Under the ice of Enceladus, there is an ocean. What life might live there, with no need of the sun?
We built a robot named AVI (Autonomous Visual Interface). She would go where humans could not. We thought there was no fear in AVI, or wonderment, no capacity for loneliness or love.
AVI saw things beyond our visual spectrum, as she swam in the cold and black. She sent back images of auroras, tentacled lightning, bridges not designed for us.
We saw the flickering of enormous creatures. AVI followed them into the darkness, toward the lights of their distant cities.
Author bio: Voima Oy lives on the Western rim of Chicago, near the expressway and the Blue Line trains. Her writing has appeared in Visual Verse, Paragraph Planet and Unbroken Journal. Follow her on Twitter, too – @voimaoy.
AVI is part of 101 Fiction issue 12.
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