Terra Firma

"Life and matter are independent," Devil explained. "Life is not matter, matter is not life. Do you want me to play the music of life?"

"Please,.. no music!."
"Please is unnecessary," She said.

"Devil..," she called. "Since I could remember, I have always wanted to know what the Truth is. Millions of people came before me, lived, worked the land, raised their children and their animals, and then lay down on the ground to die, to rot to bones, without knowing the Truth. More people are coming to do the same, and more people are dying, and this will go on for thousands of years, perhaps millions of years. Are you listening to me Devil?"

"Cause to remain, proceed!" Devil boomed.

"I wish I could die for the Truth. I wish I had the knowledge, and I wish I could know who the gods are and what they know. The worst thing that can happen to me is to die without knowing the Truth. Death will come, no matter what we do, it will always come. It came to the prophets, the queens, the kings, the rich, the poor, the stars, the animals, the plants, and it even came to the tiny forgotten bug. Well, I don’t care for my life as much as I care about knowing the Truth. I don’t care for this empty life of ignorance, for this unfair life that you and I live in. Why would you want to be staying here, where nobody can help me discover the Truth? Please help me know the Truth, and cooperate for the sake of knowledge and wisdom."

Devil said, "I shall reevaluate. I shall reexamine, reconsider and cooperate. I shall seek the Truth... for you."

Right at that moment, Mary entered the room with her usual jaded dresses and her brown bag, hanging 270 degrees down from her shoulder. Devil knew that she came at the hottest moment of the debate. He sat in his chair, watching and letting her settle down.

"Please reset all banks of knowledge!" Devil whispered.

Devil whooshed his disk drives and then said, "Please is unnecessary, all banks of knowledge are set."

"Reset all banks of logic!" She responded.

Devil ran his drives again, and this time, there was a pause. It took him longer to answer. "All banks of logic are set. Proceed."

She said, "Check all glitches!"

Devil responded: "Interrupt commands, I am in a fit state for immediate action. I am waiting to be used. Onward! Forward! Proceed!"

"Who is God?" She asked. "What is the ultimate Truth? What is the meaning! Execute! Go!"
After she finished asking her questions, a complete silence engulfed the room, and not even one drive of the machine was running. Devil was probably gathering all the information necessary to find the answer. Everybody was waiting and looking with anticipation. They were all looking at each other.