“When you were a child at school, did you have to stay with them in that big building?” I asked Koharu, pointing at the huge structure on the mountain, visible from everywhere in the city.

“Yes! But children are only allowed to stay on the first two floors,” she replied.

“Please tell me more as I’m feeling anxious about what to expect when I’m there. It would lessen my anxiety if you could share as much information as you can,” I admitted

“What do you want to know?” Koharu asked.

“Something more substantial about the highly evolved beings who live there.”

“The highly evolved beings? Well, obviously, they’re full of love that extends beyond the kind that ordinary humans have experienced. When you are in their presence, this unique love envelopes you and it becomes contagious,” she explained.

“One more thing, they also have special skills. For example, they can lift massive rocks using only their mental power or navigate spaceships with their souls. They can also persuade compliance with their orders simply by using mental concentration or create illusions that affect perceptions and experiences of reality. I’ve heard all of these stories from my older fellows,” Koharu said.

“Have you ever actually seen them do any of these things?” I asked.

“No, I haven’t, but I have seen spaceships taking off from the roof of the building. If you keep an eye on those spires, you can see them sometimes. However, they’re incredibly fast, so you will only see a white dot rising high and disappearing almost immediately.”

“Really? Let me have a look,” I said as I peered at the rooftop of the big building on the hill.

Feeling a bit disappointed at the lack of activity, I turned back to Koharu and said: “No flights taking off or landing tonight, I guess.”

“There isn’t a fixed timetable for their departures and arrivals, as far as I know, and it depends on the assignments that they receive. Most of their missions, though, are to your planet,” she explained.

“That sounds so exciting. Well, I think I’ve seen enough. Shall we grab something to eat?” I suggested.

We strolled back to the food zone and sampled almost every snack as all of them looked so appetising. Some of them were really delicious, while others had a rather strange appearance and taste. I understood now why they made bite-sized portions because after having eaten around twenty pieces, I was already quite full although there were hundreds of other recipes that I hadn’t yet tried.

“What do these highly evolved beings eat, and how do they cook?” I turned to ask Koharu.

“There are two categories of highly evolved beings. In the first category, they are ordinary human beings just like us. People will bring them food twice a day. The beings in the other category, however, don’t consume food like we do. It’s not that they don’t need to eat but their nourishment is air, light, and sound,” she explained.

“What? They consume light and sound instead of food?” I repeated, as I thought I had misheard what she had said.

“Yes, because their body is more developed than ours. You could say that they are one level closer to the state of energy. However, they have some basic physical qualities, for example, when you touch them, it feels like touching a soft piece of silk,” Koharu said.

“This is why they don’t need to partake material substances as their nourishment. They don’t need to absorb energy indirectly by consuming plants or animals like we do because they can extract this life energy directly from the sunlight, similar to the photosynthesis of plants. But if they don’t get light, they die.”

“The next element they need is air, an element between matter and energy. It’s the finest kind of matter, but, at the same time, also the rawest form of energy. Therefore, the most basic food intake for the highly evolved beings is air, which they consume the same way as we do by breathing it in through the nose.”

“The last element is sound, or what we call ‘frequency’, which is equally important as the other elements, but they don’t listen to sound for entertainment like we do. The quality of sound is defined by its frequency; like a particle that can adjust its molecular structure and alignment of the cells in their bodies and make them more complete. This is the reason why the singers and musicians take turns in playing music at the foot of the hill, providing high-quality sounds as nourishment for the highly evolved beings.”

“Also, because highly evolved beings don’t have any input of any physical food, there is no physical output, too, if you know what I mean.”

After we had eaten enough, we sat and listened to the music that was played in various spots throughout the courtyard. We found a band that played different kinds of instruments in harmony that Koharu and I very much liked, and we enjoyed listening to them so much that we completely forgot about the time until it was already quite late.

“Oh, dear, Koharu, it’s already quite late now. I hope Kyran isn’t going to blame us for having stayed out so long,” I said as she rested her head on my shoulder.

“Don’t worry, Tim,” she replied, “I’ve already told him by telepathy that I was staying out a bit longer with you here and that we will meet at Vince’s house later in the evening.”

“It’s going to get dark soon, so may I suggest that we leave now?” I said.

“Alright, but I’m going to miss this moment,” Koharu sighed.

“Do you remember the way to Vince’s house?” I asked.

“No, I don’t but let me ask him,” she replied.

“The area where Vince lives is not far away,” she said, making a gesture that looked as if she was communicating with someone invisible.

“Vince just gave me directions to his house; we have to cross the bridge, walk three blocks, then turn right and continue straight ahead until the end of the street. His house is on the right, next to a small canal, and before the next bridge.”

“Well, let’s go then,” I suggested.

As we strolled across the bridge, we admired the evening sky that bathed the scenery in a pinkish-orange light. The elevated bridge allowed us to observe the sky in all directions. The river was lined with rows of buildings on both sides, each adorned with elaborate stucco which, at that moment, appeared as if it has been painted with the golden yellow light of the sunset. Beyond the street towered the huge mountain where the residence of the highly evolved beings was located. I held Koharu in my arm as we ambled along, trying to prolong the moment. She seemed to feel the same way as she placed her hand on my waist and turned to look me in the eyes.

“I will love you forever,” she said softly.

“And I love you too,” I replied, holding her hand tightly.

It was a very intense moment. If I were to spend the rest of my life in this world, I knew that nothing would ever make me suffer. I had found my soul mate who was beautiful like an angel. I didn’t have to worry about food, or money, about having a house to live in, or about getting ill, or about being able to send my children to a good school. I could do what I loved, and I knew that whatever I wished for could come true in an unlimited way.

“Why is my world so different from Tuengra? Everyone would be happy living like this,” I said softly.

“This is the prototype of a perfect world, whereas your world is full of imperfection and forgetfulness,” Koharu turned to say.

“The world of forgetfulness?” I asked.

“You have forgotten what perfection is, and your life there is all about wallowing in forgetfulness, or its other name, ignorance, in search for wisdom.”

“When the people on your planet remember what perfection is, they could change and make it happen. When they realise that, happiness will come to their world,” she explained gently, while looking straight into my eyes without blinking.

“This is really crucial, you know?” Koharu emphasised.

“Fear and anxiety make everything complicated.”

“Listening to you, I immediately feel sorry for the people on my planet,” I said.

“You’re right! We all are praying for people on your planet,” she replied.

The sky had turned completely dark by the time we arrived at Vince’s house. Soft white lights beamed from round spheres, which resembled electric bulbs, dotted all along the streets and inside the houses.

“Does this city have electricity?” I asked Koharu as we entered Vince’s compound.

“It’s not the kind of electricity that you have. Ours is a pure glowing element compressed into a glass tube and does not require any kind of power. We have installed them all over the city and distributed to every family that wanted to use them,” she replied.

“That’s incredible, the light is as bright as a fluorescent lamp. But why don’t you have it in your home?” I asked.

“We don’t need it as we don’t work at night. But the people in the city work regularly at night, like the musicians, for example, who perform day and night. Or painters and artists, like Vince, who often stay awake and paint throughout the night, too,” Koharu explained.

“Yes, that’s right! Ha-ha,” Vince had heard her last sentence and laughed aloud as we were walking in.