Stephen's Secure Blog #97
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 Summer, after the end of year 4 of
his special school.
Stephen's Secure Blog #97 "Blue Star"
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I decided what to do with that gigantic blue star sapphire. Along the
largest dimension, and so the asterism would be in front and back, I
carved a statue of an idealized standing female Tsuriss form, arms
outstretched in front, palms up, like in giving love to the universe,
on an integrated base. I captured images of all the separate stages of
the carving, so there would be a record of how big the original stone
was, and there would be no question of it all being natural. I was very
efficient in the stock removal, so I had a lot of good gem material
left over, and some of them were still very big pieces. I made matching
jewelry of some of the stones, and some big fancy boxes, similar to
what I did with the big rubies. But this time I used as accents very
light transparent pink star rubies, and some light green and white
diamonds. Then I answered the pilled up messages of Hoechess, and we
had a meeting in her office.
I sat, at her invitation, and waited, with a slight smile on my face.
She got embarrassed, and then finally laughed. Then she said, "I had
wanted to ask you why Harditch hadn't returned my calls, but now I'm
not able to do that with the seriousness I wanted to." I said "I see
that." Silence. I grinned. She got embarrassed again. She said "I want
to apologize for what I have done which might have caused you and
Harditch to avoid me." I said "I could require you to specify what you
know it was, but that's not necessary. Zander told me of your calls,
and that Harditch didn't want to return them, but we did not ask
Harditch why. She is her own person. I knew she wouldn't, when you came
out of the meeting with her. I didn't peek at the meeting, but I sense
emotions. After it, yours was pleased satisfaction, and hers was mostly
amusement, with a little disgust. With my intelligence, and knowledge
of the both of you, it was not difficult to determine what was said in
the meeting, which you confirmed to all three of us, with what you said
after it. Rose and Harditch had a very good laugh at your reaction from
the way I sent you back. Until I reminded them what you had lost by
that. Me." She said "Pride and arrogance are common failings of my
species. I have proved that I am not immune to their influence." I said
"You acted out of loyalty to your people, which is commendable, but you
were mistaken in your belief that you could manipulate me or Harditch
in any way. You are a high genius, but Harditch is an order of
magnitude above that, and I am many orders of magnitude above her
level. It is so common, it might as well be an axiom, that a person is
usually unable to accept the existence of or comprehend intelligence
which is higher than their own. Very few people have the humility to
accept that. Be heartened, in that you are better than most." She said
"Thank you."
I said "If you did have a conversation with Harditch, it would
probably be limited to greetings, and comments about the weather. I
have never told her to keep anything from you, and nor has Zander. But
Harditch has the intelligence, and knows enough about us, to know what
should be secret, and why, and that was before she even met you. One
thing might make you feel a little better. You know more about us and
what we can do, than Hissssner does. Ah! I thought you would like
that." She had to grin.
I said "I would like to give your world a gift. Something I have
made, which could be the most precious natural gem in existence. It's a
sculpture, and should be in a museum. Which should have it?" She said
"May I see it?" I said "Yes, but you should know I make the art of what
the material contains within it. I used no specific person as a model.
When I saw what the stone actually was, and wondered what to do with
it, I saw this in it." I showed her the projection, rotating it. I said
"That's the actual size. A light blue star sapphire." She just stared
at it for a while. She said "I wish we deserved it." I said "Well, I
could give it to the museum here." She returned really fast, "Don't!" I
grinned, and she laughed. She said "The Central Museum. The director is
a friend of mine. I'll send a letter of introduction right away." I
said "I will include with it, pictures of the process of cutting it
down from the original rock, so they will know it's from a natural gem.
If you want, I can see that the letter arrives faster than by ordinary
means." She said "You have scheduling problems?" I said "I do a lot of
things all at once, but appearing in different places at the same time
in real form, is beyond me. A friend, who is the most revered holy
person of his people, Rose's people, who adopted me into their clan at
his order, is going to be dying soon. I feel it. If he is able, he will
call for us to attend his final day. If he is not, others will make the
call. We will go."
She said "With great sadness, I understand." I said, "Sadness for
those who will miss him, but happiness for his long and eventful life,
and joy for his new life in the beyond. That's what his people
believe." She said "What is your belief?" I said "As a scientist, I
don't have belief such as that. However, I have acquired evidence and
personal experience which shows that the spirit can survive the death
of the body. Mine has survived many deaths. Evidence indicates what
happens after death is, at least in part, influenced by a person's
strong beliefs. Those who do not have any, and those who believe they
will reincarnate, probably reincarnate. I know the mechanics of the
process, because I have done it deliberately myself. I chose to be my
own great grandson, and died at the right moment, in a way to make that
happen." She said in surprise, "I did not expect this from you." I
grinned, and said, "Isn't that usually the way it is?" She smiled, and
said, "You are correct. If you will wait, I will type the letter." She
did that, and was about to send it in email to the server which would
include it in hard memory to be transferred to the next ship going that
way, when I said, "I can take care of the sending. I just inserted it
into the central email network of your planet. It is now in the
museum's server, and is available to her terminal. She will see it when
next she looks. I made no changes to it, but I did have to read it to
send it, I have to say." She said "That's alright. I assumed you would
have to. How?"
I said "I can tell you some of it. With our trained abilities, we can
control the energies of our bodies. We can manipulate them, and convert
them to different kinds of energies, such as electricity, and in some
cases, send them out of our bodies, such as the force you saw me use to
knock the gun from the hand of an attacker on your planet. With how we
can manage our intelligence and brains, we can program some thinking
functions like we do with computers, which can be actually
communicating with computers. The one I wear on my wrist works under
direct mental control. Now, when you combine all that with porting,
well, that's all I can tell you about what I did, that you can
understand, which I think is more than you expected." She said "Wow!" I
grinned. She said "I hadn't realized there was so much that you can do.
Now I understand why you said the training is so hard, and that those
of lessor intelligence could not accept it." I said "Some emotional
states can limit our understanding. When they are suspended, a person
is open to greater understanding." She said "You expressed that in such
a polite way, I have to thank you." I bowed and said, "You're welcome.
Now I should leave, so I can get back to work on other things.
Farewell." I ported out.
I pulled Hawk and Rose from primary duty at Zander's school, and
assigned that to Mgambe and Grace, with Hassan as backup. Hawk and
Rose, and I, spent a week at their home, and we had a lot of fun in
that vacation, which included installing the blue light personal
cleaning system in the bathrooms. Their parents were very pleased by
them, although they were a little surprised by the wakeup tickle. Then
I assigned Rose and Hawk to work with Ichi and Ivanna on the Centaur
problem. Ichi liked that a lot, and said, "You took your time with
that. I was waiting for them, because I knew you wanted them to have
that experience." I poked him, and he poked me, and then we did what we
usually do in that situation in bed. We squirted very well. After
resting a little, I said, "And Hassan to manage the Van ship captures,
under your remote supervision." He said "That's good. What will you be
doing?" I said "I'll be looking for new students, and building ties to
some world governments, getting more of us GC citizenship, monitoring
all Van activities, monitoring the GC sessions, and exploring for other
opportunities for work for us." He said "That should keep you busy. If
we do everything right, those GC planets and others won't even bother
with asking the GC for help, and will ask us directly, instead." I said
"Possibly. I can't predict that far. One thing I can predict. Sometime
this summer, Rose, Hawk, and I, will be called to attend the passing of
a Navajo Holy Man. We will go. I thought, as their supervisor, you
should know." He said "Thank you. Yes, you must go. On a completely
different subject, my parents thank you for the new samurai sculpture.
They love it." I said "I'm glad. Those kinds of little pleasures are an
important part of what keeps me going." He said "I understand. I have
to say I LOVE the Tsuriss sapphire sculpture." I said "Thanks. I do,
too. There is something about them which makes us all hot for them.
Like now." He grinned and said, "True, and we should take care of that,
and grabbed boners and nuts, and worked our way to squirting heaven.
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