ET- Resurrected

Elliott stood over the little coffin. He brushed the dry ice away from E.T.’s face. The tears in Elliott’s eyes spilled down his cheeks and fell onto the plastic film covering E.T.’s wrinkled brow. “I thought I’d get to keep you forever. And I had a million things to show you, E.T. You were like a wish come true. But it wasn’t a wish I knew I had, till you came to me. Have you gone some place else now?”

  Do you believe in fairies?

  Geeple geeeple snnnnnnnnnnnn org

  A beam of golden light shot through inner space. Historians of the cosmos are divided as to the direction from which it came. It was more ancient than E.T., older than the oldest fossil. There are those who claim it was the healing soul of Earth itself, flickering a single thread of what it knew, as a gesture of diplomacy perhaps, toward its alien visitor.

  “Don’t peek in any more windows,” some say it said, and was gone.

  Others say the Earth was doomed and could not save itself, that the saving force had come from a sister planet, to lend a hand in pacifying the dragon of the nuclear force.

  And still others heard: dreeeple zoonnnnnnggggggg ummmmmtwrrrdssss

  Calling from the beyond.

  Whatever it was, it touched E.T.’s healing finger, and caused it to glow.

  He healed himself.

  He did not know how.

  But he had a vision of his Captain, more beautiful than any could imagine.

  Good evening, Captain, said E.T.

  Don’t peek in windows, said the answering voice.

  Never again, my Captain.

  A brilliant glow filled E.T.’s entire body, and he felt golden all over, but especially in his heart-light, where the gold transmuted to red, on and off. The steam, rising from the dry ice, turned pinkish, tinted with color. Elliott noticed it, scraped away the ice from E.T.’s chest, and saw the glow of the old voyager’s heart-light.

  He turned toward the door, where Keys was still talking to Mary. He quickly covered E.T.’s heart-light with his hands.

  E.T.’s eyes opened. “E.T. phone home.”

- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in His Adventure on Earth, chapter 15