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I<\/span> am Ji, a jellyfish. Biologists call me Turritopsis Dohrnii. I have seen millenia, mostly because I don\u2019t die. I just go back to polyp stage and start all over again. Imagine the pain of seeing a millenia, or was it two? But thankfully, unlike most of you, I have neither brain, nor heart, so I really don\u2019t know what that kind of pain is. Just kidding! Your biologists don\u2019t know the kind of brain and heart required to survive forever. You\u2019ll know, eventually. Not now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There, I see Kre coming to me with his ever so large head. You may think that the large head would mean a large brain, but no, I think Kre is a simpleton. Kre doesn\u2019t really think much. Confusing, since I am the one with no brain and Kre is a bowhead whale, all of 70-feet-long, with a head that\u2019s almost a third of his body?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today Kre and I are going to discuss family. He has been asking me about why I worry so much about him having no family. I believe, to survive for as long as I have, and even for Kre who\u2019s almost a 150-year-old, there has to be someone to belong to or the emptiness of the Atlantic comes to take hold of you. It is quite maddening. It puts ideas into our heads. The emptiness, not the ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But who am I to advise Kre? I don\u2019t have any family either. Is that why we\u2019re getting these visions about an apocalypse? Is the ocean turning warm or is it our head that\u2019s turning mushy? Is it getting difficult to breathe or is there a vacuum in my heart? Heart? Eh forget it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Kre, brother, how are you?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Ji master, I must tell you that there is no ice going to be left on the Atlantic-Arctic against which I can hit my heavy head. What would I hit against when I feel the way I do? I would break through a foot of ice to come out and breathe over the ocean\u2019s roof and now it\u2019s all a quick zip up and down. We must do something sooner. There is an apocalypse waiting to happen.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Kre, did you find Sh\u00e9? Did you speak to her? Are you going to keep talking to a jellyfish forever?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He doesn\u2019t respond. Instead, we hear a big screeching thud, almost like an explosion with a continued reverb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The roof of the ocean distracts us with an unusually large ruffle and a strange, new sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018I haven\u2019t heard this in a while Kre. What could it be? Could that be another ice sheet collapsing? But why that strange continuing sound? Or is it again in my head?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018No Kre, it\u2019s new. Let\u2019s check it out.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It doesn\u2019t look like anything we have seen before. The ocean roof has turned a shade of violet, a color I haven\u2019t seen the time the Posiedon broke down, right here. It hit an ice sheet which its breakers couldn\u2019t deal with. I look out for a sinking ship. But there\u2019s none. Is it going to be another one of those chemical disasters? Aaargh, it\u2019s getting nauseous here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Kre, let\u2019s get out of here. Kre?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t see Kre. He\u2019s gone through the roof again, I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An hour passes by, or is it a day? I don\u2019t see Kre. Let\u2019s now expand search. God I am slow! There I find some flotsam which I can hold on to and travel a little faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Kre, brother, where are you?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the days that go by when I search for Kre, there\u2019s little joy in seeing the ocean like this. Back in the day I had that thrill of travel, especially on flotsam or a keel of a large ship or the cargo docks, over the years. Everytime I reset, go back to polyp stage, I lose that thrill just a wee bit, but not today. Today I am particularly upset. There\u2019s been a nagging thought creeping up my head, no not the kind that Kre the Bowhead has, but in that recess of timeless memory that stacks up in some place I don\u2019t know, but it exists. I have been thinking. And no, it\u2019s not just the passage of an inordinate length of time. It\u2019s more than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a marked difference in the rate at which the ocean is changing. And I wonder what it would be on land. It would be much faster. Why am I worried about that? What\u2019s the rate of change on land and in the ocean got to do with me? More on that later. Let me find Kre for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Kre brother, where are you?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I travel what feels like a 100 miles but still there\u2019s no sign of Kre. There\u2019s this eerie violet hue on the roof of the ocean and I am being hurled almost at the speed of sound by some unknown force, something I have never experienced in recent times. Something like this happened around 50 years back, a tsunami or some such making things difficult to stay in one place for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The above excerpt is taken from A Bend in the Ocean, written by Ajay Chacko, and is available for purchase on the Juggernaut Books app. Proceeds from the sales go to The Probably Paradise Shelter, Karjat, Maharashtra.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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