Stephen's Secure Blog #39
These stories about Stephen began was when he was 10 years old, and
moving to a new part of the country to attend a special school for
gifted students, in the 1950's. This was from a time before computers
would fit on a desk, and when people communicated with friends in other
countries by actual letters sent through the postal service. He wrote
225 of them to a friend. He stopped writing to his penpal, but found he
still wanted to record his life, in case he lost his memory again, and
wrote 30 entries in his first logbook. Then he wrote to an artificial
intelligence called Geenee, in the master computer in his school for
gifted students, which he started attending in 2016. Now it's 2018 and
later, and he's continuing to save his memories in a secure blog.
All characters are fictitious, even if some of them might have names
that belong to some actual people, or act like people we know.
The stories may not be posted in chronological order.
Stephen is 12 in this story, in the Summer after year 2 of his special
school.
Stephen's Secure Blog #39 "Ichi and Cress"
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It was morning, after breakfast. I was outside the house on the
RedCloud family ranch, painting with pastel pencils. I had my pads and
pencils all around me. On the first pad I had done the things for the
Navaho Council, of the old Shaman and other things. A lot more than
they had asked for. I don't know how I knew, but I drew him as he was
in his younger days, too. One of my favorites was him sitting at a
campfire telling stories to a half circle of kids. Their rapt
attention, and catching him in mid gesture, turned out really well. The
second pad had copies for the family. The third pad had drawings of the
family, in a lot of fun situations. The forth pad had copies of some of
the things I made at the festival. All of them were psionically active.
Sometimes different family members came out to watch. I was finished in
time for lunch, and went in with them to eat. They wanted to look at
the finished artwork then, but I said after chewing. So we chewed. Then
I said "These two pads are duplicates. This one to the Council, and
this one to you as backup. This one is duplicates of the best I did at
the festival, and this one is of the family. Well, and Sulde." Hawk
grinned said, "Definitely can't leave him out." Rose said, "He would
say 'neigh' to that." We all groaned and giggled.
The most popular one in the family pad was of Cress' upturned face,
looking radiantly delighted. Her mother stared at that for a long time
and then said, "You really captured her." Hawk said "She sure wasn't
playing hard to get." Cress was embarrassed, and we laughed and hugged
her. I said "I made some extra, if you want to put duplicates in the
bedrooms. Use acid free paper in the matting, behind nonglare glass.
The chalk won't smudge with careful handling. Can I ask a little favor
of you?" Father said, "Of course." I said "Can I bring my brother Ichi
to see the art?" He said "Yes. I think we would like that." I said
"He'll be here as soon as he gets dressed." Two minutes later, there he
was, in the living room. He noticed the Mongol right away, but ignored
it until he was shown it, after the introductions. All the family
members took turns telling all about it and the life it came from. With
my permission, he showed them an image of the diamond tree, and ported
in the chopsticks to show them. Then they showed him the wood carving,
and his jaw dropped. We all grinned at him. He said "How did you do
THAT?" I said "I don't really know. I started doing things like that in
my drawings at the festival, and people made a fuss over it. I even
surprised myself with that. And more, when I drew things of the past I
had never seen." Then we showed him the pastels. He said a lot of wows.
Then Hawk whispered in Ichi's ears, "We discovered he can sing like a
nightingale." They knew I heard that. Then he said "You should see him
ride a horse bareback!" Ichi said, "I thought you were afraid of
horses." Cress said with pride, "Not any more!" Hawk's father said,
"I've never seen anybody less afraid of horses in my life. Nor somebody
I knew, who could do summersaults and handstands in a moving horse."
Ichi said to me, "You did THAT?" Rose said with an impish grin, "Yes.
Wrong season for wintersaults." Ichi laughed really hard, and looked at
her closely, and said, "Oh! Sister! I'm VERY happy for you." I said
"Not the first time around, too." He said "Wow!" I said "She's going to
be hearing that a lot." He said "I'm sure of it!" He went over to her
and they hugged. Rose said to him, "You should see him ride." She asked
her father, "Can we do that now?" He said to Ichi, "Can you stay?" He
said "It's 6AM my time, so I can stay as long as you and my parents
will let me. They don't know I'm gone, so I'll tell them I'm with
Stephen at his invitation, when they wake up. Because it's him, they
won't think of saying no." He said "I know just what you mean." They
grinned at each other.
We went to the horses. I introduced them to Sulde, and Sulde to them.
I said "Sulde, you should get used to other riders, because I can't be
with you all the time. We'll do that later. Right now, would you like
to do some tricks with me?" He nodded. I said to the group, "Just so
you know, I've never made him nod." Hawk covered up his wow, but I
grinned at him anyway, and he grinned back. Ichi grinned at both of us.
I led Sulde out, and said to the group, "For these tricks, I need bare
feet and no saddle, because we don't have the rough soled shoes I used
to have, and the right saddle for this. Oh, and this won't work well
when the horse is er, damp." We went out to the field, and I grabbed
Sulde's mane and jumped on his back. We galloped around a while just
for fun. Then we slowed to a canter, and set it to a 20 meter circle,
and I did some trick moves on his back, including handstands,
summersaults, riding backwards, and other things. Then we stood still,
and I had the family call out commands for how the horse should move,
and the horse did them with my hands in the air, so they could see I
wasn't directing him with anything more than my knees and positions. I
said "In case you didn't know, Sulde can see my hands, while he's
seeing in front of him, too. He would follow the movements of my hands,
if I did that." Then we went back and put on the saddle. Hawk passed me
a bow and some arrows, and set up bales of hay as targets. We rode
around, and I did more tricks using the saddle and shot arrows from
different awkward positions, accurately. Then we stopped, and for the
first time, I put a halter on him. He didn't like it at first, but soon
he got used to it, and I taught him how to be directed by the reins
which were attached to it.
Then I got off Sulde and said to the group, "Sulde needs to get used
to other riders now, since I'll be leaving, and he will have to let
other people ride him. Hawk, come here. Touch him, and be nice to him,
and talk aloud and with your mind to him. Good. He likes you. Mount
him, and control him gently with your whole body and feelings. You
don't need the reins for much of that. Go." He did, and tried different
movements, gaits, and directions. They did very well together. They
came back, and Hawk got off, and said to Sulde, "Sulde, you did very
well. You are a good friend. Thank you very much." Sulde nodded. I said
"Ichi next." He did the same. I said "Rose next." Her father was a
little reluctant, but allowed it. She did very well, and I told both of
them that. I asked her father if he would ride him, and he did, just as
well. Mother declined. I said "Now that we've finished riding for
today, Hawk, Rose, please groom Sulde, so he will get used to you all
the way." They led him away. I said to Cress, "When you are bigger, for
such a big horse, you can ride him too, but not right now. After all,
you have to have reasons to grow up, don't you?" Her face clouded over
for a few seconds, and then she grinned and said, "Not really, but I
understand." We hugged. We waited, and Hawk and Rose came to join us,
and we walked back to the house.
Ichi said "My parents give permission for me to stay as long as you
can tolerate me. If you like, I can connect you with them, to discuss
that. They know English." Hawk's father said, "Please." They did, and
for a long time. I can only guess how interesting their conversation
must have been. I could see Ichi wasn't part of that. I decided to see
if I could tap into the thread I could see of it. I extended a feeler
and pushed it into the stream a little, and did hear a few words. I
quickly pulled back. After they were finished, I asked Hawk and Ichi to
connect so I could try that experiment for real. It worked, and they
didn't detect me. We all disconnected and I told them what I did. Then
Ichi connected to me, and Hawk tried it. I felt it, and him, through
what he was doing, but Ichi didn't. I said "Now we have something to
practice for sensitivity training. Too bad it has to be done with at
least three. It's time to check Rose again. Rose, who do you choose? I
would like it to be Hawk. He'll be with you all summer, and could use
I said "Yes. Both of you are my responsibility in this." Hawk said +No
damage. Very good object sense, outstanding emotion sense, telepathy no
change, some precognition, some projection. All with potential for
improvement. IQ now176.+ I said +Great. Thanks. Palm up for the first
crystal. Discom.+ I ported the first chakra crystal to his hand, and he
gave it to her and said, "This will explain some of the science that's
involved with all this, and give you some ethical guidance, too." He
gave it to her, and she put it to her head. Then he said, "Dad, would
you like to read this, too?" He did, and took it, and opened his eyes
really wide. The boy Adepts grinned at him. Hawk said, "Mom?" She read
it too, with the same reaction.
Ichi said, "Stephen invented our use of the crystals, and is the
first to apply scientific principles to what we do, and he invented all
our training methods, including some new ones last month. Yes, he's
been busy." I said "Ahem, Hawk, it will be your responsibility to
provide resistance training to Rose, all summer. If he agrees, Ichi can
assist you." I said to her father, "She needs to be able to protect
herself. There are bad people out there who have some of the same
abilities we do, so we need to be able to resist their possible
attacks. The resistance to mental invasion and control training, helps
with that, and strengthens the mind and concentration, which is
necessary for advancement. From now on, each psionics knowledge crystal
will check if the student is ready for it, and will not work for the
unprepared." Hawk and Ichi said together, "Stephen is very thorough."
They laughed with each other, in their hugs. Her father said, "Er,
Wow?" We all laughed. I gave Pete all the information on Rose,
including her father's initial resistance to her going to our school.
We agreed we wanted her there, badly. I said to Rose, "You have some
talents which Hawk will be discussing with you soon. One of them is
something only I can help you with. There shouldn't be any problems
with it now, but if there are any, let me know." I shot that
information, about telepathy, to Hawk, who hid his surprise very well.
Their mother said, "We'll be eating soon. Ichiro, you are staying.
Have you ever had ostrich meat?" He said with interest, "No ma'am, but
if Stephen likes it, practically everybody will." She said "Oh, he's a
sensitive eater?" He grinned, "A little." I poked him, and he poked me
back, and we wrestled a little. Rose and Hawk pulled us apart, and we
both agreed that the hugging from our rescuers was much better.
Everybody but Cress noticed that Cress was fascinated by Ichi, who
didn't mind that at all. When it was time, he escorted her to the
table, and seated her like a real gentleman. She insisted he sit next
to her. Rose and I showed each other our hidden grins. We had a Mexican
style stir fry with ostrich steak strips, with vegetables and cheeses,
tortillas, and a salad, with some fruit. It was very good. Ichi said he
liked it a lot.
While we were talking in the living room after supper, Ichi said, "I
saw pictures of a lot of people here, but nothing of Stephen." They all
looked at me. I looked behind me all over, acting like they were
looking at somebody else. Cress laughed. I grinned and said, "Well,
that worked." She laughed again. I said "I draw what I see. I didn't
see any mirrors. BUT, I am in one thing." Hawk got up and turned around
the wood project. Ichi grinned and said, "But, is right. You're on the
rear of it." Rose tried not to laugh. Hawk didn't try, and laughed.
Cress said "Stephen protects butts. Just ask his horse." Hawk laughed
some more and said, "You have to tell him. It's only fair, after you
told us about the naked tattoos." I said "I suppose so, if the rest of
you won't mind." They really didn't, and their renewed laughter agreed
with that, which included Ichi's. He said "I wonder what the boy
thought of Stephen's comment." Father said, "I can tell you that." We
were all surprised. He said "The next day I got a call from the
Sheriff. He said the boy accused Stephen of throwing er, stuff at him,
that they had to wash off. I told him Stephen was with us at Pizza Hut,
and walked back with us while the boy was still being hosed down, and
he could verify that with the Pizza Hut staff and patrons, because we
were laughing very loudly at a story Stephen was telling us. They were
sure to have remembered us, and that very pale boy with us. He called
back the next day and apologized, and asked if we wanted the boy
charged with filing a false police report. I said we didn't, and that
was the end of the matter." Hawk said "He was really full of er,
stuff!" We laughed.
They asked me to draw a picture of Ichi, for his parents. I did, and
he was amazed. I cupped my hand to my ear, and he said the expected
"Wow!" We laughed. When it was time for bed, The father said, "Ichiro,
would you like to stay over? Your father said it would count as your
weekly visit with Stephen." He said "Yes, please, if Hawk agrees." Hawk
grinned and said, "I absolutely DO agree!" So we went to the bedroom
and kissed and hugged each other very hard. Ichi said through some
tears, "It's been a week. That felt longer than I thought. My father
accepts our emotional attachment, and supports it. Hawk, I hope you
don't mind sharing Stephen with me." He said "Of course I don't mind.
We all love each other!" I said "Then why are we still separated by
clothing?" We fixed that in a hurry. Then we all sat on the rug and
hugged and kissed for a half hour. Then they laid me flat and Ichi held
me while Hawk licked my nuts. They wanted the link at the highest, so I
did that, and soon we all squirted really hard, spontaneously. Then
they wanted to do it again, just like that, and so we did. Then we did
it nice and slow, at low intensity, and with some mutual boner pumping,
we all finally squirted very well. While we were resting, Ichi said "I
really missed this." Hawk said, "Even though I'm in love with Stephen,
which I sure all of us knows, I do have to admit it's better with
three, than with just two." I said "As the most used of us, I have to
say, I like it any way we do it." They laughed. We cleaned up, and went
to sleep very happy, with lots of love flowing between us.
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