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Solomon's Private File #81
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 16 in this story, in the Fall of 2042.
Solomon's Private File #81 "Client Girlfriend Trouble"
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At the meeting after the new dimensions action, after George sent
them his report, Pete said to me, "You can make contacts through
dimensions now?" I said, "Yes. You want me to tell you how. I can't. I
could only show you, but you wouldn't get it. I'm very sorry." Mom
hugged me and said, "That's alright. You can already do things we
can't, so this isn't something we shouldn't have expected. We also
can't port between them?" I said, "Right. I can't even describe it.
There aren't words, well, except for one. Weird!" They smiled. Ichi
said, "So they look like us. That's a little unusual." I said, "Here we
are, with who we are, with what we can to, calling other people
unusual." They grinned and chuckled. Ichi said, "I get it. Frame of
reference determinate. What about the others?" Nigel said, "I suspect
something. You showed the others what Rangnorik's people looked like,
but not the reverse, and didn't include vision in the communicator you
gave them." I said, "Right. Might have reduced their cooperation to
show them that in the beginning. I wasn't sure how they would react.
Here's how they look."
Hawk said, "Centipedes!" I said, "Not hard shelled, though. Nice
people. Great humor. They have voices like ours. That helps." Mom said,
"So you know how all their equipment works. Both sides?" I said, "Some
of it." She said, "All?" I said, "Well, er, yes." Chad said, "I'm sorry
He said, "You know ALL about them, both of them, all their science and
history, don't you." They stared at me. I said, "You think so because
that's what Dad would have done?" He said, "No. He wouldn't and
couldn't have in the time you had there, even if he had wanted to,
which he wouldn't have. But YOU could and would." He said, "Oh. Well,
you're right. They're just so interesting!"
They chuckled, and Mom hugged and kissed me. I said, "I don't expect
they will be troubling us. And I don't plan to explore other
dimensions. At least not in person. For a while. Never know if you can
get back until you try, and don't come back from the last one." Percy
said, "I know you, too. I expect my S Kids to have your updated Unified
Field Theory soon, if not already." I said, "Do you guys really have to
do this?" Hawk said, "Yes." I poked him, and he laughed. Percy said,
"So you have. When I get back, should I expect to see a new star drive
in the works?" I said, "You're sharper than I thought." He grinned and
said, "No, just greedy."
Ivanna said, "Is Rangnorik going to be able to port home when he goes
fully psionic?" I said, "He's something like an S Kid. Unique among his
people. Just like I could, he can port now if he tries, which he
shouldn't. Dimensional, I can't tell now. I hope. I think you think a
little too much of me. I learned how to port between dimensions by
changing my personal time during it, like Dad did in his last
broadcast, so I could see and study what happened fully and without
missing anything. And when I arrived there, I copied all the minds in
the room into mine." Mom said, "Did your father give you that time
adjustment information?" I said, "He didn't. Not time diving, either.
The Buddha did." They exchanged knowing looks. Nigel said, "I think we
didn't think more of you than you are." I said musically, "You're not
helping." Chuckles. I said, "It's all archived. A boatload of crystals.
You KNOW I would make sure it can't be lost." Mom said, "Did you copy
their past lives, too?" I said, "Yes. Oh, and Rangnorik is going to
remember some when he goes psionic. I should be there for that." There
were some wows. Chad said, "Give me the genetics?" I said, "All you
want, in these crystals." I ported them to the table. I said, "No, you
can't eat them!" Laughter. I looked at Percy, and shook my head. He
nodded in understanding.
Ichi said, "We are the junior executive committee, aren't we." They
looked at each other, and nodded. I said, "It's not like that! We all
are Guardians! A full team, always!" Hawk said, "But some are fuller
than others." I said, "Oh, now we talk diet!" He poked me, and we
chuckled. Mom said, "When we can't monitor you, do you monitor
yourselves?" I said, "Absolutely! We are more afraid of going bananas
than anybody. Really not appealing, so we don't slip up on that."
Groans, chuckles, and pokes. Mom said, "I just thought of something.
Kam knows all this." I said, "We share a lot. You suspect something. So
do I. But let's not influence things by mentioning it. Mysterious
ways." She nodded, and we hugged and kissed. I think Chad might have
guessed, but I don't think the others did. I might have a bidimensional
nephew or niece someday.
Pete said, "Something doesn't add up. Why were they really spying on
us?" I said, "It's about time somebody asked that." I got really poked.
I said, "When they poked into this dimension, their instruments showed
Earth the most active in high intelligence in the area of their
emergence. They wanted to learn from us, and we here are the most
intelligent, so they watched US. Really blew their minds." Chuckles I
said, "They were doing this for months, and learned some languages, but
they never really understood us. They were physical scientists working
in secret. They didn't understand much at all about people, and even
less about their own selves. They were continuing their experiments,
when they discovered another dimension that had a higher energy level
than theirs. They got greedy, and managed to take some of that energy,
but it was damaging that dimension in the location of the others, who
found the source of their problem, but couldn't communicate, so instead
they had to destroy the problem, but their aim was very imprecise. They
were getting better. Our spies became desperate, so they decided to ask
us for help, but were too cowardly to tell us why, and were afraid we
wouldn't risk going there, so they thought up a trap for me. Naturally,
they underestimated me. You don't try to fool somebody who is much more
intelligent than you are, and hope to succeed. They really sucked at
getting that seed, so I helped them to do it." Groans and pokes.
Ichi said, "Can they watch us now?" I said, "They have the ability,
I said, "We're watching for that. A tiny fraction of a second peek, and
we'll know, and peek hard back. We don't like what we see, we take care
of it. I don't mind scientific exploration, but not by such reckless
fools, and definitely not them doing that here." Cheers.
In our S Kid meeting, speaking in shielded mindtalk, I said, "They
know we are the bosses now, even though we don't try to be unless our
abilities are necessary. They know we can decide not to be monitored.
They know we can communicate with each other without them knowing. They
suspect I can block 4th viewpoints. And they're REALLY curious about
what advanced things I might have shared with you. I think that's kind
of interesting." They grinned. Daren said, "Give us less work now? They
know we do other important things now that they can't do." I said, "Oh
how you suffer!" Pokes. I said, "I think we should go along with them
as much as we can. It's not good for anybody to frighten them, and they
ARE our parents who we love." They agreed. I said, "We still have our
main part time mission, looking for trouble in the galaxy. Before we
start messing with other galaxies and dimensions, I want to have this
one fresh out of all surprises." They agreed. George said, "Going to
visit other dimensions?" I said, "Physically, when Rangnorik can, yes.
Almost all of their people are at least a quarter psionic, and have
some active PK. I want to study how that affects their society, and
check out other planets in their galaxy for things like that. I want to
know if Rangnorik can be beat, before we set him up with a school
there." George said, "You can see his past lives. I can't. Know why?" I
said, "I don't know, but we can guess. Maybe it helps to remember some
of your own, first. Could be age. I'm a year older." Daren said, "And
riper." We chuckled.
I said to Rangnorik, "So, what do you think so far?" He grinned and
said, "Amazing! George gave me this language in a second! And all the
laughed, and said, "They warned me about your humor." I said, "If only
they had warned ME about it." He laughed some more. I said, "Do you
have a family back home you would want to visit sometimes?" He said,
"No. I'm alone. WAS alone. That's why I volunteered to come here to
this world." I said, "You are welcome here. Let this be your home for
as long as you like. Unless you would like a different one. We have
others." He said, "But the most powerful are here?" I said, "Yes. That
might include you. We'll have to see how you progress. Do you know that
we do work things?" He said in awe, "I saw you do that!" I said, "We
fix problems that other people can't. Some of the problems some people
don't think are problems, like when one star empire attacks another. We
help them to not do that, as nicely as possible. We do other things to
help, too, but not so much it causes people not to want to help
themselves. We do not act unfairly, and most of all, we do not kill.
I said, "George explained the house and our society's rules to you,
which are different from the other societies on this planet. If you
disagree with any, please let us know. You are our first student here
from another planet, and the first in any of our schools from another
dimension. That will make you very interesting to all of us." He said,
"And to you?" I said, "Er, not so much. Before the first second I was
there in your dimension, was over, I copied all the minds of those
people into mine. So, I know a lot more about your people and where you
came from, than most of our people here." He said, "Wow!" I said, "We
hear that a lot." He grinned. I said, "In your studies, I will be
including the equivalent of what you learn here, of your own people. I
er, copied some universities there." He was too surprised to say wow. I
said, "So, any questions?" He said, "The sleeping. Not alone. Can I be
laughed and made it jump. I said, "And talented. Tonight it is, but not
always. We all should share, for good group health." He said, "I
understand."
They treated me unusually at the office again. The office manager
said, "I have to know!" I said, "Not this time. Didn't happen on Earth.
Sorry." She nodded. A client walked in. I took his file. The interview
went well. Then he said, "There is a rumor that your office is very
good with counseling." I said, "Please tell me the source of this
rumor. If we are that effective, I want to know exactly what for." He
was silent. I said, "I wish you good luck in finding employment
elsewhere." He looked surprised, and said, "You mean I'm not approved?"
I said, "I asked you a question that is standard procedure in the
Bureau, and you didn't answer it. We should assume that you would do
the same after you were hired, and then you would be let go. So, why go
through all of that, when we can prevent that now?" He said, "It's that
secret?" I said, "It's a matter of principle, not degree. You, a
civilian, have information that is not authorized to be shared outside
of the Bureau. If you worked here, you would be required to assist in
the investigation. You are refusing to do that now. How can we expect
you to do the work here that would be required of you?" He was silent.
I took the information from his mind, and ported a picture of the
source to a drawer in my desk. I took it out and showed it to him, "Is
this the source of your information?" He looked very surprised. I said,
"It is. Tell me, when did you think your evaluation actually started?"
He looked more surprised, and then dismayed. I wrote in his file, and
sealed it in his envelope, and handed it back to him. I said, "Please
take this with you back to personnel." He said, "I'm not approved?" I
said, "Policy. All applicants that are able to walk on their own, go
back to Personnel after our evaluation, and we don't discuss the
results our evaluations." He said, "Oh. But the walk on their own?" I
said with a smile, "Some of us have been attacked at times. All my
psychologists are black belts. Oh, and we do employment evaluations.
The actual Psychology Department does profiling and treatment." He
looked disgusted with himself. He nodded, and left.
I called Personnel, and said the name of the person I wanted to see,
saying the reason was "serious but confidential at this time." She was
in the building, and was told to report to me. I ported a copy of her
personnel file to my desk. She came in. I asked her to be seated. I
said the name of the recent applicant, and said, "How do you know him?"
An assortment of feelings came from her. She didn't want to say. I
waited. Finally, she said, "He's my boyfriend!" I said, "Tell me why
you think I want to know that." She said, "I don't know." She believed
that. I said, "Did you know he applied to work here?" She said, "Yes."
I said, "Did you wish he would work here?" She said, "Yes." I said,
"You know of the Bureau's security requirements?" She said, "I do." I
said, "And as regard to my Department?" She made a silent "Oh!" She
wasn't feeling very good then.
I said, "He told me that he had heard we in my Department are good
with counseling. I asked him how he knew that, and he refused to tell.
I had to disapprove him for not answering. I showed him something. One
thing he reacted to was your picture, in a way that told me you are his
source. Did you know that we will have to leave if what we do here
becomes public?" She nodded. I said, "Why do you wish that to happen?"
She said, "But I don't!" I said, "But you acted with the knowledge that
you could cause that. Do you often act contrary to your own wishes like
that? Do you have a mental illness?" She cried, and said, "I didn't
mean to!" I said, "An accident? I don't think so. Please be honest with
me." She said, "But I'll be fired." I said, "Maybe not, but you WILL
be, if you don't cooperate here." She cried some more, and said, "I
didn't take the rule seriously. I didn't think just telling one person
would hurt." I said, "So, how many people did he tell it to?" She said,
"I don't know. He wouldn't do that." I said, "I see. Just like you
wouldn't. And you didn't even tell him it was a secret, did you." She
cried some more.
I said, "You are intelligent and mature enough to know what I've been
saying. You knew it was wrong. Why did you really tell him?" She said,
"I wanted to look important so he would like me more." I said, "Right.
Did it actually work like you hoped it would? Think carefully about
it." She did, and said, "I see what you mean. It didn't. Wow! You
really are a great psychologist." I said, "Er, thanks. Could be he
might actually think the less of you for betraying a confidence?" She
looked surprised, and said, "Could be." I said, "Honesty and loyalty to
your commitments aren't virtues for nothing. They are very good things
to have, because when you don't, that causes a lot of problems you
really don't want to have." She said, "They say you are wise and kind.
I see that. I'm very sorry for what I did." I said, "There still is a
problem. Your boyfriend. Did his interest in you noticeably increase
when he discovered where you work?" She thought, and then looked
surprised again. I said with a smile, "You know, your face is an open
book." She had to laugh in reaction. She said, "I see it now. He told
you, thinking it could enhance his chances for approval. But it was not
giving me up that killed the deal." I said, "He might still like you.
He doesn't know he was disapproved. But he won't be called back. You
can tell him there is a long waiting list, and others might be more
qualified, and that's true. But he might still blame you, saying that
you were testing him, even that I made you do it. If you are not fired,
he might really believe it." She said, "Oh! I didn't think of that. But
you did, reputation proved." I just sighed. She chuckled.
She said, "I think you are giving me some choices here. I can quit
and maybe keep my boyfriend who might have used me, or I can dump him,
and you might let me keep working here." I said, "Those seem like the
options you have, which could be a lot better than they could have
been. But I'm not asking you to dump him, just that he might do that to
you, or worse. You have caused the situation, you have to create your
own future from it. If you quit, you will have a good reference. Or you
might be able to stay, depending on how things work out. You DO know
better now. Would be a shame for the Bureau to waste that. I don't
believe in punishment, just correction. Are you corrected?" She said
with emotion, "Yes I am!" I nodded. She said, "I want to stay, more
than ever, actually. About him, I won't know until I see him, but I'm
afraid now." I said, "Were you living together?" She said, "No, thank
God." I said, "Well, if you don't agree to see him. I just don't know."
at their expense?" She laughed well. She said, "Great jokes! We all
love them. No, I mean the danger watch." I said, "I expected you to ask
for that. In place. Personnel knows I wanted to see you about something
serious but confidential. I have to tell them something. Should I say
it was a private counseling issue not affecting job performance? The
counseling you said we do, for real, which we actually just did?" She
had tears and said, "You would do this for me?" I said, "For the new
and improved you, yes." She cried some more. I said, "Are you going to
keep THIS secret?" She said, "I see what you mean. I WANT to tell
everybody how great and kind you are, a LOT. But that would cause more
problems, and make me more untrustworthy. A test." I said, "All life is
a test. A lot of tests. That's why we're all so testy." She grinned. I
went around the desk, and offered to hug her. We did, and she almost
fainted. She said, "I don't know how to thank you enough, but I think
you know how I feel." I nodded. She walked out, head held high.
I called Personnel and told them what we had agreed to, and they were
satisfied. Then, one by one, the school kids came in and hugged and
kissed me. The secs really wondered about what caused that, but they
just had to wonder. Ivanna ported to my office, and hugged and kissed
me, too. She said, "Only you could have done that." I said, "Only
because I did it. I think you underestimate the rest of us. I think
they could have done just as well. In fact, I KNOW Galya could." She
looked thoughtful and appreciative. She said, "You could be right." I
said, "I try!" Poke. We chuckled. What I got from Galya in my mind, was
a big burst of love. I didn't complain at ALL.
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