Lost In Time (Druig)

Chapter 5: Earth Skills

(An education that there's inherent value in learning and understanding the skills of how to live in the natural world)

Mesopotamia, 5000 B.C.

Going back into time can be a dangerous thing. It's called time travel for a reason, and you're not always certain if it actually works, but only in movies when they want certain things to happen and still there will always be flaws in a system.

Even the slightest change to the past would lead to an unrecognizable future.

Only the Eternal didn't really brought me back in time. Not really. He only took me inside his memories because I've asked him to, and that's why it felt like I was flying through time just a moment ago.

In the meantime I'm trying to compose myself, because the ground underneath my boots are kind of rocky, and it's definitely another atmosphere then it just was. It's a kind of sand, but this is rougher than the beach in the Amazon.

But that's not the only reason; I'm actually surrounded by the first humans on this planet called Earth when I start to open my eyes, along with their small cabins of a home. However, you wouldn't really call it cabins. Just huts, I guess.

With seeing this moment happening, I know he brought me all the way back to the first ever civilization of this timeline. It's the first because the regular flooding along the Tigris and the Euphrates made the land around them especially fertile and ideal for growing crops for food.

It's history is marked by many important inventions that changed the world, including the concept of time, math, the wheel, maps and even writing. However, Mesopotamia also expanded over the years, which means they had to learn everything themselves.

And for me right now, it feels like I am lost in time.

However, even if I'm standing right here, watching this particular period of time happening, I know I'm invisible for the people whom live here on this small land. It might feel like my body is here psychically, but that's something that's just impossible, which means our minds are only here.

Our psychical bodies are still stuck in the Amazon, knowing Druig can still see everthing happening because it's his memories. Everything he remembered, I'm seeing right now.

As I started to scan the place with my eyes, I see the first humans on this planet did live a quiet life like we do at the moment. We grow our own food, catch some food like fish, and yet this quiet life soon started to be one big mess.

There's a reason he brought me back to this place.

The fighting started when the first Deviants came to this planet, as they let chaos erupt in this small village, trying to kill the first humans in their paths without being able to evolve. They ripped some of them apart, horrifying to see at first, but as soon as possible, the fighters of the Eternals tried to prevent this chaos from errupting even more as their leader Ajak told them to.

I don't know where this moment came from so fast, making my heart skip a beat for a moment to see all of this happening, but I know Druig's mind is probably a mess right now because of his memories; he can't probably think of every single detail from his past.

"I've heard that."

His voice rang through my head all of a sudden, making me stumble in my place while the memory still continued itself, and somehow his voice still made me smile for some reason; I believe he's also good at multitasking to be honest.

I decided not to say anything back as I don't know how, and just watching the Eternals kick some Deviant's butt. Unfortunately, some of the men weren't lucky enough to stay alive, as they're only five fighters, and like three or four big monsters.