FUTAVE, July 6th, 2084, Thursday

It was an incredible, amazing view. The avenue was wide and long with windows of different colors and different sizes located at various heights at both sides. The lights and sounds were changing continuously as people moved forward or backward, to the right or to the left, to high locations or to lower regions. It was an incredible, amazing view.

People from different origins, locations and times were walking silently with happy looks on their faces. Their eyes were not visible to each other, but they were seeing their common universe. The center of the wide and long avenue with a considerable height was a square located at the middle in all dimensions. The Futave Square were hosting all active lights of the universe at certain intervals. The Universe they belong to was the sum of all avenues and squares as conceived by the people. The people was the invisible lights of life as seen in their eyes.

Avenues were coming from and going to peripheral transfer centers located around the Futave Square. Streets were transforming to avenues, highways and lightways. Life was so fast that it was almost invisible.

Futave was first in Anmeri's mind. She had tried to creat a super fast communication system not only with known audiovisual tools, but also with new remote interface options providing direct contact between minds. The media of transfer was not visible, the contents of transfer packages were not definite, the changes of the initiated signals were not traceable. It was a communication system where everything including senders and receivers were volatile and instable. However, the results were promising. Anmeri had designed Futave as the flexible communication center of the Mind System. Minders surviving with minimum amount of material consumption would experience lives at their choices of speed and complexity. It would cost almost nothing to the nature. It had caused a long discussion between Anmeri and Bakara. During a test walk in the Futave, they had played classical chess in a virtual environment. Although they had played very fast with very short thinking periods, it had been quite a long match. It was very exciting at each moment. Their minds were evaluating themselves and each other considering everything they had learned and witnessed. Bakara had lost and asked for repeating the game in the Futave of the Skin System. Anmeri was not much happy with this request but she had accepted. This time, Bakara was the winner. Anmeri had asked to play the final game face to face with a physical board and pieces. Bakara had said it would not be much different than the game in the Skin System. However, the result was different. Feeling the organic parameters coming from Anmeri's skin and body, Bakara had lost his control. It was now very difficult for him to concentrate on the game. The signals he was receiving from Anmeri was very different than the responses he had received in mind and skin systems. It was not possible to describe the differences between the three ways of their experiences, but their thoughts and feelings in the physical world were as if they were living in another world belonging to them. Bakara had been attracted by Anmeri to a world of wonders, and he had lost the game soon after he had lost his control.

"Let's play another game," said Bakara.

It was a very long kiss.

"You understand the value of experiencing the real world with you own body, skin, and mind. Don't you? We are not just skins."

Bakara's feelings and thoughts were telling him to accept whatever Anmeri wanted. His pride was rejecting this request. For a moment, he saw an absolute meaninglessness in insisting on his personal choices. He felt clearly that their lives and the future of their era would be much better if they could find their ways to understand each other and communicate productively. He was about to leave everything and start a new life with Anmeri when he remembered the long efforts they had spent to start the project, the time that had passed while they were preparing the detailed project schedules and applying them, the happiness he had reached even with the first traces of success, and the confidence he had gained after a number of successful results. It was not possible to put all his life aside and start an unknown future. He was very sorry for being without Anmeri but he had no other choice.

The future of their avenues would be different. Anmeri and Bakara would never see the organic existences of each other. Bakara would communicate only through his advances skin of the Skin System. Anmeri would live together with the minders of her choice with minimum consumption so survive her organic life. They would both try to convince others to support them and live like them, to make their systems stronger and survivable. They would both miss each other in all their remaining lives.

"I would love to be with you her for all the rest of my life," said Bakara.

"I know my darling," said Anmeri. "I would also be with your organic existence but I can't imagine a living an infinite life together with a skin. I am so sorry. I wish we could think parallel about time and universe, light and darkness, life and death."

"I wish you could see the beauty of infinity," said Bakara.

"I wish you could see the power and wonders of limits," said Anmeri.

Their last game was long and unforgettable.

They both knew that it would be their final touch to each other. They wanted to play each moment with maximum inclusion, they tried to create a lifetime memory to remember the power of their connection always. Their dances and songs, their voyages and returns, their words and silences, the infinite level connection occurred between their minds and skins, and souls and bodies carried them to a level yet not defined.

"I wish I could remember and live this scene again with you for all the rest of my life," they both said at the same moment.