She was smiling seeing him approaching with his bow on his shoulder. His blonde hair was shining brightly in the dark violet sky and his eyes were sparkling like two stragglers. She watched him and her heart was laughing filled with joy - she waited for this moment when they would meet again and play their silly childish games. "Why do i feel so happy and so lost when i see the light of his eyes ?" she asked herself many times - "This must be love... maybe is love... it looks like love... oh, anyway, why do i need to know ? I love him and that's the answer to everything." And she started to laugh while jumping around.
He kept walking with a serious expression on his face, thinking how beautiful she is with her twisted dark and silver hair - a mix of shades which looked like frozen waves radiating a silver light around. Her eyes were like a mirror reflecting the dark sky and a silver glance was beaming softly like two miniature moons as their iris. He felt like a child every time he looked at her... and he was sure that he will feel like that forever. "When did i fell in love with her ?" he asked himself time ago - "I loved her before she was born so I must have loved her forever because we die together every time we look to each other and we are born together every time we smile to each other." And there was no better answer for that question in his mind.
"What are we going to play today, my lovely brother ?" she asked while throwing her hands around his neck and kissing his cheeks loudly.
He blushed for some moments and the golden light surrounding his face became orange, He did not find the answer fast enough... she was already playing with his hair and yelling:
"You're sweet like a tangerine ice-cream, hihihi !" Her laugh echoed all over. He was tempted to pinch her nose, but instead he hugged her and put his mouth over her ear whispering:
"Smootchy smootchy smootch"... and he kissed her loudly on her ear, knowing that she doesn't like it, then he started to laugh. A hahaha echoed in the dark sky following the paths of the hihihi's around. She got mad as fast as the smootchy whispers reached her ear through his breath and she pushed him away with a frozen glance in her eyes:
"This won't stop here, i'll catch you soon. You'll see !"
He smiled watching her angry face - she was adorable and he loved to drive her mad from time to time only to see that lovely face of her.
"Today we are pirates." he declared.
She was surprised but liked the idea instantly:
"Pirates ? I like it ! Yesss... pirates... So who are you ?" she asked.
"I'm Captain Hook !"
"So... who i am then ? Can i be a captain too ?" she asked with pretense naivety.
"Yes you can... what do you say about Captain Hooker ? Hehehe"
She looked at him pondering the situation. Her mouth was drawing a funny half of a smile and her eyes were laughing like a funny joke was already prepared to take place.
"Well then... i'm Lady Hooker ! Hihihi"
He sneaked quickly behind her and took her in his arms and started to spin around with her while singing: "Mammy is holding a beam - lighting the sky of her dream, papa is haunting a shell to comb mammy's hair..." as he did everyday of their childhood. She felt lost in his arms and all that she wanted was the spin to keep forever and his voice to be always the one which will wake her up from her dreams...
He put her down gently, turned her around and whispered while looking straight in the silver beams of her eyes:
"Let the game begin !"
And they started to dance like two pirates on the deck of their ship, right in the middle of the foggy river were they've met. He was waving his bow and she was waving her sword, singing and laughing together.
"Yo Ho, Yo Ho! A pirate's life for me... Hihihi"
"Yo Ho, Yo Ho! A pirate's life for me... Hahaha"
The river bend in a smile carrying their laughs and words all over in the dark violet skies of the galaxies...
*
It was a busy morning in a little office at the Hat Creek Observatory. Danny was finishing his coffee when he finally managed to decode the signal which was received in the californian night. But as happy as he was about decoding it, as confused and puzzled about the message he was. "What on Earth could this message mean ?" he kept asking himself. He called his chief, and told him that the message was finally decoded. The voice of his chief was heard loud through the phone as if he stood right there in the office: "Well, what is the message saying ?" Danny mumbled in the phone :"Hihihi, sir."... Almost ten seconds of silence have passed until Danny asked with a small voice: "Sir, are you there ?" His chief answered with an irritated voice: "Of course I am here. I'll be there in two hours and we'll see what is this about." Danny ended the call and headed back to his monitors thinking along what was the meaning of the message.
In another office in a remote location somewhere in South Africa, two SETI engineers were puzzled by the message they received during the day. After hours spent on decoding it, all they got was a "Hahaha". A meeting was already scheduled in order to find a meaning for the message and the phones were ringing every ten minutes with updates about a possible declaration which will be made public as soon as the messages make a sense for everyone.
At the SETI Institute while the scheduled meeting was on going and scientists were scratching their heads about the meaning of the "Hihihi" message received from M37 and the "Hahaha" one received from M23, the phones started to ring almost simultaneously, After minutes of conversations in multiple languages, an update was shown on the screen in the meeting room and one of the senior research scientists made an announcement:
"While we were trying to understand the meaning of the two messages received yesterday, another message - now from M42 - was received hours ago through all the ATA stations. After being decoded, the message is composed by just one word: LOVE"
*
The Dreamnet alarm was beep-ing on the tablet.
He purchased an extended subscription to their services, so that he could receive updates in real time wherever he would be and see Ava's dreams whenever they are shaping in her sleep. He took out the tablet from his backpack and switched it on. There was no sound to be heard in the noise of the coffee shop where he was having his short black coffee so he kept watching the images received: a river of dust and stars crossing a dark sky, and something like two kids spinning in the waves ?
He started to sing while watching the little stars sparkling in the sky:
"Mammy is holding a beam - lighting the sky of her dream, papa is haunting a shell to comb mammy's hair..."
He closed his eyes and saw her face, smiling through the rebel twisted hair, the silver beams of her eyes and heard her laugh echoed in his mind:
"Yo Ho, Yo Ho! A pirate's life for me... Hihihi"
He smiled... then moved his head closer to the tablet and whispered in its microphone:
"Thank you ! I'll find you soon."
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