Solomon's Private File #278
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 28 in this story, in the Spring of 2054.
Solomon's Private File #278 "Tristold The Adept"
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I said to Tris in my next lesson, "Time for another alignment." He
nodded, I said, "Done." He said, "I can feel the change. I can see your
lights clearer. I can perceive further, and more accurately." I said,
"You are at the limit for what another can do for you in that. Your
advancement is now under your complete control. Here is the first
crystal in that." He read it, and struggled not to say wow. I said,
"Eh, getting there." He chuckled. He said, "This is presented very
well!" I said, "You should be noticing something now." He said, "Yes.
This house is in this place for a reason. Energy lines and a node
here." I said, "And Markle's house?" He said, "He would do this if he
could." I said, "With long association, one can know the node better
than others, and better control its use, giving an advantage to the
resident. However, an Adept can only store so much energy in his body.
Evil Adepts can steal it from other people. That also weakens their
wills, allowing them to be easily controlled and made to attack you
physically. Most likely, he won't know how to build and use an energy
storage chakra. You know how. Do it and fill it." He did.
We went outside. I said, "The fire is not lit." He did that from the
chakras in his hands. I said, "And now, absorb that energy, and
extinguish the fire." He did. We sat. I said, "I will now enter your
mind gently. Try to detect me, and push me out." He noticed me, and
pushed. I said, "Harder!" He tried. I said, "As if your life depended
on it, because it is very likely to." He did try harder. Eventually, I
let him push me out. I said, "We will have to do this much more, to
build up your resistance." He said, "My past Master did this with me,
but he was not nearly as strong as you!" I said, "Better for you that
I'm stronger, if not for your present comfort." He said, "Yes, I
understand." I said, "Again!" We did that most of the day. I said, "I
will return tomorrow. I see the question. I don't sleep. I would not
waste the night, when there are other students waiting for me."
He tried to restrain his awe. I said, "Before I go, you have been
curious about what is around my neck." He said, "I sense it more now. A
thing of power." I said, "That it is. At your level, it can aid you in
focusing your abilities, and in communications." I took a small box
from a larger box, and presented it to him. I said, "Open it." He did,
and said, "It loves me!" I said, "And it is now bonded to you, and will
accept no other, until you are reborn, and then will recognize you and
continue that bond. While you wear it, if another touches it, it is
safe. Off of you, if a bad person touches it, that could be the last
thing that person ever does. So, best to not let that happen." He said,
"Is it alive?" I said, "Peculiar to its kind, yes. Well, dead things
don't know love. One more thing. It will not bond with a bad person. It
need not be on a chain. I sometimes wear it in a band on my wrist, but
it needs to be in contact with you, to be safe and work for you, so the
back of the wrist band is made of silver. I can make any mount for the
stone you want. It might be a good idea not to tempt thieves." He said,
"Wise."
He said, "Am I able to defeat Markle now?" I said, "Yes, and no. If
you destroy much of the city, you might catch him in it. Face to face,
no." He said, "I accept that." I said, "When you are able, I will tell
you, which will be when we discuss what it is known about how he
fights." He said, "Oh! But why not now?" I said, "Knowing only the
known capabilities and tactics of your enemy, can be worse than knowing
nothing about them. Think about that." I stood, and vanished. He looked
at Istoler. She looked elsewhere. He laughed.
The next afternoon, I shifted in after lunch, and said to Tris,
"You've had time to think about my last statement." He said, "Yes.
Knowing what to train for, could reduce training for what is unknown
that might be used." I said, "And he could have learned new things
since his last fight. Surviving helps in that." He grinned and said, "I
had assumed that." I said, "Defend your mind!" He did for a long and
exhausting time. After a rest, I said, "I'm going to enter your mind in
teaching mode. No need to resist." I said from inside it, "Follow where
I point, to learn about yourself." I showed him, him. His thoughts, his
angers, his fears, and where his base was. I showed him how to manage
some of it, and organization techniques. I showed him exercises for his
special abilities. I showed him some reflex actions that could be
installed, and he chose some, and their triggers. Then I withdrew. He
said, "Wow! I had no idea such things were possible! What you must know
about the mind!" I said, "Well, I've studied it a little." He grinned.
We went outside, and I said, "You can be attacked with pure psionic
energy. What would you do then?" He said, "I could absorb it." I said,
"True, to a point. What happens when you reach your limit?" He said, "I
hope you will show me." I said, "Prepare to defend!" I shoved energy at
him. It was too much to absorb. He tried to push back with his own
energy. I said, "Good. Don't stop. Note that you can't do this forever.
Now try deflecting it." He did, and it worked. I said, "Good for you,
not good for everything around you. Try deflecting it into the ground
under me." He did, and it erupted. I said, "You are now using your
opponent's energy attack against him by way of his environment. Very
distracting. Stop." We did. I was suspended over the hole in the
ground. I moved over to the undamaged land. He said, "How did you do
that?" I said, "Pikay can do a lot, if only you can think of it. That
will tire you quickly." He settled back down to the ground, and said,
"So I noticed. And that you haven't taught me all that is possible." I
said, "Tell me why." He said, "You want me to think of new
applications." I said, "And some will work better for you, than for
others. We are not all the same." He said, "I understand. Thank you!"
I said, "This next thing will have more than one lesson in it. I will
shove fire at you. Ready?" He nodded. I said, "Defend!" I covered him
in flames. He screamed. I stopped. He said, "I didn't act as fast as I
should. My arm is burned!" I said, "Heal it. Yes. Use your pikay, and
WILL it to heal." He concentrated, and he did it, much to his
suppressed surprise. I said, "You can heal minor things relatively
easily. For serious things, you will need an external energy source.
Broken bones must be set in place before the healing. Yes, it works on
other people, but trust is involved. Those who won't trust you, may not
be able to be healed well. They resist it." He nodded, and said, "You
knew I would be burned." I said, "A chance." He grinned.
I said, "Another kind of attack is with force that pushes. Ready?" He
said, "But how to I defend against that?" I said, "You will do it.
Defend!" I pushed him, and he almost fell. Then he resisted with his
own force, and then used PK to split it in front of him, and the
attacking force passed to his sides. I stopped. I said, "So, did you
really need me to tell you?" He grinned and said, "I did not." I said,
"There is an external danger in these attacks. If it happens in a
building, what you do to defend, could bring down the roof on you. A
very embarrassing way to die." He chuckled, and said, "I understand. I
have to be aware of my surroundings." I said, "And not just because you
can be attacked from behind, and even from under the floor." He said,
"Oh! And there could be traps. He would have had years to construct
them." I said, "You will have a little advantage in something. He is
attacked a lot. Many have tried to surprise him. He doesn't sleep
well." He grinned widely. I said, "And he knows you wanted to fight
him, and have left. He must be wondering why, because that is a rare
thing." More grinning.
I said, "Handling energy attacks depends on your control of energy.
What if he attacks your ability to do that?" He said, "Oh! How is that
possible?" I said, "By applying force directly to your chakras. I can't
tell you how to defend against it. You have to learn that by trying. It
is NOT going to be fun. At the very least, you will feel very odd. And
any other feeling you can experience, including pain. You must ignore
all that, in your defense. We will do this as many times as it takes,
for you to learn this. I will start slowly at first. Defend!" I started
the attack, and he felt awful. He had no idea how to defend, but
eventually, he was able to do some of it. I said, "Stop! This is all
for today. You need some time to recover. You have started to learn how
to defend against this. Rest. I will return this evening." I shifted
out.
That evening, I shifted in, and said, "You have recovered. Now you
will learn the alignment." Istoler groaned. He looked at her with new
appraisal. We went to her bedroom, and she reclined on her bed. I said
to Tris, "Ignore all you perceive, but the chakras. Put your hand over
the base chakra. Exchange its raw chakra energy with your palm chakra,
smoothly. Note that it becomes more settled in her." He said, "It does.
I can see it." I said, "Then each one in turn, always starting at the
base." He did, and at the third eye, it flared into a new
configuration, and at the top, the whole system stabilized. He said,
"The whole set of them improved, and it's more stable than before." I
said, "That is the reason for doing this. Your er, victim shouldn't use
psionics for a week, so it won't lose that stability. Now the
inspection. Push your mind into her brain. I will follow you, and
direct you where to look." We did that, and I showed him were the
talents were seated and how to judge them. Then I said, "And this is
the control of psionic ability. If you use your pikay very gently to
change this part, which is the same for everybody on this world, in
this way, which we are NOT doing now, she would lose all her psionic
ability, until it is restored in the reverse of this process. This
doesn't otherwise damage the person. Now we withdraw." He whispered,
"Wow!"
He said, "I don't have to kill!" I said, "That's true, but your enemy
must be perfectly still for you do do that. Most won't want to feel
very cooperative. Asking them politely might not be perfectly
effective. If your will is stronger than his, you can will him to
sleep. He'll probably need it." Smiles. I said, "So, if he survives
being defeated, you could do this. But the future would still be in
question. He could raise an army to attack you." He said, "You will
tell me how to stop that?" I said, "Yes. You tell him not to do that,
while you're deep in his brain. Say the command with force, and it will
be obeyed. Better make it very clear and easy to understand. The
unconscious mind is very stupid. You can remove the command the same
way. No, it's not something you need to practice. But if you have to,
you can use animals for that. In fact, you can ride along in their
minds, and experience their lives, if you want to, but you will NOT
want to be in it when when it dies. That shock is NOT fun to
experience. In the brain, push out into all of it, and the senses. You
can be an observer, or you can take full control of the animal, but one
that acts against its nature, could put it in severe danger. They can
make useful spies, though." He said, "Oh! That's in interesting idea!"
I grinned, which he returned.
I said, "You still need to practice the usual things, and for the
rest of your life. I will return to torture you tomorrow." I shifted
out. The next day we did the mind resistance in the morning, and the
chakra attack in the afternoon. on the fourth day of that, I said, "You
are sufficiently skilled in these things. Here is another crystal in
advanced energy manipulation. He read it, and said, "This is very
interesting!" I said, "Of course." Chuckles. He said, "May I keep these
crystals?" I said, "You can't forget what's in them, so why do you need
to keep them?" He said, "To teach with." I said, "The proper answer.
Yes. You will not become your best without teaching." He said, "Thank
you!"
He said, "When will we discuss his tactics?" I said, "Now." We did
that. He said, "How do you know these things?" I said, "Some knowledge
you don't need, can be disturbing, not just distracting." He said,
"Please?" I said, "I can see anywhere I want to on this world. And that
includes all of the past." He said, "Wow! Will I be able to do that?" I
said, "If you live long enough, and practice enough, you can improve
your abilities. How far you will go, and in what direction, is yet to
be determined. There is something of you that you might not have
noticed. You can no longer lie." he said, "Oh!" I said, "That can cause
some creativity in how you express yourself at times." He laughed, and
said, "I think so!" He said, "Would you tell me your name?" I said, "I
am Solomon."
Then he had a thought, and said, "Can you disable his psionics from
here, without his knowledge?" I said, "Yes." He said, "But you won't.
It's my fight." I said, "Not mine at all, but yours only if you make it
so." He said, "I should." I said, "Your duty, Guardian of the Light.
Here are your crystals, labeled. Here's some money. No, take it. I
don't need any. No, she doesn't either. I can make anything needed." I
made some more gold coins appear in my hand. He didn't say wow. We
grinned. He said, "When I leave, all this will be gone in an instant?"
I said, "Eh, half an instant." Chuckles. He said, "How many students do
you have?" I said, "Individual personal students, millions, at the same
time." He nodded, and said, "You are a God." I said, "People have
different ideas about that kind of thing. There is One Creator of All.
I am his Senior Agent." He said, "I suspected." I said, "I know that."
He said, "You will be watching?" I said, "I have interfered in this
world as much as I should. Any more, would damage the future. If I were
Then he was alone at the outskirts of the city, dressed in a new
fancy harness, with a full backpack, and a big smile.
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