Solomon's Private File #221
These stories about Stephen and Solomon take place starting in
1950's. Stephen wrote about his life in letters to a penpal, and then
in a secure blog, in case he lost his memory again, in the master
computer in his school for gifted students, which he started attending
in 2016 in a new incarnation, until his death. Now his son Solomon is
attending the same school, and is writing in his own secure blog for
his future incarnations.
All characters are fictitious, even if some of them might have names
that belong to some actual people, or act like people we know.
Solomon is 25 in this story, in the Fall of 2051.
Solomon's Private File #221 "Inter-Dimensional Again"
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Israeli Pres and PM asked to see me. Pres said, "You're doing to
America and the rest of the world what you did to us." I said, "Aww,
you're not unique anymore." They chuckled. I said, "Not the same
results, though. You are primed for it. America has so much inertia,
they may never get it in gear. Want to poke them, go ahead. With your
head start, they may eventually come to YOU asking for aid. You've had
a hundred years of forced dynamism, don't let that all vanish in
complacency. All around you are backward countries, socially,
politically, and in development. Now's your opportunity to lead them
all to regional greatness, that they could never achieve by themselves
in isolation. They have seriously competing religious denominations and
tribal affiliations, within and without their nations. You, being apart
from that, can be the force they can rely on for being impartial and
fair. USE that! Don't just share who you are, invite them to share
themselves with you. Make them admire you, but never envious, and you
will lead them to their greatness, with yours."
They couldn't even say wow. I said, "Here's some crystals of this,
but no other recordings. Uses these carefully." PM said, "I don't know
what to say, but thank you for all of this. We WILL do our best!" I
said, "That's good. Somebody else's best wouldn't be good enough." They
looked at me strangely. Pres said, "I thought that was just a joke,
you, really?" I said, "I can't tell you so you will understand, and
what I could say, shouldn't be known. You have to do what you decide to
do, for your own reasons. One of those reasons is NOT just to please
me. In this, think of me as your cheer leader. Now I should be going."
I hugged them, and shifted out, and then practically filled the room
with cheer leader's pompoms. They laughed.
Kam said in my mind, "Wow!" I said, "I tried for that, and they
didn't say it. I'm SO disappointed." She laughed.
I said to Rang on his planet, "Been watching the dimensional techs?"
He said, "I am. No news there." I said, "Think they're the only group
I needed to learn." I said, "Go ahead and answer more of your own
questions." Frustrated grin. He said, "I'm boss here?" I said, "Yes."
He said, "Then please tell the monitors what's happening. They'll like
your new shape changing." I said, "Sure. You know I would have offered
to do that." Pokes and a hug.
I shifted to meet with the centipede people. I greeted my friend
there, and said, "I have solved the problem of our different heights.
Would you like to see the solution?" He said, full of curiosity, "I
would!" I changed into one of his species. He said, "Wow!" I said, "I
agree. I've had to work in very incompatible environments. This new
ability allows me to use my full presence, instead of an image. Some
people can sense the difference." He said, "But how?" I said with
humor, "Always a scientist! I can't tell you, sorry. Even if I knew how
to say it." He said, "I accept that. I knew you were much above us in
personal development." I said, "Speaking of development, there has been
a new one on the other planet. Another group has discovered dimensional
science. And they're no better than the first one. Want to watch what
Rang does about it?" He said, "Yes! And not just because I should." We
shared humor. I projected the image.
Rang ported to the building, and opened the locked door, and walked
in. There was a guard. She was surprised and said, "How did you get in
here?" He said, "I walked. Useful and convenient mode of
transportation." She said, "But that door is locked!" He said, "True,
but I don't bother with locks. I'm here to speak with the leader of
this operation." She said, "You can't. Not without an appointment." I
said, "Then please make one." She used her comm. Then she said to Rang,
"He won't see you." Rang said, "Oh, he's blind?" She said, "He's not
blind! He's a busy man and doesn't have time to talk with you." Rang
said, "Oh, that's unfortunate. Please ask him if he would like me to
give him more time, so he could have some extra of it to speak with
me." She said in surprise, "Can you do that?" He said, "Yes. I can
speed up or slow down time in specific controlled areas. Useful for
getting a lot of work done in an emergency." She said, "That would be."
She told her boss. She said, "He doesn't believe you." Rang said, "He
will. Try to touch my hand." Her finger encountered his shield. He
said, "I'm going to visit him now. There is nothing you can do to stop
me. Have a nice day."
Rang walked away, and she followed. He said to her, "Leaving your
post?" She looked very conflicted. Rang opened the door to the leader's
office and walked in. He said, "I am Rangnorik. We need to have a
little talk about your dimensional explorations." The guard said, "I
couldn't stop him. He has some kind of invisible shield." He said to
her, "I understand. You may go." She did. He said to Rang, "How do you
know what we're doing here?" Rang said, "Very well." Leader was
frustrated. Rang said, "I see you want more. I can see anything I want
to, anywhere I want to. Your pokes into other dimensions are using too
much power, and are causing disturbances. Please stop." He said, "We
should stop, just because you say so?" Rang said, "If I didn't say it,
you wouldn't know to stop. I see you're frustrated. If you don't want
to be, try communicating with intelligence." That didn't help. He
yelled, "Get out! Leave this building!"
Rang said, "No. We aren't finished with our discussion. You need to
choose one of these options. Continue as you have been, and I will
remove all you have here, and your memories of it from you and your
people. Or you could stop this research and do something else with your
time. Or you could agree to be supervised in this research and use, to
prevent possible disasters, which HAVE happened before." He calmed down
and said, "What happened?" Rang said, "Other dimensions can fight back.
One did, and was minutes away from destroying this planet, before an
agreement was reached. They had already destroyed a lot of property,
before they determined the proper location for their final strike." He
said, "When was this?" Rang told him. He said, "So that explains what
happened! This supervision, what would it entail?" Rang said, "They
would assist you in knowing how not to cause harm, and insure that is
complied with. And they would help you to know which dimensions were
safe to explore. At least one of them would destroy your ability to do
that, the instant you looked into their dimension. It is they who
resolved the other situation. I was involved in that, as a student." He
said, "These people would be doing the supervision?" Rang said, "No.
The people who were about to destroy us, will be doing it, as they have
been. They are in another dimension, and can travel between them. Those
who resolved the problem of that conflict, supervise much more than
just this kind of issue. They do watch, though." He thought a while,
and said, "Are you one of those higher supervisors?" Rang said, "I am.
My group is made of people of many planets and dimensions." He said,
"If I agree to this, convincing my people will be almost impossible."
Rang said, "Call a meeting, and with weapons. Tell them what I told
you. Then they will test me, to know I can do what I say I will do." He
said, "This is going to be very interesting!" Rang said with a smile,
"Absolutely!" He made some calls, and they went to a meeting room. He
told them what was said. Most didn't believe what Rang had said. Rang
said, "What would cause you to believe?" One said, "Nothing!" Rang
said, "Very well. That is what you will have." Where he had been, was a
black sphere of nothingness, very difficult to look at. Rang said,
"Next?" A lot of gulps were heard. One said, "You can see anything? The
past?" Rang said, "Yes." He said a date and time. Rang projected him
having sex. He said, "Stop!" It vanished. The others looked at him with
some interested appraisal. Rang said, "I see that some here wish it had
continued." Embarrassed chuckles.
Rang said, "Shall I bring mister nothing back?" They said he should,
and the black sphere vanished from around the man. Rand said to him,
"You missed another demonstration. So, you asked for nothing, and
was horrible!" Rand said, "As you wish. That weapon. You may fire it at
me." The energy discharge didn't get through his shield. When the beam
stopped, the weapon crunched in the holder's hands, into a ball of
compressed parts. Rang said, "I did not use my own energy for that. As
scientists, tell me what that means for you." One said, "Scalable?"
Rang said, "Physically to the limit of my perception, which comprises
this entire galaxy, and other dimensions, and with infinite power." The
crumpled weapon suddenly appeared in Rang's hands, and he said, "And
this involves my method of transportation, too."
One said, "Can anybody learn to do this?" Rang said, "No other person
who has been born on this planet has the required abilities to learn
something of this. When there are, I will teach them. What I have shown
you today of my abilities, you will not communicate in any way in that
another can know of it. Your leader has decided to accept active
supervision. You will comply. That is now established. He has told you
what will happen if you don't. You are unable to. Here is a
communicator that will allow you to communicate with the supervisors.
They are aware of all that has happened here, and can see and hear all
here." Leader said, "Inter-dimensional communicator?" Rang said, "Yes,
but only for these two dimensions. They can show you how to build your
own, when they think you should know. What I gave you, can't be
examined successfully. If you try, you could destroy it, and that will
trigger the ultimate consequence for you, which you will have no memory
of."
One said, "You can actually erase memories? That would mean that you
can see them." Rang said, "I can if I wish, yes. I do NOT wish to do
that! But I must when it is required. If you need a test of that,
consider what happened with the past time test." Chuckles. She didn't
ask for it, disappointing some. One said, "The communicator just
appeared in your hand. Where did it come from?" Rang said, "I made it
in the second before it appeared, out of individual atoms." He said,
"How can we believe that?" Rang said, "That's not my problem. However,
I am unable to lie." That caused a stir. The terrazzo floor changed to
be of a different selection of colors. Rang said, "All the floors in
this building have changed. Something to help you to remember this
event. You know what you should do and not do. I will have no further
contact with you, that you will know of. Farewell." He ported back to
his school, and sent an image to where I was with the centipede people.
Rang said, "Solomon, you have changed!" I said, "Not a bad form.
Can't fall over. A little short, though." Chuckles. I said, "Changing
the floor. Nice touch." He said, "Thanks." I said to my friend there,
"Your antennas. Very sensitive. Are they used in sex?" He said, "Yes
carried over?" I showed him where, and said, "PK stroke." He did that,
and the other cent jumped a meter in the air. I said to him,
"Impressive! I didn't know you could do that." He said, "I still don't
think I can! What was that?" I said, "I have an unusual sensitively in
a sexual area. Rang just touched it remotely. Part of my er, condition
is that I can't help broadcasting the feeling. I'm a little er, popular
in some situations because of it." He said, "I'll be female next
season. PLEASE visit me then!" I felt a mental poke. I said, "I will.
It's going to be VERY interesting. You might want to use an assistant
for this current job then. You're going to be OCCUPIED!" Chuckles. I
said, "I shouldn't get in the way of your newly added work now." He
said, "It's what we need to do, so we do it. Our government is
supporting us well in this." I said, "Unusual for any government." We
shared amusement. We left.
I said to Rang at his school, "You did well. Not like I did before,
and not how I would probably have done it, but very well, as you. I
like that a lot!" We hugged and kissed, and then his students piled in,
and we had a great recess. After that, I said, "Great motivation for me
to visit often." They expressed a lot of agreement physically, which
resulted in another recess. I said, "I should leave, or you'll get
nothing done." Chuckles, and I shifted out. Rang asked to see me
privately. He said, "I sensed something. Your body there, is it fully
capable of reproduction?" I said, "It will be, and very carefully.
Orders. You're going to have to make some new desks someday." He said,
"Good people. I have to like that." We hugged.
My stone said the King GodStone asked to meet with me. I shifted
there. He said, "Another ship is missing." He gave me the info. I said,
"Drive enabler didn't want to use the catalog, assuming he knew the way
better. This ongoing issue needs to be resolved. There are things I
can't tell you, that make this worse than you know. Your Originator's
lives are put in needless danger. They don't deserve that." He said,
"I'll relay that. Thank you." I said, "Ship is where it's supposed to
be now, and the drive enabler is er, educated." He said "A little
singed in the process?" I said, "He probably won't want to share that."
Humor. I said, "Injured Originators are repaired, and they have no
memory of the problem. I do NOT like doing that!" He said, "I
understand."
I said, "There is tech for what your people do. You don't let them
have it, so you can control them better?" He said with some
embarrassment, "There is that reason, and another. That tech is VERY
dangerous. We think no people who didn't develop it, should have it." I
said, "But some do." He said, "But not originators. They are more
advanced in intelligence and abilities than the others. They could do
more with that, and be very tempted to do wrong." I said, "I agree. And
before I asked you." He said, "You were testing me!" I said, "Why tell
me what I already know?" He tried to growl. I said, "Not yet, but
getting there." Amusement.
He said, "We have another possible problem. A group of Originators
are engaged in something we are unable to monitor usefully." I said,
"Could be interesting. Where?" He showed me. I laughed, and said, "I
see the problem. Hedonistic, aren't they." He said, "Oh! Now I
understand. A new thing in erotic stimulation. Too much, though. It's
disrupting their work." I said, "I've instructed their stones in how to
moderate that. Originators probably won't notice the stones' slight
increase in size." He said, "I didn't know you could do that." I said,
"I didn't, either." Shared humor.
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