SWNOVELS Chapter She Outshines 495
Chapter 495
When Athena arrived, she found her grandmother had passed away peacefully, a serene smile still resting on her face.
Athena couldn't help but think that her grandmother had probably met the grandfather she'd never known in her dreams.
She truly believed that her grandparents had been deeply in love. Only that kind of love and happiness could have kept her grandmother so warm and forgiving, even after losing her husband so young. "Miss Donovan, please accept our deepest condolences, the nurse and doctor said kindly. "This is a joyful sorrow. Your grandmother would want you to smile as you say goodbye."
Athena wiped away the last of her tears and nodded, her voice steady. "Yes, she's just fallen asleep... into the most beautiful, eternal dream."
She had prepared herself for this moment. What she wanted most was for her grandmother to leave this world without any
regrets.
Over the past few days, Isaac's family had visited daily, doing everything they could to keep Athena's grandmother happy. And they had succeeded-her grandmother was truly happy.
In addition to Athena and the Kennedy family. Matthew and the Donovan family had also made regular visits. Every time Athena's grandmother opened her eyes, she was surrounded by the people who loved her.
The love and attention had worked wonders. Athena's grandmother had been in great spirits these past few days. She ate more than usual, smiled more, and even her wrinkles seemed softer.
Her grandmother had always been afraid of goodbyes. Athena was too-especially the final, in-person kind. But knowing that her grandmother had passed peacefully, lost in a dream, almost felt like a relief. Once the nurse had left and the door to the room closed behind her, Athena was alone.
She turned off the lights, leaving only the soft glow of the bedside lamp. Sitting down beside the bed, she gently held her grandmother's cold, wrinkled hand, her heart full of memories. She spoke softly, as if her grandmother were still there to hear her. "Grandma, I've been keeping something huge from you. It's not because I wanted to hide it-I had to. My mentor insisted that unless it was gone from this world, I could never tell anyone. You always taught me to keep my word, and I couldn't break my vow to him. "I'm telling you now because you're not just anyone-you're my grandma, the one I love more than anything. You won't believe this, but when I was five, I met something amazing. I met a cat in the park that could write. And it really could, Grandma. Athena's voice softened as she continued, "It was injured at the time, lying in the grass, mewing weakly. I was about to pick it up and rush it to the vet when it surprised me-it started writing on the ground with its paw, telling me where it was hurt. "Then it said it was thirsty and asked me to give it some water first. After drinking, it made me promise not to tell anyone that it could read and write. Of course, I agreed"
She paused for a moment, her eyes reflecting the depth of the memory before she went on. "Once it was better, I took it home: Since you're allergic to cats, I kept it in my room, out of your way. It was unbelievably smart.
"It learned how to use the toilet, flush it, and even shower on its own. When it was hungry, it found its food. It never once ruade me worry."
Athena smiled, her thoughts drifting back. "It even knew how to use a computer. It could type faster than anyone I knew and often helped me with my homework by typing out explanations
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"It taught me all my computer skills-even my hacking skills. It shared everything with me-medicine, physics, astronomy chemistry. It knew it all, like a living, breathing encyclopedia. It became my mentor
She took a deep breath, as though bracing herself for what came next. Then, one day, my mentor became human. Well, not exactly human. The consciousness of my mentor transferred from the car's body into a human one
Her voice dropped lower. "It told me it came from a place beyond even alien worlds-a dimension higher than the three-dimensional space humans live in. Its home had been invaded by a more advanced civilization, and to escape, it and its people had to lower their dimension and enter our three-dimensional universe.
"It was like the idea of dimensional reduction in The Three-Body Problem. Their level of technology and knowledge was beyond anything humanity could imagine. My mentor didn't explain much more than that, and I didn't ask
Athena's expression softened, her gaze distant as she relived the tale. "What it did explain was that a physical body is too fragile to survive traveling through time and space. Only consciousness can move freely between dimensions.
"That's how my mentor and its people managed to survive-they stored their consciousness in higher-dimensional objects, lowered their dimension, and entered our universe, hoping to find a new home?
She sighed, her voice quiet as she continued. "But the new home they found wasn't suitable for living. Some of them boarded spaceships to search for a better place. After a long journey across time and space, they finally reached Earth, thousands of years ago. But by then, their ships were barely functioning-out of resources and in terrible shape.
"When they landed, the ships broke apart. The fragile parts were destroyed, including the core that held all their important technology and the map to their homeland-the so-called ancient civilization, or what we might call the ancient codes or treasure. That scattered across the Earth."
Her voice grew solemn. "Most of my mentor's companions didn't survive. The few who did scattered across the planet. My mentor, whose essence is pure consciousness, was now trapped in a malfunctioning robot body, barely functional. So, it had no choice but to keep searching for human bodies to attach itself to, living through others as a human"
Athena took a sip of water, giving herself a moment to breathe. Then she laughed softly as if recalling something with fondness. "My mentor is incredible. A higher-dimensional being with technology and knowledge far beyond anything we could understand. But it didn't want to rule the world or the universe."
She smiled, her voice laced with warmth. "It even refused to interfere with human civilization, choosing instead to observe quietly for thousands of years. Its only dream was to find its scattered companions, the ancient codes, and the core of the spaceship, so it could finally return home."
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