Written for @flashfictionfridayofficial #FFF 336 "Don't Be Afraid".
Original work
Words: 500
CW: mild body horror
Don't be afraid, you'll be face-down when the Lintari makes the first cut. You'll never even get to see them. Yes, they will be closer than anyone has been to you. How do I know, you ask? I know because they pointed you out to me. The Lintari requested you specifically. They can tell a person who has not been in anyone's physical proximity in a long while. That's what they told me. They said it makes you moldable, pliable. They struggled with a comparison. They haven't been on Earth that long.
Ah! They said. She is like those inflatable figures. Yes, they meant you. Like the figures on people's lawns on winter holidays. Full of air, they are rigid. But you've seen them in the mornings, crumpled by the sidewalk. Floppy - floppy enough to fold into a four-dimensional shape, they said. Oh yes, I told them, I see what you mean. Infinitely bendable, with air gone out of them.
Well, at least that's what I said, "air gone out of them". But for the Lintari everything is the opposite - the interior and the exterior. Switching the inside and the outside is how their gates operate, you know? The gates they build that join pieces of the universe millions of lightyears away. And so when we say "the air has gone out of you", they would say that a vacuum is crushing you. Aren't they right? Don't you feel that way? When was the last time you called someone a friend? You won't answer, of course. You don't have to answer. The Lintari see it. That's why they selected you to be one of humankind's first travellers through their gate.
Oh, you think it's because they don't think anyone will miss you? No! They picked you because that vacuum that surrounds you pulls them in. I agree, it's a shame that you won't get to see them, but they haven't shown themselves to any of us. The only way to experience them is by touch. And you will be the first one so lucky.
You'll be lying on your stomach, face down. They will start the process of folding you into a four-dimensional origami. Yes, four-dimensional. How else would you pass through a gate whose other end is a billion lightyears away, if not through a cross-dimensional shortcut? But sometimes an origami requires a cut in the paper, and the Lintari will have to make one cut. Yes, in you, of course. In that spot at the top of your spine, right around the shoulder level. No, don't be afraid. A Lintari will anesthetize you first. They will lick that spot - yes, lick; I'm told that their tongue is like a cat's tongue, and their body, pressing on yours from above, is like a big cat's; they will, as I said, lick that spot until your whole body forgets what shape it once carried. No, I don't know what shape you will have on the other side of the vacuum.
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jumpsplat120′s amazing letsplay of my upcoming 4D puzzler, Tetraspace. He does a good job at trying to explain the mechanic behind exploring the four-dimensional world.
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Teachers at the high school say each and every student at this school is 사차원 "sa chawon" or, four-dimensional. As in...three-dimensional is normal and four-dimensional is...beyond normal. Teachers usually rotate schools every four years, so depending on their age some teachers have had experience at many schools. They say that no matter what, schools will always have some students that are four-dimensional. But this school is special because even among the "good students" not a single student here can be found that isn't four-dimensional. They say it is mostly due to the fact that most have single parents, live with their grandparents, have parents with psychological problems or in prison, or have no parents at all/live at the orphanage. From a sociologist's perspective I can see how that can be the case. But more so, I choose to believe there's a bit of 사차원 in all of us. We all have our little tweaks, abnormalities, and imperfections that may be only seen upon close inspection. For some, it's more apparent than others. But at such a small school, where teachers practically live with students (most teachers dorm at the school, most commuter students also dorm, students from Gadeok live on the island, I live on the island; we are all together on this small island). We can't help but get to know each other so well that we discover each other's fourth dimension. Our school has its problems, just as any other. Our school's students have their problems, sometimes more difficult problems than most other students have to face. But I'd like to point out that through it all, they are quite surely the most unforgettable students you will ever meet, and this is the most most memorable school you will ever teach at. And with those final words, I'd like to say...I am so happy my winter vacation starts tomorrow. I need those four days off from school.
