Solomon's Private File #20
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 13 in this story, in the Spring of 2039
Solomon's Private File #20 "Energetic Amphibian"
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I'm 13 now. Kam is 12. She became fully psionic without any problems,
and ran through the Senior Adept training. I'm very proud of her, and
let her know it a lot. We had hardly any hugs and kisses left over. She
said it was due to my teaching PK. I said, "You are a child of Stephen
and the next best Adept, who are genetically dominant. My help? Not a
chance! Their genetic help, a lot. Who YOU are, THAT'S what did it. I
kind of like that." She sure didn't hate what I said. I had to heal my
lips.
I said to my special students, "What shall we learn today?" George
said, "But you're the teacher!" I said "Sure. That's why I said
something first." Kam almost fell off of her chair, laughing so hard.
They smiled and looked at her. After she recovered, she said, "I've
grown up with him! You don't know what that's like! He's worse than Dad
with the humor. He cracks everybody up. It's really bad when what he
says sounds normal at first, and then your brain twists on itself. He
did that here. That's why I laughed." I sniffed, and said, "At least
SHE appreciates me." There were some fake sympathetic awws. I ported a
dagger to my my right hand, and stabbed myself in the left arm with it.
There was blood. They were slack jawed surprised. I said, "Ed, certify
what I did is real." He gulped and said, "Oh it's real, alright!" I
said, "Monitor, and tell them how I'm doing it." The 'it' was happening
as they watched. It healed, and without a scar.
Ed said, "Wow! You used only PK to heal!" I said, "Right, but it took
a lot of energy. For something more serious, an individual would have
to do it in stages over time, or get help from a group of people. How
you do it is simple. You push your PK at the injury, and apply your
will, not in specifics except to hold the wound together if you can't
do it with something like your hand, but just to heal. Your body knows
how it should be, and will heal the way it's supposed to. Before each
of you is a sterile scalpel and disinfectant swab. I can't tell you to
harm yourself. I can't even want to ask you to. But if you want to try
a very small cut, you can see if this works for you. There is no real
danger. We seniors can heal it if you can't, with chakra energy." They
all tried the test, and did well. Tim was watching very carefully. I
think I was the only one who noticed that he did it himself, too.
I said, "You all did well, just as I expected. Want to know how I
knew you would?" They were still in partial shock, and only nodded. I
said, "Because I did it before I was a Senior. The same time I first
used PK to pick things up, but I didn't understand then how it
happened. Now we do." There were a lot of wows. I said, "I have to tell
you, that dagger attack sure got their attention!" They had a lot of
face splitting grins. I said, "Mine, too. I didn't plan that. I just
did it on impulse. Oh boy was I surprised!" They laughed well.
I said, "Remember the lightening ball?" They all nodded. I said, "In
old times and places, something like that used to be called a
laughed really hard. I said, "They tried really hard to get me to tell
them what the future lessons would be. Now you know one of the reasons
why I refused." More laughter. Kam said, "And the other reasons?" I
said "Er, ah, I didn't actually know." More laughter. I said, "Which
thing I choose depends on how the class is that day. Who wants to tell
me why the amphibian got it's name?" Silence. I said, "Want to invite
Pete to tell us? It's the least we could do." They did. He said in the
air, "Wood fireplaces. Hearths. Seriously startled salamanders would
crawl out of the burning logs they had been er, snoozing, even
hibernating, in. They were then thought to be fire elementals, not half
roasted amphibians." I said, "Thank you, Scholar Pete."
I said, "So, would we like to try and create something like that, but
vegetarian style?" A few groans with the grins, and then all yeses. I
said, "We should try to be at least a little safety conscious. So,
let's go downstairs to the locker room." We all did, and into the big
shower room. We sat on the floor in a circle. I said, "Tim, please
stand by as safety officer." He said, "Duty accepted." I ported some
old standard lead acid car batteries, all linked into one circuit, with
two big leads sticking up in the middle, to the floor inside our
circle. I said, "More power to the people! Er, us. You all have some
independent partitions now. We'll take advantage of that. In the old
days, power pole teams usually did this. I see some questions. Up until
now, all I've shown you were my own discoveries in this life, but I did
know about them in past lives that I remembered when I became fully
psionic, after I discovered those things. This one I didn't discover in
this life, but I did know about it in a past life, where I might have
been the world's foremost researcher of psychic things before my Dad
came along. Ohboy, did THAT get their attention!" Grins and chuckles.
I said, "To start, I form a hollow ball of PK in the air, using one
partition. Using another partition, I make a PK connection, two of
them, actually, to the leads of the battery pack, and then into the
ball of PK, and then I will the current to flow into the ball, managing
the energy as I want it to behave. And there it is." It was just like
before. I said, "It didn't have to look like that, but I willed it so.
Question for you; what are the uses for this?" Daren said, "To scare
the living daylights out of people!" They laughed. I said, "Absolutely
correct. Even more effective after they saw other uses for it." Ed
said, "Weapon. Like an incendiary bomb." I said, "Right. For some time,
it was the Sorcerer's long distance destructive weapon of choice. Can
somebody tell me more of why that was so?" Kam said, "Oh no! The energy
in it could make it self perpetuating!" I said, "Yes, and intelligently
directed." Galya said, "That could make it look and act alive!" George
said, "But they didn't have batteries then." I said, "Oh, but they did,
but you're right in essence. They weren't powerful enough to do this.
nodded.
I said "One more aspect to this, I'll show you in miniature form."
The ball shrank to the size of a marble. I ported a tree branch to the
floor. I said, "Ed, please take care of the smoke." He said, "Will do."
I moved the ball of energy to and into the wood branch, and it came out
the other side, leaving a charred and smoldering hole, and some smoke
that quickly vanished. They were in awe. I said softly, "The wars of
the Sorcerers were REALLY bad things." I made the ball vanish, and then
the branch. I said, "Now, one at a time, each of you will make your own
energy ball. Try to make it no larger than 5 to 8cm, to conserve
battery power." I called off their names in order. They all, with some
false starts, were successful.
I said, "I think you are wondering why I'm teaching you this horrible
weapon. It's a skill that really helps in other areas, and it's
something you might encounter in your duties as a Guardian, so you NEED
to know about this." Elise said, "How do we stop this kind of attack?"
I said, "You can take it over with your own PK and will, and even
transform or absorb its energy if you want to. The strongest will wins.
That's too dangerous to practice in this place. And I don't think you
will need to. I think you will be more intelligent and have a stronger
will, than anybody you will face. And be a lot nicer, too." They had to
smile at that. I said, "Remember, you can combine all these uses of PK.
We could have used any shape we wanted, instead of a ball. For
instance, an amphibian, or a man. A burning man, who burns himself
through walls, made even more realistic with projected illusion." I
said with projected pain and sadness, "That wasn't just used in war,
but to make false Gods for people to worship. Oh, there goes Pete
again!" Some wows and laughter.
I said, "That's all for today. You probably won't guess what the next
lesson will be." Kam grinned, and said, "Will you?" I said, "I'll tell
you when I do. At the next lesson. Do you know I get dragged to a
meeting after these lessons. No? Didn't notice the grill marks, I
suppose." They laughed, and then they all hugged and kissed me.
At that expected meeting, Dad said, "Grill marks?" I said, "Sometimes
feels like it. You might be a little more intense in your interest than
you realize, from my point of view." Pete said, "Part of that is your
fault. You make it so interesting!" I said, "So, if I can make it
boring, we can skip these meetings?" Dad said, "Er, no." We grinned and
poked each other. He said, "But I do apologize for making you
uncomfortable. Still, it's amazing how much I missed of psionics. I
just ignored that most of the world didn't use chakra science, yet
still did things that only psionics could do." I said, "I was amazed,
too, the more I learned then." He said, "The legends. Did you have the
flying carpet?" I said, "Yes. Similar to your tech, so I won't be
teaching it." He said, "Djin?" I said, "That's a tough one. I don't
want to. There were three kinds; human, created, and extra
dimensional." Pete expressed surprise. He said, "Your name! I get it!
This isn't the first time you had it." I said, "Yes, and Dad was my son
with the Queen of Sheba, which he remembers. Please keep it private."
He gulped, and said, "Yes." I said, "I don't want to get noticed by the
who let the Djin out issue, which could happen even if I just write a
Guardian book about it." Dad said, "I think you should, but give it to
Tomba to give back to us when or if we need it." I said, "Will do."
I said "An issue with that. His successor. He won't want to live
forever, even he could." Dad said, "Yes. The next won't be with us so
completely. I'll work out something before I go." I said, "I won't live
as long as my body could, any more than you will." He said, "Got an
estimate?" I said, "Vague. Maybe 200, max. Another reason we need to
keep our identities secret." He said, "Right. Wondered if you had
thought of that, but I shouldn't have." I said, "We're upsetting Pete."
Pete said, "Don't stop!" I froze. He chuckled. He said, "Can you really
live that long?" I said, gently, "We all can. Yes, you, too. All
Advanced Senior Adepts can, if they work at it. We shouldn't, though.
We aren't meant to live that long. Does things to our minds. Not good
things. Sorcerers did that in the past, and that's what caused a lot of
the wars between them. Arrogance advances with age, with the kind of
power they had, that we have even more of now." He said, "But we have
love now." I said, "But will we always? I've seen really bad things,
terrible things, come from power. I've DONE some of those things!" I
cried. They hugged me with love.
I said to Pete, "Have you thought of living forever?" He said,
"Sometimes. Not seriously, though." I said, "Please do it now, with all
your intelligence and knowledge." We waited, Zen style, which was not
waiting. After 14 minutes, he said, "Right. Not going to do that. Not
even tempted. Regular span for me, and I can't wait to do it all over
again!" We all hugged and kissed with love.
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