Ama fell in love with her creation and moved from Galactic Center to incarnate within it as Earth, to experience being as a planetary life form. This act is unprecedented in the timeline of this Universe and begins a chain of events that take life and consciousness in a completely new direction. In this, the Universe delights.


Part 1
Ocean Calls
Chapter 1 The Boat

Attention!
There was a loud slam, then a creaking that tugged at Diamonds consciousness. In her dream she was swimming fast, deep under the sea. She swung her hips in rhythmic pulses and shot through the water like a spiraling jet. Diamond sensed the light of the sun, or moon, far above, a glowing disc that sent its light shifting through the depths in grand crystalline towers, she shot forward through them. Her lithe form was painted by the glow of the beams dancing on her opalescent skin, lighting her up, making her flicker through the water. Every combination of light bent upon itself in parallels and crosses on the young girls aquatic body. She dove and felt the rush of warmth flow down her sides as she exhaled the sea.

Crack!
thud....wet sounds,
is that dripping?
Diamond was called urgently out of her deep sleep. As she returned to the waking world, she felt water lapping at her hand which was draped off the bed towards the floor. With tingling muscles and a dream slipping fog she came to realize that the water touching her fingers was a call to panic, that it definitely should not be there. She scrambled her feet to the floor and wiped her eyes clear with salty fingers. She was the first to wake, and the first to stand in the cabin that was quickly filling with seawater.
We're taking on water, she thought, wake them, where's the jackets?
Her mother called out suddenly in the dark, "Jim! Wake up!
Jim!
Jim! We're sinking!"
"Mom!" Diamond yelled, "what should I do?"
Diamonds father awoke and ran to the deck of their small Tartan sailboat, looking around them he saw debris in the water, but the air was still, and the ocean was moving in the strangest way. What happened? Why were they taking on water? Where was the dingy?
By now Gold was awake too, his little feet dangling off his hammock and hands clutching a plastic dinosaur, it was making RAWR sounds as the boat began to spin. Jim steadied himself in the churn and realized there was a crack running the length of the boat bow to stern, the electronics near the tiller had been smashed by the boom that had drooped too low and was now lazily swinging over the water. No radar, he thought, send a mayday….the radio!
Diamond and her mother Lee gathered life jackets from compartments under their bunks. Scrambling, Lee gathered her son out of his hammock and tried to get him into his jacket. With a jerk, the boat spun faster now and they were thrown to the sides of the hull, it lurched sideways as books and dishes began to fall on them. They covered their heads and tried to right themselves against the pitching hull.
Reaching for the radio handset near the helm, Jim lost his grip on a backstay that broke suddenly and with a loud crack, he and the mast together fell into the ocean.
"JIM!" Lee cried, hearing the violent sounds.
Diamond still had her fathers jacket in her hand and pulled herself up the ladder to the deck, her mother close behind her. The starboard rails of the boat were in the water now and she was looking into the deep, into a whirlpool gaining momentum. Further out, just beyond them, the sea was calm.
Strange.
She saw silver flashes in the calm at the edge of the gyre, flickers of light gleaming. The sea everywhere else was black, the night was black, and the stars formed a faint dizzy spin of circles above as their boat was tugged faster. Diamond tried to steady herself holding the hand grips on the roof above the cabin and ducking under the swinging boom. She tried to focus past the edge where it was still while their accelerating spin picked up speed, pulling at her.
Where is he? He should’ve come up.
Something was moving just beneath the surface. Looking for her father in the water she caught sight of a blue-white glow coming from the depths beneath them.
Something is under us!
Diamond spotted her father and a glowing orb that was lit up like an underwater moon, moving incredibly fast. She could see her father’s dark form outlined against the shining orb, it seemed to have attached to him. It looked like he was being absorbed by it.
Her heart began to pound.
What is that?
She watched as her father was taken by the glowing orb and they descended deep into the spiraling waters. The light flickered as it grew smaller, and then was gone.
Lee was yelling. Diamond, unable to answer at first, was stunned and staring into the depths. She struggled to find words to answer her mom....
"He's gone," was all she could say.
Lee was now at her daughters side glaring into the center of the impossible whirlpool incredulously. Their boat corkscrewed around in a tightening circle and they began to realize that they were likely soon to be joining Jim in the depths.
Gold started to cry out from the cabin and was fumbling with the clasps on the child size life jacket his mother had been helping him into when Jim had fallen. Diamond wondered if it would be any use, the boat was groaning wildly and they would soon be consumed by the depths.
What was that light? Where did it take my dad?
She was in shock and was jolted by her mother yelling,
“Diamond! Help your brother, I have to put out a mayday.”
Searching, Lee found the radio handset cable dangling from the smashed box, but the handset itself was gone. Somewhere in the depths it was still held in Jim's immobilized hand.