Baby Market
After parting with Chai, Airi hurried to meet the child. The two children were so lovely. Airi boiled artificial seawater the color of abalone shells and put the colorful water into a milk bottle. The artificial seawater of Mars resembled seashells. It was very shallow and blue, and it seemed to hold a rainbow. The year 2205 was a little different from the machine civilization that people imagined. It was a society dominated by nature and art. So, on another planet, people drew sea water, felt the valley, and considered the mounds of solid hill as a place of grace.
In the early morning, in Mars, like a newspaper delivery boy who delivers newspapers every day, the streetlight boy lights up the lights one by one like a candle. When the sun opens its eyes dimly, the village becomes warm, and like a flower bud opening, the lights turn on one by one in time with the child’s footsteps. Then, as if the distant mountains were covered with white snow, the snowflakes seem to have fallen on our heads, and inside, the ding-ding sound resonates, as if each light has a note, as if it is stepping on a melody.
When the child brought the torch to the house where the village elders lived, the red sun rose over the mountain. The time was very precise, so it did not disturb people's lives at all. A dust storm blew in the peaceful planet's day. A child wearing a wide-brimmed hat stood under a long light and created a sculpture with dark shadows. When the sunlight shone through and the shape was complete, he smiled with satisfaction. There wasn't a single insect in sight, but the only sound that seemed to be the wind was howling in the extreme silence.
The moment all children were adopted, the best fairy tales for children became religious books. The children grew up reading stories about God as fairy tales. All the mothers took care of their children, and all the children were born in water. The children learned to swim on their own and started walking on land. The mothers could hear the voices of their fetuses and gave generous help until the children who lost their memories developed sophisticated language skills. If there is any religion in the world, it is a gift made by the parents.
Airi suddenly picked up an apple that had fallen on her nightstand and smiled. The apple was an incubator containing the children's genetic information. Airi just had to find the owner of the apple. The fastest thing in the universe was light, and people were concerned about the amount of light, not the speed of light. And they used light, not numbers, as a code. They calculated the amount of light to send to Andromeda by considering the amount of light lost during travel and used that as a standard. Airi unintentionally called Leh.
Helicopters have a seat under the propeller, but Leh was structured in the opposite direction, as if the seat was made on top of a drone. The seats were round like water droplets on the window, and sometimes they were painted red. The red Leh had a passage and trachea that automatically supplied oxygen to the inside and allowed breathing. The transparent Leh was a little lighter because it had to be ridden with an oxygen tank attached, and it was possible to see the outside at a glance, as if flying on a broom or a bird.