134 Shall We Go To Titan? (Part 3)

Early next morning the children woke up with great excitement.

Nanu and Zen had opted to go back to Utopia via the rock and water fall curtain or portal, as one would call it in scientific language. They would be taking back with them the crytals that they had come searching for. Of course, half of the Orbs would be going back with them.

The rest were excited to go further ahead to Titan, the satellite of Saturn, that was sustaining life. Inhabitants of Titan were originally Earthlings who had ventured there from the Earth's base on the Moon.

Earthlings had forgotten about such adventures into space that had occurred in the past, due to the various wars which had occured among countries . These wars had caused set back in our civilisations. It had resulted in loss of knowledge. Earthlings had hence, lost touch with the ancient space explorers. With time, these space explorers had stopped visiting Earth and preferred to expand their search into other areas of the Universe.

Everyone got ready by taking bath and changing into new clothes, and they soon assembled in the dinning room for breakfast. Aarvin, the old man with the beard and in charge of the guest house was there to welcome them.

"Wonder how these people know our size and how they can judge what sort of colours we like to wear?" Zoya thought.

Soon Sherpa joined them and called the attention of Aarnav as he wanted to talk to Aarnav.

"We all had a meeting last night and two of us, i.e. Nanu and Zen will be going back to Utopia. along with half of the Orbs. The rest of us, including myself, will go to Titan."

"But I would like to know when we can come back from Titan?"

How much time does it take to go to Titan and come back?"

"When we come back, will time have moved on or stopped as in Utopia? Will it in any way effect our entry back to Utopia?"

"You have asked a lot of questions and I will answer in order that you have asked."Aarnav replied.

"Firstly! Two of you, i.e. Nanu and Zen, want to go back to Utopia along with half the Orbs."

"There is no issue in that and that is fine by me and the Magical World too."

"However, you need to communicate with the Orbs about this decision and ascertain how many want to go back and how many want to proceed to Titan. After all, even Orbs have feelings."

"Secondly! When can you come back from Titan? Whenever you want to, as long as a ship is coming this way"

"Thirdly! the time taken to travel to Titian? Well....it took two probes from Earth 3 years and 2 months to reach Saturn, even though they traveled in the path that allowed them to use gravitational pulls of objects in the solar system to increase their speed."

"But the technology of Titan is much more advanced, beyond your imagination and they travel at warp speed."

You must have heard of that sort of speed in your movies etc. It is not imaginary but a reality here outside Earth. So....., reaching Titan is a matter of hours, like on Earth it would be akin to taking a flight of 10-12 hours duration."

"Perhaps you can ask the aliens yourself as they will be coming here shortly for another round of talks with the elders."

Fourthly, your time is continuing but that of Utopians and Earth has stopped. This was done by the Orbs with their energies and the crystals that they possess."

"Here, time is normal and you will age as per nature." When you go to Titan and say you spend a year there, all this is normal. But once you get back to Utopia and reach your city, it will be the time set for you to reach home. It will be like you were gone for 3-4 days but only you know that you had gone away for 3-4 months."

"Lastly! I want to add that the two children will reach Utopia before you that is definite but you will follow them into Utopia a few seconds later."

"Meaning that you will all tumble out of the portal just after them."

"Hard to believe, but that is how it is."

If you all have finished having breakfast can we call the Orbs and take a reality check on how many want to go back and how many want to go to Titan?"

"Of Course!"

Sherpa asked Zoya to call the Orbs. Actually, she could telepathically converse with the Orbs with great ease. Zoya called the Orbs and there was a lot of noise at the door. The door was opened and the Orbs floated in.

They all floated to the side of a wall. There were so many of them that they arranged themselves in lines, one above the other.

It seemed as if there were big shining white light bulbs piled up against the wall @ 20 in each row. Since there were 5 rows, it meant that there were a total of 100 Orbs.

"These guys are so organised,"said Zoya.

"I had asked all of them to come to the dinning room and stand here in an organised way so that we would know how many there were."

Zoya, please inform them that they need to take a decision and split up into two groups. One that will accompany us to Titan and the other that will go back to Utopia with Zen and Nanu along with the crystals. They can take time to consult each other in this matter." Sherpa said.

Zoya connected with the Orbs and conveyed to them that half of them need to proceed with us to Titan and the other half need to go back to Utopia along with Zen and Nanu as well as take the crystals back with them.

The Orbs started consulting each other. They communicated telepathically, with a lot of humming sound as they moved about consulting each other.

Soon, they had split up into two groups of 50 each. One group would go back and one group would proceed to Titan.

"The elders will be arriving shortly, we need to convey to them what is going on." Aarvin said.

"Please go to your dorms. I will call you all when needed. The Orbs and the children can leave. Sherpa and Zoya please remain seated."

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