Enanika: Visionary Fiction—The Marketplace

🌍✨ A new story begins…

It’s always an exciting moment to begin a new story.
Here is the start of my new fiction series, Enanika.
It carries the same mystical, otherworldly tone as the Waldmeer Series—yet it’s set in a completely different world. 🌿🕊️

In the opening chapter of Enanika, we meet Anu in her natural world — a peaceful, advanced planet where telepathy is normal, harmony is effortless, and daily life moves with an inner hum of presence.

Chapter 1: The Marketplace

Moving with untroubled ease through the open-air market, Anu’s short chestnut bob brushed just above her shoulders. Sunlight caught her blue eyes, clear as the surface of a calm mountain lake.

Anu was thirty-three.

On Enanika, age does not carry the same weight as it does on Earth. Time is not something accumulated so much as something moved within. Even so, there is a specialness about thirty-three in both worlds. On Earth, it marks the settling of adulthood, when certain things — for good or bad — begin to solidify. On Enanika, it is also a threshold: a time when what had been practised, learned, and played with can now be lived, explored, and embodied in new, profound, and challenging ways. It is a gateway.

Anu’s earth-toned, flowing garments — soft linen pants and a knee-length dress — moved in sync with the subtle breeze and the rhythm of the marketplace. To most visitors, that rhythm seemed silent. But to the Naniks, the inhabitants of Enanika, it was a visceral presence, like a soft hum in the background. All Naniks are telepathic.

The marketplace was a tapestry of telepathic exchanges. Some words were spoken, although not many. Some laughs were out loud, but most weren’t.

Enanika is a quiet world on the outside, but inside, it bristles with awake, focused, vibrant intention. On Earth, most people would be strongly averse to everyone knowing their thoughts and whereabouts. But on Enanika, where the whole population lives with self-worth, freedom, and love, there is nothing to hide.

Anu selected her vegetables with care: a green that resembled a delicate fern, a ripe red fruit like a tomato, and a bright yellow produce that glowed faintly.

Some Naniks, like Anu, still eat physical food, though only vegetarian. Nothing on Enanika is predatory; even the animals are plant-eaters or live on energy transfer.

Whether a Nanik still eats depends not only on their level of evolution, but also on their line of service. Anu was a Contact Caller — assigned to a less-evolved planet to help it evolve. Most Contact Callers eat, since on their contact planets, they will likely be eating.

Anu’s contact planet was Earth. Humans definitely eat. Often too much. Often alarming choices. But that is their right, and one of the first things Contact Callers learn is to respect and understand other planetary choices. As stated in the Contact Caller Code of Conduct:

A Contact Caller must not interfere with the current course of a planet’s evolution. Whatever its inhabitants are doing, they are doing for a reason. It is the natural outcome of their present level of consciousness. A caller may educate, inspire, and encourage, but they can only meet a planet halfway. The rest must come from the planet’s inhabitants, through deliberate and conscious choice. As they evolve, their choices will evolve too. (Contact Caller Code of Conduct)