01/03 Infinite

The cells
Part 1: Defeats 'N Achievements
Chapter 3: Infinite

Rustcell was lost for words.

"Did this small vacuole like creature actually went in there and searched the entire cell knowledge in a jiffy and came back with what was written about DNA? probably centuries ago? How did it do that? What if it can search anything? how is it doing it? o my dear pronu! this means we can ask it anything...any thing and it will fetch us an answer from the holy book...  the possibilities are immense."

Rustcell's mind was on an overdrive, yet his house showed no signs of the turbulence inside. The house had learnt in all this years that, rustcell was fascinated about every new thing he learnt about.

The house walls had shaken out of excitement for a whole day, when Rustcell had first learnt about origins of Pronu from a fellow cell, who had heard about it from his neighbour, who in turn had heard it from his.

Similarly, on hearing about Mighto and his story, he had started referring to the power tap in his house as Mighto and urged everyone in the neighbourhood to treat their taps with respect. He told them that mighto was as holy as Pronu, if not more. Not many cells bothered about what he said, some young ones made fun of him while the old ones pretended to follow his word out of pity.

"infinite" was the word which spilled out from Rustcell, when his mind could not contain the excitement any longer.

Eincell, acknowledged this with a smile. " Infinite possibilities indeed, dear Rustcell "

After some moments, Eincell thought that Rustcell had settled from the surprise of meeting Bingo. He wanted to ask Rustcell about what should be their first question. He leaned forwards, towards the wall separating them. But even before Eincell could start asking the question, Rustcell calmly started,

" This is going to be a long and interesting journey , Eincell. There are things I know to be true. there are things I think I know which i would like to confirm. And then there is the unknown. I have spent my entire life seeking answers and today when you have shown me Bingo, I feel that my curiosities have been rewarded. "

" We have a lot to learn about ourselves, and after today, after hearing about our origins and about the decisions our ancestors had to make, you would be a very different cell, dear Eincell. If this thing can do what you say it can, then we are going to go to the very origin of what we call life. We will get the privilege of hearing our ancestors' stories, their adventures, their follies, their achievements and their thoughts in their own words. "

"Now that you know about DNA, each and every living thing has one chapter in his holy book. One chapter that is common to every DNA, despite their differences in form. A DNA in the house of a cell in an Elephant's trunk has this chapter. A DNA in the cell of the petals of the rose has it. Every cell in this body which we are part of has it, i have it and you must be having it. This was written just before the death of Pronu, by Pronu himself. I had wept out of amazement for a whole week after I read the chapter from my DNA. Why don't we begin at the beginning? "

"Bingo! I, Pronu "