A few days later Hilda Muller was sitting at her desk when Michael Muller rushed into her office short of breath. Hilda was shocked to see him and spoke:
- Michael? What’s happening? Why are you here? Weren’t you meant to lead a secret group to the Divine Dimension trying to establish an alliance with the Zetans?
Michael:
- I was. As agreed, we kept our distance, studying the portals from afar. When the last Martian Dominion troop had entered the portal, we set a 12-hour timer as we intended to move in the day after using our cloaking devices, trying to move past the Martians unnoticed.
Hilda:
- I know the plan. We planned this together. What happened, Michael?
Michael:
- When we woke up the following day, the portal had disappeared.
Hilda:
- Disappeared? We have tried to find a way to close those damn portals for years without any luck. How did this happen?
Michael:
- Well. You know those four rooms with switches in the Central American, Pacific, Asian and Egypt pyramids?
Hilda:
- Yes, we had our best scientists working on it for years without any success.
Michael:
- Well, I suspect that Melchior got the sequence to close the portals from the same monster that had Keila Eisenstein open them in the first place.
Hilda:
- Rangda!?
Michael:
- Yes.
Hilda:
- Which proves that he didn’t go there to fight Rangda but to join her?
Michael:
- Oh s**t, what do we do now?
Hilda:
- There isn’t much we can do. We cannot send our troops to help the Zetans with the portals closed, and we can’t figure out how to open the portals. All that’s left is praying.
Michael:
- Praying? I didn’t know you spent your time on superstitious Bronze Age nonsense?!
Hilda:
- I didn’t use to. But after all, I have seen and experienced in the last few years I don’t know what to believe any more.
Hilda suddenly broke down and started crying. Michael was puzzled to see her this way as she usually managed to keep her calm. He decided to ask her:
- What’s happening? Why are you crying?
Hilda:
- This is all my fault!
Michael:
- No, it’s not. You did what you had to do. Our capital and the lives of millions were at risk. You had no choice but to give in to Melchior’s demands.
Hilda:
- I didn’t talk about the last month. I could have acted 18 months ago.
- 18 months ago, Metatron, the leader of Eden came on a surprise visit with his toddler daughter Sabina.
Michael:
- Oh, I wasn’t aware of this. Why didn’t we both participate in this crucial diplomatic meeting?
Hilda:
- Because I didn’t anticipate the meeting to be important. Eden is a marginal fringe world. I am surprised that I even accepted their request to meet them, to be honest.
Michael:
- But you did meet them, so what happened?
Hilda:
- Well, I had expected Metatron to come for the protection of the Terran Council in these dangerous times, but he wasn’t at all interested in joining us.
- Instead, he rudely urged me to send the army to Divine Dimension and fight Rangda with the sanctimonious little toddler before it was too late. I told him off and warned him for coming to me making demands.
Michael:
- Well, he was probably right. But in honesty, I wouldn’t have listened to him either.
Hilda:
- No. Metatron’s demand is not the most important part of the story though. You see what happened next have kept me awake for many nights. I saw something truly magical that I have never seen before. The eye colour of the toddler, Sabina, changed from green to a glowing blue shade, and her enchanting gaze was filled with bright light, and she started speaking like an adult. She was urging me to act and fight the Xenos.
- I freaked out and asked the AI to scan her for bionic implants, but she had none.
- She then revealed that The True Maker, whom she called the Guardian of the entire Universe, including the Normal and the Divine Dimension was speaking through her and that she was Keila Eisenstein’s daughter.
- I freaked out and started screaming as she was the enemy’s daughter, and suddenly she had reverted to a normal toddler.
- I expelled them and threatened to have them executed if they ever came back to Earth.
Michael:
- I see. Do you have the security footage of their visit?
Hilda:
- Yes, I do. AI, show Michael the security footage from my meeting with Metatron on the fifth of September 2876.
After Michael had studied the security footage, he sat silent for a long time until he eventually spoke:
- Well, I understood why the outcome of this meeting has tormented you. But you shouldn’t chastise yourself for what you did. After all, at this time all you knew was that mysterious toddler was the daughter of our mortal enemy and that she was possessed by something that is of unknown origin. For all you knew, she could have been possessed by Rangda, the demon that came to planet Earth with her evil troops.
Hilda:
- Yes. But now, after meeting Melchior, whom I can see was controlled by Rangda, I realised that Sabina must have been influenced by a kindred spirit.
- I have failed to do the right thing by listening to her advice. I might have doomed us all.
- How can I live with myself?
Michael:
- Well, if you feel that this is your mess, then you better work tirelessly to set things right. Killing yourself or giving up on life is just not the right way to approach it.
Hilda:
- But I don’t know what to do?
Michael:
- Neither do I., But if The True Maker chose to speak to you, there must have been a reason, so find a way to set things right!
Hilda:
- You are right Michael. I will set this right or die trying.
- Now please pray with me.
And thus, it happened, that the leadership for House Muller, for the first time in 600 years, prayed together to a higher being, The true Guardian of the Universe.