Flash Fiction

Some time ago, long before the prehistoric era and the pyramid days when the earth was mostly flat, Sirah Younghusband was born. She was born, like the planet itself, out of seemingly nothing. Her early days were spent learning. A learning born out of curiosity. It was she soon learnt, a great pleasure. The more she learnt, the more she needed to learn. It became her addiction. She learned that there were few others like her. She watched the trees grow and fall. She learned their nature. Animals came to her, she tended them. The nature of the animals changed over time. Sirah did not change. She was a constant. So were all her kind. She slipped slowly around disaster and catastrophe. 

Eventually an animal appeared that outwardly resembled her and her few kind. One day, many eons after the like animal had first appeared she came upon an injured one. As she moved close to see if it would live, it spoke to her. 

At that moment the universe changed. Sirah and her kind were no longer alone.