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Solomon's Private File #434
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 35 in this story, in the Summer of 2061.
Solomon's Private File #434 "New Dimension Student"
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He said, "You can't do that. It's the law. You're drafted, you serve."
I said, "I will not kill. If I were required to do that, and didn't,
others around me who depended on that, could be in greater danger. It's
for them, that I should refuse military service." He said, "Oh, you're
a coward." I said, "What's the penalty for refusing to serve?" He said,
"Death." I said, "I could have gone to a neutral country, and escaped
death. How does my accepting that punishment, so I won't be forced to
kill, make me a coward?" He said, "Oh. Why won't you kill?" I said, "I
believe it's a great sin to kill another person. I just can't disobey
God in that." He said, "Oh, a religious conscientious objector. You
could be a medic, but we don't need more of those now. I'm sorry, but
you'll have to be imprisoned." He called for some armed MPs, and said,
"Take this recruit to the stockade. Dereliction of Duty."
They knew what it meant. On the way to the stockade, one said, "So
you're a coward!" He punched me in the side. I didn't react to it. I
said to him, "I will ask you this once. Please don't strike me." A
major was at the far end of the hall, and saw and heard that. He
stopped. The corporal who hit me, punched me in the side of my face. I
hit him behind the ear with a knuckle, and he dropped like a stone.
Then the others attacked me. I moved very fast, and knocked them out
easily. One was still standing, and he ran back down the hall. The
major approached me, and said, "You haven't run. Why?" I said, "I'm to
be imprisoned. I didn't come here to escape punishment, as if that
could actually happen in this country. I may be called a lot of things,
but I hope stupid isn't one of them." He said, "Then why did you come
here?" I said, "It's the law. I told the sergeant I wouldn't kill. So,
here I am." He motioned to the men still on the floor. I said, "I
didn't say I would allow myself to be beaten unjustly." He tried not to
smile.
The sergeant came running. He said to me, "What happened?" I said,
"One of the men said I was a coward and struck me. I asked him to not
do that. He did it again. I knocked him out. Then the others tried to
strike me. I think you see what happened." He tried not to grin. He
said, "That's not what this private said." I said, "I never lie." Major
said, "I witnessed it. This man told the truth." I gestured to the
detail, and said, "And THEY called ME a coward?" I said to the
sergeant, "And you knew what they would do to me." He said, "Now see
here, no I didn't!" I said, "You know it's happened before. It wasn't
stopped, so they kept doing it. You know it's obvious, and that you
actually approved of it. Is this how you serve your country with honor?
Even though you are in authority over people, they are still citizens
of the country you are serving, and hopefully protecting, and deserve
to be treated with respect and honor, no matter what you personally
think of them."
He said, "You are not to speak like this to me!" Major said,
"Sergeant, attention!" He became stiff as a board. Captain said to him,
"This man is correct in all he said. Remarkable, actually, in
expressing it so clearly. At ease. Tell me, although you dislike what
he said, what do you think of him as a man?" Sarge thought that over,
and said, "I have to admire him for his convictions, honesty, and
intelligence. And he can really fight!" Captain tried not to grin, and
said, "Well said. Why is he to be placed in the stockade?" He said,
"Religious Conscientious Objector. More holy than I thought."
I said, "They're waking up. Might not be in the best of moods." Sarge
had to smile. He motioned me away from them. I moved aside a little.
The corporal was the first to stand. He said to the Sarge, "Careful!
That man is dangerous!" I said, "To many, nothing is more dangerous
than the truth. May I speak to him?" Major said, "Please." I said, "I
came here knowing I would be imprisoned and assaulted, and then
executed. I was unarmed, surrounded by armed trained soldiers,
completely defenseless in your understanding. You beat me. Tell me,
which one of us is the REAL coward?" Silence. Major said, "Answer him!"
Corporal said, "I guess we are. I'm sorry." I said, "I accept your
apology." The man I first hit was hiding that he was drawing his gun.
He yelled, "Watch out, he's going to attack!" He pointed the gun at me
and fired. I moved a little, and the man slightly behind me was grazed
by the bullet, which went through the wooden wall, and embedded itself
in a typewriter a secretary was using. She screamed and fainted.
I moved fast, and took the man's gun from his hand, and handed it to
the sarge, who just stared at me, and then remembered to take it. I
said, "The woman who screamed. It was of fright, not injury." I said to
the man next to me, who was holding his arm, "You're injured. Will you
allow me to help you?" He said, "What would you do?" I said, "We can
assume that won't involve me knocking you out again." Grins. I said,
"Your sleeve already has a hole in it. May add to that?" He said,
"Please." I ripped the sleeve completely off from the shoulder. I said,
"Hmm, military issue." Chuckles. I put my hand over the wound, and it
glowed. A few seconds later, I removed it, and there was no wound. I
said to all, "It would be best if this wasn't mentioned to others. Who
would believe it? I wouldn't want you to have trouble for this, because
of me. Except for this man who tried to commit murder. And he almost
killed a woman in the other room. Did kind of kill her typewriter,
though, by the sound of it." Amazed chuckles.
I said to the Major, "I haven't been sworn in. I'm still a civilian.
Is it actually legal for me to be in a military prison, instead of a
civilian prison?" He said, "It's not!" Sarge said, "It was a temporary
disposition until the prisoner could be transferred." I said, "How many
made that transfer intact? You know." He said, "Not many." I said,
"Abused for not going to war, by people who have never actually fought
in a war. Guilt?" Sarge said, "Oh! I didn't think of that!" I said,
"Major, by the way you move, you have a damaged leg. Your devices
include an award for being wounded in action, and one for heroism. Hmm,
I see the question. I didn't come here completely ignorant. I believe
in some things, but not in ignorance." Some grins. I said, "I sense
some surprise here. They didn't know. The obvious isn't so, to those
who don't care to see. Many people in the military, and in civilian
life, don't deserve the respect they demand. You do deserve it, and
they had better give it to you!" I received a lot of strange looks, and
some nods.
Major said, "You are more than you seem." I said, "How would you know
that, if I didn't seem to be so?" He had to laugh. I said, "Language is
an imperfect tool. We are ALL more than we seem, because it's the fault
of seeming, which is not reality. I seemed to be defenseless, but if
they had paid attention to how I moved, they might have become aware of
how dangerous I can be. People have a tendency to devalue others, to
raise up their own self esteem in comparison. That could be painfully
life altering in some situations." Chuckles. I said, "How many soldiers
are killed in war, because of that?" Serious nods. I said, "We hear a
lot about being prepared for war. Wars end. How many actually prepare
for peace?" They showed some thinking.
I said, "I am willing to swear in, so you can kill me. Could you
actually do that?" One man said, "No!" I said, "But I'm a criminal.
Even in a civilian court, I would be sentenced to death." Major said,
"Are you ordained?" I said, "I belong to no religion known to exist in
the world. I know God directly. I don't need any help in that.
Actually, from what I've seen of some of that help, it would send a
person further from God." Some grins. We felt a strange touch of humor.
I said, "Yes, He has a sense of humor." Some said, "Wow!" I said, "I
agree." One wanted to kneel to me. I pulled him up, and said, "I'm not
God! Be glad of that. If I were, I'd be making some changes. The color
of your uniforms, for example." They changed from brown to pink. I
said, "Ah, can we reverse that, please?" That was done. I said, "Maybe
He's not that much of a clothes stylist. Spirits don't have bodies to
stuff into clothes, could explain it. So, what's next?"
They just stared at me. Then the man who's sleeve I had ripped of,
said, "My sleeve is back on!" I said, "Good. No violation now. It's
been nice talking to you all, but how long are we going to keep this
up?" I said to my shooter, "How do you feel about me now? Still want to
shoot me?" He said, "No sir! I don't want to do that. I was wrong. I
apologize for what I did to you!" I said, "I accept. The secretary
might need some of that, too. Oh, and she's really not ugly." He looked
interested, and we all grinned. I said, "The typewriter is going to
need some payment for." I gave him some money. He said, "I can't accept
this!" I said, "If I beat you up if you don't?" He grinned, and said,
"Then I have to." One said, "Would you really do that?" I said, "Shhh."
Chuckles.
Major said, "Sergeant, see me after hours. We need to create some
kind of report. Somehow!" Grins. He said, "All, dismissed. I'll take
custody of the prisoner." They left. I said, "Oh, I'm SO dangerous, and
you are unarmed. He said, "You won't attack me." I said, "Not
went to his office, and sat. He said, "What am I going to do with you?"
I said, "Well, we can't dance without music." Grins. He said, "Why are
you here?" I said, "The future is made in the traveling present. So, we
said, "Are you from the future?" I said, "Time is complicated. The past
is unchangeable. One can't travel to it in body, only in mind. That's
what history is for." He grinned, and said, "Well said! But you are
evading the intent of my question. You don't lie. I see that can be a
problem when you want to conceal something."
I said, "Did you have to be intelligent right now?" He laughed
loudly. I said, "What do you actually want to do with me?" He said, "I
want to set you free." I said, "Then we'll arrange that. The draft is
only for citizens of this country, correct?" He said, "Yes. You
aren't?" I said, "I'm not. I don't have any identification with me. My
name is on the list, but I er, put it there." He laughed, and said,
"You were testing us!" I said, "In as much as we are all doing that as
much as we can, even if we aren't aware if it, yes. But specifically,
no. I came here to show you me." He said, "Just me?" I said, "Mostly,
yes." He said, "For what reason?" I said, "First, do you think you know
all of me?" He said, "No I don't. You have special powers, I know. You
are very intelligent, and honorable, I know. And just good." I said,
"Trying to suppress my modesty, that's true in a basic way. I said I
know God directly. You haven't considered what that actually means." He
said, "You work for Him?" I said, "I do. That's one of the reasons why
I'm unable to lie or kill. I know, so inconvenient." Chuckles.
I said, "As in the military, there is something like a chain of
command." He said, "Oh! Wow! You said directly! You're his Chief of
Staff!" I said, "Actually, that's more correct than most other ways of
saying it. Would He have poked into my discussion as a friend,
otherwise?" He said, "Verified." I said, "And that wasn't planned.
Annoying when He interferes like that, and He thinks it's funny. He
likes how I work." He grinned, and said, "I can understand that. So you
have a mission. It must be important." I said, "To Him, everything is
important. I do a lot of things, but my first occupation was as a
teacher. I have special schools, for VERY special students. VERY few
can qualify. Such as your son." He was speechless.
When he could, he said, "Have I heard of your school?" I said, "No.
You've read some science fiction. You know about galaxies and
dimensions." He nodded. I said, "My er, position covers ALL of that.
And that's a lot, but I can use as many bodies as I need to, at the
same time, for the work. You know His chief assistant would be a little
out of the ordinary." He grinned, and said, "Yes, I see that now. I
wasn't thinking big enough." I looked at my waist, and he laughed. He
said, "My son can be like you?" I said, "There's only one at my level,
but the next level down, if he applies himself, probably. He should be
able to teleport between dimensions, which is a very rare ability among
my students. Most can just do that inside a galaxy." He said, "Wow!" I
said, "Included." Grins.
I said, "There are issues. If he does come to one of my schools, his
absence would need to be explained." He said, "But he could still
visit." I said, "Until he is able to do it on his own, with assistance,
yes. But you know this all must be secret." He said, "Yes, I do know
that. My sister has been taking care of him, since my wife died. She's
alone while her husband is serving. I could send him to a cousin in a
neutral country, but not completely." I said, "That should work.
Communications are complicated now, so she couldn't check up on him."
He said, "And you would manage that if needed." I said, "Shhh." He
laughed. He said, "He's going to be visiting me tonight. Oh! You knew
that!" I said, "One of my job requirements is to know all. So, yes I
did."
He grinned, and said, "Please visit us tonight. She won't stay past
delivering him. How much time will we have before he leaves?" I said,
"What you need to er fool your sister. Shouldn't be tonight, but you
could tell her then, or the next time. She'll likely want to see him
off. Train station, probably. I could take him from the train. He has
to agree to this, with his full will, or our teaching methods won't
work for him. We never force anybody." He said, "I understand. You'll
do the presentation to him, "I said, "With your grinning accompaniment.
Like that one!" He laughed. I said, "When it's time for me to be there,
say my name, Solomon, and it'll happen. Now for some more proof of who
I am." I offered to hug him, and helped him to sit. He said, "No doubts
at all!" I said, "I knew that. Grins, and I shifted out.
I shifted to the living room of a nice house off of the base. I said,
"I seem to be expected. Hello Stelgarth." The boy grinned, and said,
"Hello Solomon! Dad didn't tell me your lights would be so big!" I
said, "I didn't let him see it. Who needs people throwing buckets of
water on me to put out a fire that isn't?" He laughed. I said to the
Major, "It's my aura. I'll let you see part of it now." He said, "Wow!"
Then I blocked it. I said, "We don't need that distraction, but that
your son could see it when you couldn't, is one of the qualifiers for
my school. And he knows when people are lying." Stelgarth said, "You
have a school! Oh, can I go to it? Please?" I said to his father, "Such
reluctance. SO sad." They laughed. I said, "So goes the presentation."
He laughed some more.
I said, "The school is very far away." He said, "In a different
city?" I said, "Further." He said, "Different country?" I said, "No,
further than that." He looked at his grinning father, and them back to
me, and said, "On a different WORLD?" I said, "Yes, but not as loud."
His father laughed, and said, "I told you he was funny. Oh, even then,
he never lies." Stelgarth said, "I knew that. Is it close to our
world?" I said, "Not close at all, as most people would think of it.
But for them, it's just impossible to get there. You and your father
were talking about galaxies and dimensions. Now you know why." He said,
"OH! Wow!" I said, "I hear that a lot." Laughter.
I said, "The people of my group go places instantly. I think you
could learn to do that. But not if you're so reluctant to go to my
school." He grinned. He said, "What kind of work do we do?" I said,
"Like in an occupation?" He said, "Yes." I said, "Our first duty is to
protect people from US. We have special abilities that can be very
dangerous, and there are some who are not with us who can do some very
bad things to people, that nobody but us can detect. We fix that." He
said, "Good." I said, "Thank you for your approval." Grins. I said, "We
support the advancement of intelligent life. Part of that is not
allowing interstellar war. Whole worlds can be ruined in that. We
dislike that." He nodded. I said, "When different worlds discover each
other, we help with that, because we can talk mind to mind, and learn
languages in seconds. Yes, you'll be able to do that soon. We try to
avoid interfering with societies. Doing that from outside of them,
ruins them. You'll learn about that. We do help some, and some people,
where we can do it without being discovered. People shouldn't know we
are so powerful. They would be very afraid of us, and that would harm
them, not believing we couldn't want to do that. There are a lot of
worlds, but very few of us. We don't worry about not having enough to
do."
I said, "You want to know what we do for play. That would be anything
that doesn't hurt anybody. We have some unique sports. I see your
father is wondering something. Yes." Major grinned, and said, "You
teach fighting arts!" I said, "We teach the whole person, to the limit
of their potential, and we know that better than anybody. And we like
our students to not die. So inconvenient. We help them to learn not to
do that, in ANY situation." He said, "Wow!" Stelgarth said,
"Inconvenient!" I said, "Yes. Dead students are not very attentive. And
they really don't go home when they're supposed to." He laughed. Major
said, "Have any of your students died?" I said, "Unnaturally? Of my
students, no. One of my father's students, who was very old, died in an
explosion. He wasn't taking precautions that would have saved him. He
didn't know there was a bomb where he was. He should have, but he
didn't scan the area before he went there, as he should have, and
didn't have his shield on. Odd thing about that. I asked him after he
died, if he wanted to know how it happened, but he wasn't interested."
Stelgarth said, "You can talk to dead people?" I said, "While they're
waiting to be judged, yes. Most then reincarnate into new babies." He
said, "Wow!" I said, "After they learn to speak, they might say that.
Although, it's mostly just 'no'." Major laughed, and said, "So true!" I
said, "I have children." He said, "And a wife?" I said, "Yes. I was
born like any other baby. I sure have changed!" Grins. Stelgarth said,
"People on other worlds. Do they look like us?" I said, "Some do. Most
don't. The school on my world is only for people who look like them,
because people there are not ready to deal with strange looking people.
Same as this world." They nodded. He said, "So your people look like we
do?" I said, "Actually, it's YOUR people who look like they do." Grins.
I said, "I can use any shape, but I actually did look like this when I
needed a body to live. No, I'm the only one like this. And there is
another issue. It's not good for people to know about special powers
they can't have. They might try to experiment, and, well, die. Most of
my students can't travel instantly between dimensions. You might be
able to. So that's why you will be going to the first school of our
group, where I do some teaching. If you want to." He said, "I DO!" I
said, "Did you need to tell your neighbors that?" He laughed.
He said, "Are there any other people from this world at the school?"
I said, "Not yet. With you will be one other, a girl. There are other
planets in this dimension that have people like you on it, and some of
those are going to be there, too. You're not going to be lonely." He
said, "Do they speak different languages?" I said, "They do, and you
will know the ones you need, when you need them. No, you don't have to
study them. Direct mind transfer." He said, "Wow!" I said, "That
doesn't need any translation." Grins
I said, "Here's how we're going to do it. You're going to visit a
cousin in another country, by train, who doesn't actually know that. It
will look like you're getting on it, but only your father and aunt will
see you do that, but it won't actually be you, but an illusion. That
way the train people won't know anything about you, so they won't know
you're missing." He said, "What if my aunt calls about me?" I said,
"I'll take care of that." He said, "You'll be here?" I said, "I am
everywhere I have ever been, aways. Don't worry, nobody else
understands it, either." Grins. I said, "Want to see what the school
looks like?" He said, "Yes!" I projected some images, and they were
amazed. He said, "How are you doing that?" I said, "I can see anywhere
I want to, and what I can see, I can project from my mind. You can do a
little of that, yourself, now. Want to?" He said, "Yes!" I said, "I
know, stupid question." Laughter. I said, "Think of a picture in your
mind. Something that won't disturb anybody." He said, "You knew!" I
said, "Yes I did. Put your mind behind the picture, and push hard to
shove it out of your mind, into the air, thinking that we should see
it." A rifle appeared in the air, and lasted for 21 seconds. I said,
"That's terrific! Most beginning students can't do that as well. I see
you're not sad about that." Grins.
I said, standing, "It's past your bed time. Not that you're going to
be able to sleep much." Grins. I said, "When your travel plans are set,
and you're ready to board the train, I'll make the strange things
happen. Now for a part of me." We hugged, and I helped him to sit. He
looked at his lap and was embarrassed. I said, "Don't worry about that.
We who see everything without eyes, don't care about what people look
like. That happens a lot in my hugs. REALLY doesn't stop them from
doing it." His father laughed loudly.
Then he said, "Supervision?" I said, "We see and know everything they
do. Boys and girls aren't allowed in each others' bedrooms. Other rules
you would expect, and some you wouldn't. We never have unplanned
pregnancies. We do have our own society and culture that's based on who
we are, and our special abilities. For instance, we sense the feelings
of others. So, we're naked to each other in body and feelings." He
said, "So you don't cover up all the time." I said, "We're all
geniuses. We don't do stupid." He laughed, and said, "Well said!"
Stelgarth said, "It's going to be very strange there." I said, "Yes.
Isn't that interesting?" He grinned. I hugged the Major, and shifted
out.
Our train action went well, and he loves it at school. Naturally!
I told his father that in his home. He said, "I think you didn't have
to do all you did, to take your new student." I said, "True. It didn't
even need to be me who did it. That future that we're always creating?
I can see some of it, sometimes. That enables me to see the big things
that come from very small things. I did some small things in my visit,
that many years from now, will have had the effect of making things
better for this world." He said, "Such as?" I said, "A man will marry a
different woman, than before, and their daughter will save the life of
a man who will become a great inventor. He will be killed before he
invents something too destructive. The killer will die in prison, which
is a good thing, preventing him from becoming a brutal dictator. There
is a lot more involved in this. Alright, you can say it." He grinned,
and said, "Wow!" We hugged, and I shifted out.
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