war, a plant, a solar system, a universe, a frog god...

I am infinite and eternal. You can never measure me. I am life and death.

I fell to my knees, and began weeping. I was overwhelmed with emotion. I felt like I was being born and dying in the same instant. Pain and agony ripped through my soul, yet I felt a profound peace. I screamed and stood up. The rain poured down. I was outside again. No, I burned the temple with fire. I painfully turned into a tree. It felt like being struck by lightning. The crazy Number God did this, that bastard!

I forced a root into the ground. It felt like I was dying as I pushed it through the rocky soul. I felt a magma pocked with my root, and burrowed into it. The lava flowed up my root, and burst out the side of a mountain. It felt like my arm was on fire. The volcano grew. More places erupted, and turned the rain into steam.

The Number god turned into a water elemental in the shape of a flying tiger. I turned into a giant magnet tiger. I sucked iron to me, and shot tiny bits of rock at the Number God. He reformed. Then, I charged the iron with fire, and shot it at him. He burst into steam. He roared and me, and rushed at me like a wind, but I exhaled hard, and right when he got to me, I inhaled him. I held him inside me.

He giggled, "Now you see you are a Bhudda within."

I exhaled, but only an image came out of my breath.

"I remain within, as I always have."