My oasis through space and time

I was…luckily unlucky, I would say.
I was whining about how I would never be able to visit every place I would want to visit, nor will I be able to read every single book I would like to read…
A witch that was passing by heard it, and she…cursed me?
Or blessed me?
I have been made…immortal and at the same time a drifter.
When I first awoke, I was burning in a volcano that was just emerging…when Earth was still just now cooling down…
But I didn’t die, nor did I feel pain.
I walked out of the fiery pit, and marveled at the sight of the almost completely barren Earth.
There was nothing, but scorched ground, always shaking, great craters created by fallen space junk and most importantly, a magnificent sight: the ever cloudy sky…
The clouds were grey and black, and slightly white and slightly yellowish…
It was a mesmerizing sight…
I’ve been all alone, wandering the dangerous early days of our planet for a decade, before I felt myself whisked away once more.
This time around, I’ve been sent to the early days of medieval age Britannia, when many tribes started to form towns, cities and start to think about kingdoms.
Wasn’t funny.
I’ve been known to have read a lot of books, and I considered myself witty, but…
One mistake and I’ve been caught as a warlock, and locked in.
My blood was then drained over and over again, used as a “tonic”.
Thankfully, 3 months after being caught, I’ve been whisked away once more.
Now, it was the future, the 25^th century.
This time, it was much easier to blend in…as the entire planet was like a huge marketplace…
Countless other races were walking the streets, and the crowds were so big, it was hard to find some peace…
But the books…
Through a little chip one could digitally access, and upload into one’s brain information…
I did that…now I have trillions of books in my mind, ready to be read at my leisure…
I sold by kidneys, and liver 19 times in order to buy the books and the chip from a…let’s say less legal place, but since I am immortal, and I already tested and knew that they will regenerate, it wasn’t that bad.
Of course…it was one kidney at a time, and for the liver…it was me myself who take it out…
And then I was whisked again after 2 whole centuries this time in which I even visited other planets!
But I was thrown into the Antiquity…then thrown again into the future, then into the Mesozoic Era, then again and again and again and again…
I lived more years than the entire human race up until 2020 the year in which I was “cursed”, yet I felt…young?
Refreshed?
Blessed?
And very, very lonely…
I helped people here and there, after all, you don’t get to be immortal, to see the universe and not learn a thing or 2.
And with the things I’ve learnt…it would’ve been really selfish not to help people out from time to time…
But I couldn’t really make connections and relations could I?
After all, I never knew if I would be whisked away after a day, a month, a year or a century or more…
That’s when I met her for the 2^nd time…
Yes, not the first…
My memory due to the chip I got in my 3^rd trip is…perfect and even more than that.
It ensured my brain cells never deteriorate through the release of certain chemicals that are created through the transformation of simple glucose.
And at the same time, it has the same function as the brain when it comes to memories, as it can store them, and I can actively search for them, thus lessening my natural brain’s burden.
Well, back to the topic…her…
First I met her in the future and we…we became friends.
I’ve been there for centuries, so after 3 decades, I felt comfortable enough to socialize properly, and not only as a façade.
And she was my one and true friend.
She was an eccentric vet, and exotic animal keeper.
Her veterinary hospital welcomed beasts from all across the galaxy and from even further beyond…
And her personal pocket space was a humongous forest filled with species that were sometimes cute, sometimes deadly…
We’ve had fun…
I even trusted her enough to tell her my secrets, and she told me hers.
But it seems, while I told her everything…she didn’t.
While we used our blood to gain the favor of many beast clans and even ancient beings, through healing them or lengthening their lifespan, it seems like she forgot to mention one little thing…
She was an immortal as well!
My 2^nd time meeting her was actually, in 934, in Asia, she was taking care of the animals of a rather noble family.
Imagine my surprise when I met her, and imagine her surprise when I talked about her favorite colors, about how she tames animals and so on…
And why did I know that it was her, and not an ancestor of hers?
She looked exactly the same, had the same mannerism, same fashion style, same verbal tic, everything was the same.
And then, we spent the next few years together, establishing another veterinary hospital in Asia, and a merchant group.
Also, we’ve made sure that she won’t forget me, and she told me a few more things about her.
She was from a different planet, and indeed, she was also immortal.
But she wasn’t an immortal because of a curse, but because she trained until she became one.
After truly opening up to me, we had truly good times together, before I was whisked away once more…
But this time, I knew what I had to do…
If I wasn’t whisked away in a week, then it meant that I would be in the time period for at least a month…
Month in which I would travel, and seek her out.
And that’s what I did.
On Earth, Mars, in the Andromeda Galaxy and so many other places.
Tens of thousands of years in the future, millions of years in the past, we’ve met and we’ve always laughed at how fate brought us together.
We were like sisters.
I was still cursed.
Still unable to stand “still” in the great river of time.
But I wasn’t alone anymore.
She was there.
My oasis through space and time…always prepared to sooth my soul…to allow me to rest…