The Echoes of Wavelength
In an age dominated by machines, humans had found another systematic realm to dominate – the realm of Thought Cognition, or simply, Mind-wave Mechanics. Dr. Henry Staatsfeldt, a brilliant scientist from New Potsdam University, had discovered that human mental vibrations or ‘thought waves’ could be harnessed and utilized for communication purposes. He called it the Wavelength, an omnipresent, imperceptible entity that once unveiled its secrets, will change the course of human communication forever.
Dr. Staatsfeldt devoted his life to this tremendous discovery, creating his lab in the eerie solitude of a sprawling villa nestled deep in the woods of Glanville. There, he lived with his only daughter, twelve-year-old Elara, who shared her father’s precociousness. Though a child, Elara possessed an empathy level high enough to tap into the Wavelength.
One day, while testing a new Wavelength Amplifier Helmet on himself, Dr. Staatsfeldt met with a fatal accident causing his sudden and untimely death. Devastated Elara was left alone with a ground-breaking invention and a new scientific achievement in her hands.
Weeks passed, and Elara’s grief began to meet with an inquisitive determination. She was convinced that her father's presence still echoed in the Wavelength he had discovered. Thus, she decided, she would use the Wavelength to communicate with her deceased father.
The determined Elara started spending long hours in the creaky old laboratory of her father, iterating and distilling the thoughts through the Wavelength Amplifier Helmet. The locals of Glanville crossed the creepy villa with a hint of fear, whispering tales of the determined young girl trying to talk to her dead father.
Months passed in silence until one fateful night; Elara collected her courage and put on the Wavelength Amplifier Helmet. As she activated the helmet, an array of thoughts entered her mind. They were disoriented whispers, like echoes in an enormous cavern. It was a jumbled, hazy maze of human emotions, fears, hopes, dreams, and often, despair.
Elara was aghast. She realized, she wasn’t just receiving her father’s thoughts, but the collective human consciousness’s subconscious part, sent out into the Wavelength as thought waves. The sheer intensity and enormity of it all left her overwhelmed and exhausted.
Unwilling to give up, Elara tirelessly decoded those thought patterns every night, slowly acclimatizing her mind. Days turned into weeks, and weeks into months. Eventually, among the million subconscious echoes, she discerned the familiar patterns of her father's thoughts. It was his guidance, his knowledge, his wisdom, and his calming voice, all entrapped in the echoes of the Wavelength, guiding her in an ethereal way.
Those echoes inspired Elara to share her discovery with the world, promising a future where death would not be the end of human consciousness. With thought waves, the experiences, wisdom, and memories of the dead could still guide the future generations, sustaining their existence in an intangible but significant way.
Elara, the girl from the creepy old villa in Glanville, became a world-renowned scientist, continuing her father’s legacy. As decades passed, humanity didn't just adapt to the new form of communication but thrived on it, ensuring an era of unprecedented advancement.