Before Lana ever saw the gate in the sky…before her fate—and perhaps the fate of the entire universe—began to change, her life was much simpler.
Lana was born in a quiet city far from the noise of the great capitals. She was a curious child by nature, always asking questions about everything around her. But more than anything else, the sky captured her imagination.
On clear nights, she would stand for long moments on the balcony of her home, gazing at the stars as if they were trying to tell her a secret written in light.
She never understood why she felt such a powerful pull toward them.
But there was one person who understood that curiosity.
Her father.
Lana's father was a communications engineer who worked with signal networks and satellites. He spent long hours surrounded by monitors and receivers, studying signals traveling across vast distances. To Lana, it all seemed almost magical.
He often explained to her how invisible waves could carry voices and images across thousands of kilometers.
One night, when Lana was ten years old, her father took her up to the roof of their house. Beside them sat a small receiver and a simple telescope he had built himself.
He smiled and said,"Just like these devices receive signals from Earth… there may be other signals coming from the sky."
Lana looked at the telescope with wide eyes.
And from that night on, her true relationship with the stars began.
Her father taught her that the universe was not just something beautiful to look at. It was a vast network of energy and signals.
He often told her,"Everything in this universe communicates in some way… even the stars."
Lana grew up carrying that idea with her.
At school, she was drawn to physics and mathematics more than any other subject. It was not always easy. Many of her classmates were interested in other things, but her curiosity was stronger than any difficulty.
When she was sixteen, her father took her on a school trip to an astronomical observatory.
There, for the first time in her life, she saw a professional telescope—massive and powerful.
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When she looked through its lens, something inside her shifted.
The stars were no longer distant points of light.
They were worlds.
Galaxies.
Places humanity had never reached.
In that moment, Lana knew what she wanted to become.
An astrophysicist.
Years passed, and she eventually entered university to study astrophysics. The journey was not easy, but her father's support never wavered.
He always reminded her:
"Science begins with a simple question… but it can lead to discoveries that change the world."
And Lana believed that.
Perhaps that was why—many years later, after long nights working in observatories—she refused to ignore the strange signal that appeared in the sky.
While others dismissed it as a simple malfunction in the instruments…
Lana felt something different.
As if the universe itself was trying to say something.
What she did not know was that her curiosity would lead her to the greatest discovery in human history.
And she could never have imagined that the path which began on a quiet rooftop when she was a child…
would one day lead her to a gateway between worlds.
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