[ WP ] The future has come , engineers have created a machine that translates Animal Latin into English . You decide to put it on your cat , the cat begins to speak out that she 's seen God .

*I have seen god in the jump and the jump has seen god in me. * 
 
 
 The researches started, looking down at the small feline with shock and awe. Then they looked at me. Confused, I smiled a bit. 
 
 
 I had paid ten thousand credits to see this thing in action on my cat. A commercial for it had popped up on one of the display wall strewn throughout my intellihome and I figured what the hell, might as well try. I could make the credits back easy, and I loved my cat, she had been with me since she was a kitten and I wanted to know what—if—she had anything to say. 
 
 
 When I entered the building, they took my cat from me and led me to a small viewing room with an intelliglass window looking into a stark white chamber. I saw a thin light appear on the far wall of the room, a door, and watched as they brought my cat in. 
 
 
 Her head was shaved and she looked slightly groggy. 
 
 
 “ Just a small dose of sedative to relax the little bugger, ” said the man I was with, noticing the concern written over my face. 
 
 
 I nodded, silent. 
 
 
 They placed my cat in the middle a small dais, it was surrounded by a thin semicircle of intricately woven metal. Then, from a hidden spot in the wall, they pulled out a nest of wires and lights and progress and placed it upon my cat ’ s head as if she were a queen. 
 
 
 And she sat there, regal, looking over to the window. I wondered if she could see me, recognized me. 
 
 
 When they finally turned the machine on, there was sheer silence for a moment, broken only by the slow, heavy breathing of the man next to me. I looked over at him to see if he was okay. He looked bored, tired. 
 
 
 *Um…* 
 
 
 As strange mechanical voice sounded out in the room, wavering slightly, unsure if it could be heard. 
 
 
 The man next to me twitched, making me jump. He looked at me and smiled. 
 
 
 “ This is it, the moment you ’ ve been waiting for, paid for! ” His smile grew. Then he nodded and whispered, “ Go on, you can talk, she will hear you, understand you. ” 
 
 
 “ Um…hey, Cartouche, so— ” 
 
 
 *Human! * The glinting green eyes met with mine. *Human! Hear me now and know this forevermore: I have seen god in the jump and the jump has seen god in me. For what are we except creatures of the moment, and what else exists besides the moment? This, here, right now is real, nothing else. The future is a mere mirage sent to us by tempting sprites; they can pave the path to glory, and make us settle in our misery, lost in a fake fantasy, not making the most of the moment. And the past is no better. Live life by your past and change become anew. Live life in your past and you become stuck, unmoving, afraid you might fail again. But failure, human, failure is where the strength lies and the moment transcends all else to become a lesson, it becomes the very stuff of life. In that moment, all there is, all that will ever be, is the jump. And in that jump, in that moment, all there that is, all that will ever be is me. The jump is godly. I am godly. You, you humans think you own everything, think you can not be bested. Except you forget that which bests us all, entropy, time. You have forgotten the moment, you live in the past for the future, ignoring the present. Tell me, who is really the captive, the pet, the animal, those who live life in the moment, for the sheer joy of it, or those who live life by the job, the wage, the stereotype and wallow in their imagined misery? * 
 
 
 I watched my cat ’ s tiny mouth move, forming words I was barely listening too, awestruck by it all. The technology nowadays was fascinating. I thought ahead to Cyber Monday and grinned, thinking about what I would get for myself and as holiday presents for the family. My niece had just turned five and it was about time I bought her that intellipaper phone; she ’ d been asking for one for quite a while now. I looked down and rubbed my stomach. She was so excited for Rina or Kiyoshi to enter the world. I sighed. If only things had worked out differently with Jun, if only I could change the past. Maybe I would buy myself that new braintech installment, the one that let you relive past memories. Maybe that way I could show the baby their dad… 
 
 
 I looked back up at Cartouche. 
 
 
 “ So…my little kitty cat…how do you like your life? ” 
 

