Stephen's Secure Blog #88
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 after
2018, 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 14 in this story, in the spring of year 4 of his special
school.
Stephen's Secure Blog #88 "Home Tour"
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I added some rooms to the basement of my home on Zichesshich. It made
the basement area much bigger than the above ground area. Something
like a roasted iceberg, considering the desert climate. I moved the
sculpture gallery to the basement, in a bigger room, and had another
room for paintings and drawings, and another room for materials, and
another room for a woodworking and carving workshop, and last of all, a
very big swimming pool, lined with different color quartz mosaic tile,
and the walls and ceiling covered in other kinds of tiles. Then I
changed the decor of the rest of the house, using exotic woods and
other materials, understated, but rich and luxurious, and with my new
forcefield lighting system, controlled by wall plates, or by an Adept's
mind. There were stairways and two elevators, which also led up to the
roof terrace.
I filled the galleries with more sculpture I had already designed,
and the paintings and drawings I had recently made. And I made and put
inside display cases, more precious natural gem jewelry, and useful
objects such as boxes and hand mirrors. Desk sets, too. Also, lots of
my miniature light sculpture boxes of different materials, from cheap
to horribly expensive.
Then I invited Ichi, Rose, and Hawk, to see the place. They were
amazed, entranced, and awed. They liked it. I liked the constant
hugging and kissing I received, which I told them, which made them
laugh. I said "I don't need any of this. I'm perfectly happy to share a
bare naked bed and bedroom anywhere, with bare naked people I love.
This is just for show. Well, except the gym and swimming pool." Rose
said "What pool?" Hawk said, "You have a pool here?" Ichi said "Where?"
We went there, and there were a lot of oos and ahs, and wows. By common
unspoken urge, we all took off our clothes and dove in, and had a very
good time. Then we got out, and I led them to a place on the floor
which was made of a cushiony waterproof material, with some extra which
could be used as pillows. Overhead IR lights could be turned on to warm
and dry the people relaxing there, or doing sexual play there, which we
did very enthusiastically, to a great orgasmic finish. Hawk said, "This
whole place is GREAT!" Rose said "I'll say." Ichi just kissed me again.
I said "When you make your own places, I can decorate them for you, if
you want. There are showers and locker rooms there, but you can also
clean up in the pool. It's pure water. No chemicals or salt. It's
purified by forcefield action every minute there are no people in it.
Nothing that isn't pure water is allowed in it then. It even scrubs the
quartz crystal lining. Oh, and the lighting isn't just controlled by
the wall plates. Adept minds can do it too. If you walk in the special
blue light area, you will be instantly dry and clean, including your
clothes. Programed for all known intelligent species. It even cleans
your teeth." That produced some wows. I laughed. Then I turned on the
colored lights in the pool, and there were more sounds of surprise and
wonder.
Then we all ran through the blue light pillar, and Rose squealed with
laughter. She said accusingly, "You didn't say it would tickle!" I said
"Would it have stopped you?" She said "Shut up." We laughed. I said
"Tour for Zander is next. How do you think he will take it?" Rose said
"I don't know, but I suppose you wouldn't let me spy on that." I said
"Right. It wouldn't be nice. Anyway, this is your home too. All of you.
Naturally. Do you think I built it just for me? Absolutely not. The
only real pleasure this gives me is the pleasure it gives people I
love, and family first." We all hugged and kissed goodbye, and they
left. Then I invited Zander.
I took Zander on the tour and said, "I assume you want to be here
with the museum people." He said "I do." I said "So, I thought you
should see what they will be seeing, first, so you can look properly
sophisticated, to their awed wonder." He laughed. He said "Seriously,
thank your for your concern. I don't think any other person would have
thought of that." I said "You're welcome." He really was impressed,
specially about the mind controlled lights and other things. Then there
was the swimming pool. He said "It may come as a surprise to you, for
people who sleep on sand, but we like to swim, too." I said "I hadn't
thought about it, but all the facilities are programed for all known
compatible sentient species, and can be heated and cooled to any
comfort level. That's pure water, and stays that way. No microbes or
other chemicals allowed. Do you know what this area is for?" He said
"For what we would use a box of sand. Relaxation." I said "It does work
for that, and well, with the heat lamps, but we already tested it for
something else, and it works VERY well for that. Oh great! You didn't
get embarrassed." He grinned and said, "Knowing you, I expected that,
and at the first opportunity." I laughed and said, "Right you are!" He
laughed. I said "If you walk into the blue light, it will clean you and
your clothes. Even your teeth." He said "This I have to see." He did,
and jumped. I said "Rose was a little more loud than you, when she
tried it. I have them in the bathrooms, and that feature is intended to
ensure wakefulness. But it can be turned off by the will. Not that I
told her that." He laughed really hard.
I said "This is a house made by an adept engineer, FOR adepts." He
said "I understand that, and it's amazing!" I said "Now you know what
your new school can look like." He said "Wow!" I said with a big grin,
"I agree. Until that happens, do you think your students would like to
play in my home at times? All work isn't good, you know. Play is
important, too. I can set up a Port-All. All I ask is that they stay
out of my galleries and workrooms, and my bedroom." He said "I'll think
about it some." I said "Want to see the new galleries next?" He did,
and we went, and he had a lot of wows he hadn't used yet, to give me. I
showed him the material and shop rooms, too. Then I said, "I have a
problem. To be a proper host, I should have refreshments available. You
know I have a problem with that. I need somebody to handle it for me.
Do you think Hissssner would let me borrow his protocol manager for
help in figuring how to do that?" He grinned and said, "I'll ask."
Before he left, I said, "Anytime you want to use this place, you are
welcome. Just be aware that I am always aware of what happens here,
because I monitor it as a contact point, but I do not invade personal
privacy. When somebody is in a room that I haven't designated as
private to me, I don't look in it when I'm not in it myself, unless
it's really necessary. But, you know, the object sense is never really
off. We can't help being who we are." He said "I know, and I appreciate
your ethics and honesty. My students and I still have a difficult time
understanding and becoming used the the lack of privacy our abilities
cause." I said "We have a trite saying, 'Love conquers all'. It rarely
does, but for this, it is a necessity. When you really love, it's no
longer a problem. I know it's difficult for you, but you must lead in
that, as you lead in the other things they receive from you." He said
"You are wise." I said with my arms open wide, "I am love." We hugged.
Love made the discomfort of our different skins and body temperatures
vanish from our awareness. Then we parted. Then he cried. Then he said,
"So this is what I've missed of you, all these years." I said "And now
you have the ability to keep that memory as alive as you want to,
forever." He nodded, unable to speak. I ported him home, a changed man.
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