Solomon's Private File #404
These stories about Stephen and Solomon take place starting in the
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 33 in this story, in the Winter of 2059-2060.
Solomon's Private File #404 "In The GC"
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The Posintan Ambassador to the Galactic Council walked into his
office, and was surprised to see me there. We sat. He said, "I was
wondering of you were aware of the conversation I had with Rose's
opponent." I said, "Not wondering now." He grinned a little cautiously.
I said, "It wasn't necessary. He knew as much as you did about us, if
not in exact particulars." He said, "He held that back!" He laughed at
my grin. I said, "You should have thought of it, in that we could have
stopped you, and didn't. You gave up an advantage!" He said, "Yes I
did. He won that competition. This is going to be fun. An equal I can
compete with here." I said, "Time will tell, if equal is the right
designation." He said, "And you are beyond this kind of competition." I
said, "Fortunate for you." He said, "It IS! Does he know things about
you that I don't?" I said, "You know it would be unfair of me to say
anything that would interfere with your competition." He said, "I do
know that, but I had to try. A true Games Master you are."
I said, "Actually, I am, and in venues you can't conceive of. Er,
oops?" He laughed. I said, "When are you going to have an embassy on
their world?" He said, "We've requested, so it will be as soon as they
allow." I said, "Do you think they will try to have one on your world,
first?" He said, "Don't do that!" Grins. I said, "You're not used to
such a competitive species who is so like your own in that. I'm going
to enjoy watching this much more than you're going to enjoy being in
the middle of it. I'll know what's happening of all parts of it, and
you won't." He said, "Yes, and I would like to know how you can do
that. How did you know about those reluctant people?" I said, "Use your
own reasoning. A hint. It should be obvious we can't port to a place we
can't see." He said, "Oh! I feel stupid." I said, "A correctable
condition, only on the realization of that." He said, "Ah! More
wisdom." I said, "I try. He didn't know about our porting, but
suspected something similar. Yes, you told him something new." He
sighed.
I said, "Your fault wasn't in underestimating him, but in your pride
of knowing more about us than most." He said, "Hmm, I see that now.
Another mistake. Does he know that?" I said, "You know the answer to
that." He said, "He does. Argh!" I said, "That, too. Do you think you
had lost your edge, due to lack of competition here?" He said, "That's
it!" I said, "As good excuse as any." He said, "I'll take it. Are you
going to tell him about this meeting?" I just grinned, and he growled.
I said, "What would a Games Master do?" He sighed, and said, "He would
tell both sides the score. Tell me, have you hugged him?" I said, "I
did in the first meeting. No, he didn't enjoy it nearly as much as you
did. I'm not sure how he would take it if you told him that." He said,
"I don't plan to!" I said, "Too bad. It would have been very
interesting." He said, "It would, but it's not going to happen." I
said, "If it was reversed, would HE tell you?" He said, "That er, man
would!" I said, "You were going to use bad words. For shame." He
laughed.
I stood, and so did he. I said, "It's usually only on the first time
that it happens. Sorry." We hugged, and that was all. I said, "But I
have another way to cause it. Remote stimulation of the nerve endings.
VERY intense." He said, "An experiment! Please?" He undressed, and I
did the love stroking, and he erupted strongly in seconds. Then I
cleaned him up, and bowed, and shifted out.
I shifted to the outer office of the other Ambassador, not noticed. I
walked through his door, and he said, "Greetings Solomon." I said,
"Greetings, Chandri. I am acting like a competition Games Master of
Posintan, in this. I told him the score, and now I'm here to tell you."
He grinned widely, and said, "It's true we're in a competition." I
said, "The score is in your favor. He didn't realize it was a
competition until I told him, and he has an extra leg with which he can
kick himself for that lapse." He laughed almost hysterically. I said,
"You knew some things he didn't, and he knew some things you didn't.
Only you know both now, as he now knows. He's feeling very foolish now.
You won the first encounter." He said, "He doesn't know he should
strongly wish to see you fighting the assassins. Would you show it to
him?" I said, "Yes, if he knew to ask." He said, "Oh, that's bad! I
like it." Grins.
He said, "Why are you doing this?" I said, "For one, would you if you
could?" He said, "Yes, I think I would." I said, "You both need it.
Stupid people all around you. It made him soft. I don't like that. Now
you both have competition to keep you sharp. I like that." He said, "I
understand. How do you know these things?" I said, "Not by looking. One
more thing. He didn't tell you all he knows." I grinned, and faded out.
Hawk and Mom were still laughing. He said, "You tied him up with that
last bit!" Mom said, "Do you think he's going to ask to trade?" I said,
"Not outright, but yes. Both at the same time, actually." More
laughter.
I said to Hahchet, of the green scaly people, "Other people are
claiming to do the healing broadcasts." He said, "Yes, but I can't
correct that without coming out into the open to the wrong people." I
said, "Are there any right people here?" He said, "Not so much. We
should be expelled from the GC." I said, "As if they could actually do
something so useful, or even rational." He grinned, and said, "They
need more of your political comments." I said, "Not when I would have
to explain them." He said, "So sad!" Grins.
I said, "I'm known. May I mess with them here?" He said, "Please!" I
the President of the planet in secret. I walked into his office and
said, "The others here can't see or hear me. Actually, they aren't even
aware of time passing. You agreed to keep this meeting secret. Do you
not know what secret is?" He said, "I do, but they should be here." I
said, "Had you decided this when you agreed to keep it secret?" He
said, "No, later." I said, "All of my group are able to detect lies.
Don't do that again." He said cautiously, "What would you do if I did
lie?" I said, "Standard practice in my group is to lay a compulsion on
the person that would prevent them from saying anything but the truth.
That's seriously against the politician's job description. Hmm, I think
I should wait a little for my monitor to stop laughing. Er, that didn't
help." He almost laughed, himself. He said, "Monitor?" I said, "All in
my group are watched for the record, and to prevent us from doing bad
things. We never have, but we're not taking any chances. So, about your
lying?"
He said, "I won't do it with you again. I disobeyed you. I didn't
realize you have the power to enforce your will." I said, "So it's only
power you respect?" He said, "Er, I have to say it is." I said, "There
are two issues I'm here for. The first one is, do you value your
membership in the GC?" He said, "We do. Is it in jeopardy?" I said, "It
is, if I make it so. They don't know all the bad you and your people
are doing to the people of other worlds. Will you work to stop that?"
He said, "I can't. I have no power off of my world, and not enough on
it to change that." I said, "I do. My father put all the Van on their
world, and blockaded it. I am maintaining that. I'm more powerful. I
can do it to this world, easily." He said, "If I didn't know that was
done, I wouldn't believe you. I don't know what I can do about it, but
ask the GC for help." I said, "That's a start. I'll watch for that. A
warning, I can see anywhere I wish to, in real time. I never lie. I
can't. Anything else I can do, but not travel into the past." He said,
"Bring back the dead?" I said, "If they haven't reincarnated, and agree
to it, yes, but I won't. Not in my job description. God is MY boss. I'm
not His."
I said, "There is another problem. Somebody is claiming that they are
doing the healing broadcasts, who are not. God is doing the healing in
them. I'm not allowed to let lies about Him to go unchallenged. You
know who is making that claim." He said, "I do. If I can't cause them
to stop that?" I said, "One option is that the broadcasts stop. I am
the leader of the group that's doing it. If you cause those who make
the false claim to announce they are lying about that, it will serve
you well in my esteem." He said, "Other options?" I said, "I would say
a lot of things you really won't like in the next broadcast. Usually
when that happens, God speaks, too. Some of that hasn't been nice. And
he has the power to take me over and use my abilities against my will,
and HAS done it. Some worlds no longer exist, by his order. These
broadcasts are his gift. He really dislikes that gift to be misused."
He said, "The person who's responsible won't believe this." I said,
"I can bring him here instantly." He said, "That could help." The man
appeared in the room. I said to him, "I am Solomon. I see you've heard
about me. I'm going to push into your mind what's been happening here."
He almost jumped out of his scales. I said, "Oh, an athlete." I said to
the president, "One of my monitors is an athlete of laughter, and I
seem to be helping him exercise that." He almost laughed. He said, "How
you moved him here, what is your limit on that? I said, "Any
reasonability solid mass, any distance within a galaxy, and to other
galaxies through dimensional relay. I recently transported a whole
solar system to another galaxy. I wasn't sure the sun wouldn't explode
in that. It didn't. The people were a little surprised at their new
night sky." He said, "I would assume! Why did you do it?" I said, "To
save them from extinction were they were. Yes, I could move you just as
easily. And all of your species, wherever they are, but those who are
in my group wouldn't like that."
I said to the newly arrived man, "You are claiming to do the healing
broadcasts. You aren't. Why did you lie?" He knew the consequences, and
said, "So you will make me not able to lie, if I lie to you?" I said,
"As you know, yes. There's more you should know. The reason why
somebody lies, is also addressed with different consequences." He
gulped loudly. He said, "Are they painful?" I said, "Some have screamed
so long and loudly, they needed a healing to be able to speak. I can
show you that happening, if you wish. He was a rapist. He relived all
the pain he caused, for a whole hour at a time, sometimes three times a
day. He is NOT popular in prison, among those with sensitive hearing.
Here is the first instance of that." I showed him the polygamist. He
said, "Stop! Please!" I did. I said, "All the harm you've ever done to
others, all the pain you've felt yourself, all concentrated into a few
minutes. I can give you a sample of that now." He said, "Please no! How
do you know such things?" I said, "As God knows, with His curse of a
gift, I know all, and that includes the past, and I am required to use
it where it will do good for the most people. Name something you know
in the past, and I will show it to you." He said, "You could read my
mind to see it." I said, "Yes, but only as you remember it. I will show
it, and YOU." He did, and I showed him doing it. He said, "I believe!"
I said to the president, "They often choose sexual things. As if they
could think of nothing else." He grinned.
The liar said, "If I admit to the world I lied, I'll be ruined." I
said, "You don't know what REAL ruin is. Your choice. You do it, or I
do it in a broadcast. Then God might do more to you for lying about his
gift." He said, "That's happened?" I said, "Yes, but who cares about
lawyers? Oh, well, so you're one. It's going to be interesting. I've
changed my mind. I still have to ask you to do it, but not so
strongly." He shouted, "I'll do it!" I said, "Oh. Alright. Don't waste
any time with that. One time God caused me to do a broadcast against my
will. That was a real surprise. No telling when He'll do it again. At
least he didn't embarrass me in it, as he likes to do. No, I'm not
President said, "Now that somebody's claimed it, they need to know that
it's somebody else." I said, "Tell them it's being done by members of
my group, trained by Stephen and his students." He said, "Will you be
doing the next one?" I said, "I shouldn't unless I have to. Never know
what He'll say in it." We felt a touch. I said, "God. He thinks that's
funny. Well, I would, in his place." Awe and grins.
The liar corrected his lie in a few minutes, right from the
president's office, to the news media. President said he would work
harder to bring his people in line, but it would take a while. I said,
"I can easily put all your pirate space ships on the ground here, and
inoperable. But it would be you who would have to deal with a lot of
angry pirates." He said, "We have prisons. You can provide evidence?" I
said, "Full HD recordings of the past." He said, "If you will give me a
few days to prepare, I request this!" I said, "Good. Say my name and
I'll hear it. Don't, well, we won't discuss this right now." He nodded.
I said, "One more thing. I request that you do not reveal anything of
what was discussed here with me. Well, you actually can't." He grinned,
and said, "I expected that. You've been a lot more pleasant than I, we,
deserved. I said, "You don't decide what you deserve. None of us do for
ourselves, actually." He said, "Wise. Thank you." I shifted out.
I said to Hahchet, "So, how did you like it?" He grinned, and said,
"You didn't lie, but you were very deceptive." I said, "Not as much as
you think. Very little, actually." He said, "Oh! That's interesting!"
Grins.
Hawk said, "So you really can bring back the dead." I said, "Make a
new body, stuff the soul into it, no problem. Going against God, BIG
problem." He said, "I understand. The other things you said, also
true?" I said, "Yes, of course." He and mom said, "Wow!" I said,
"Included." Pokes, but with love.
A week later, the president of Hahchet's people asked to see me. I
shifted to his office. Hahchet was monitoring. I said, "So, we're set
to do something?" He said, "We are!" I said, "You sound happy." He
said, "I am. I didn't realize I could be about this. I WANT to make
things right!" I said, "Doing good things for your people can cause
that, in good people." He said, "I'm good?" I said, "Don't make it
temporary." He grinned. He said, "Can you see in my mind where I want
the ships?" I said, "I don't have to read minds to know them. I know
the place. Prison?" He said, "As I think, also." I said, "Some are less
guilty of crimes than others. I will be watching that proper justice is
given to each person on the merits of the case." He said, "Good." I
said, "I won't bring in all at once. Some are interacting with the er,
public. I would rather not frighten people who don't deserve that." He
grinned.
I said, "Some of the pirate ships belong to victims who still live,
or to their heirs. The information about that will be provided. You
know what should be done. If the ships are returned to them, I may add
something to them in compensation. They may think it came from you. You
may let them think that, or you may tell them I put it there, after
retrieving their stolen property. Don't tell me or decide now. We know
things can change. About half of the ships are now down on this world.
Two of them are not able to land. They're in orbit. Here's the
coordinates." I gave him a paper. I said, "There will be more in orbit,
soon. Some in FTL drive will take a few more minutes to step down from
that. Don't want to shake their teeth loose." He laughed. He said, "You
can do this to ships in that state?" I said, "Yes. I work in other
dimensions, too. Those are just a little smaller than usual. I told you
about what I can and can't do." He said, "Oh. Yes. Everything but
travel back into time." I said, "For now. Who knows, I might be able to
do it someday. If I do, I already did. Confused?" He grinned, and said,
"Always, with you." I said, "More ships in orbit. Two more minutes, for
the rest that can't land. Here's a list of all of them. Here's another
list of the people on the ground who knowingly supported them in crime,
and here's the evidence. Problem with judges accepting any of this, I
have to be told officially. Then I can do interesting things about
that." He grinned.
I said, "There is an issue. All of the ships that have weapons, well,
those things don't work now. Original owners want them working, they
have to do it themselves. I just don't do weapons." He nodded. I said,
"That's all for today. I'll be back tomorrow with the rest." I shifted
out. I did go back, and all was as before. I said to Hahchet, "All
done." He said, "Some of those ships will be auctioned. Some buyers
might be future pirates." I said, "No they won't. Such people won't win
the auctions, even if nobody else bids. Do you think I would allow it
to happen again?" He said, "No, I just wanted to hear you say it." I
growled, and he laughed. I said, "Yes, you can tell Zander. He's your
teacher. You don't hide things from him." He said, "Thank you. How did
you know, without reading my mind?" I said, "Everybody has that
problem. I know all. That means all thoughts. I don't need to read
anything. It's all in me." He said, "So that wasn't deception? Wow!" I
said, "The only deception was my manipulating him with the lawyer
comment. Yes, you can tell Zander, but you and he shouldn't tell
anybody else. They wouldn't believe you, and they would bother me about
that." He said, "Very likely." We hugged with love.
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