Bright's Light

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Author: Susan Juby
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Made Easy: Follow Your Inner Angel!
by Sally Lancaster was the front cover and the first few pages, most of which were taken up with compelling testimonials like “This book literally saved my life!” and “I was blind before I read this book and now I see the light!” According to the embossed words on the cover,
Enlightenment Made Easy
had sold over forty million copies.
    The remaining pages of text spoke of the need for all of humanity to become “enlightened and seek a new beginning in new lands.” That sounded exactly like what Grassly had in mind for them. Sally Lancaster claimed humans had only to “see the light to become ready to move to theplace where all good things are possible.” Only when everyone had “migrated to the light” would humanity be healed and ready to begin anew, “bathed in the healing of angelic illumination.” There his understanding faltered. He didn’t know what “angelic” meant, but he felt he got the gist of her argument.
    The book’s cover showed a man falling to his knees in front of a brilliant beam of light and a woman in a pair of high-waisted blue slacks walking directly into it.
    Grassly felt his discovery of the book was a sign as to how he should proceed. After all, Sally Lancaster was a distant relation, of sorts. She was a human. He was a 51. His people, fifty-one of them, had been rescued from Earth in the mid-1970s. They were taken from the fourth floor of a nightclub in New Jersey in an incident that came to be called the Great Nightclub Disappearance. In fact, they were rescued from their sad, limited existence by a powerfully philanthropic, advanced alien species called the Xnxnga (pronounced Ex-in-Ga).
    The Xnxnga, who looked like anteaters, only friendlier and larger, transported the fifty-one to an idyllic (at least from a 1970s human perspective) planet called H51, where they developed a technologically and sociologically utopian society and received the gift of accelerated evolution. Only a few decades after they left the faltering Earth, the 51s and their descendants underwent the sort of profound transformation experienced by many advanced species: they became One.
    When they turned fifty-one years of age, the 51s merged physically and psychologically into their familialgroup, joining the group mind known as the Mother. The fifty-one Mother consciousnesses were housed in towering black pyramids located in the majestic red rock desert in the northwestern lands of H51. As you might expect if you’ve ever met a mother, the Mothers were a powerful presence in the lives of their offspring, except during a single life phase: the coming-of-age ritual known as the Sending, which took place when 51s were on the cusp of adulthood, somewhere between their seventeenth and twenty-first years, depending on their maturity level.
    The Sending was another legacy from the Xnxnga. Young 51s on a Sending left their planet, and sometimes their galaxy, with the goal of discovering, rescuing, and, if necessary, rehoming endangered species from other planets. The experience was meant to solidify their self-esteem, which was considered the critical prerequisite for a successful life.
    In order for a 51 to complete a successful Sending, the species being saved had to actively participate in its rescue. For instance, the original fifty-one had willingly gone with the Xnxnga when they mistook the ship parked on the roof of the nightclub for another dance floor.
    The ancestors were notorious throughout the Charted Territories for having destroyed their planet and every other living thing on it. Every young 51 knew that the ancestor population was on the verge of extinction and lived inside a single dwelling called the Store, into which they had withdrawn at the time of the Great Corporate Retreat. But they were considered beyond hope—beyond Sending, if you will.
    Had Grassly fully understood what he was getting himself into, he might have chosen his Sending more wisely. As it

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