LiTTLE CHERiNE Book 02 - post200
I cannot guess at the colours he sees best, nor what his tastes are, but I had noticed what he looks at the longest while on Earth and I just hoped it was not because he saw the colours as something gaudy or offensive.
1212
The normal landline telephone rang and I picked it up.
“Mr Teller?” The caller had a Cypriot accent and it took me a few seconds to remember it.
“Mr Petsas?”
“I see you remember me. I hope you and your lovely wife are well?”
“We are surviving.”
“So I hear. I have been approached to act as a mediator.”
“I do not mean to be offensive, but I could not think of a worse choice.”
“That makes me the best choice Mr Teller. They were looking for someone who would not favour you.”
“The converse though would not be true. I would have to presume that you do indeed favour them.”
“Your presumptions do not concern me Mr Teller, all I need to know is whether you agree.”
“Tell them they have made a very good choice. For me that is. You rub me the wrong way Mr Petsas and I will not feel any need to be polite, as I would have if they had chosen more wisely. Do you have a message for me?”
“They said they will give me instructions once you have agreed. You are a foolish young man to go up against such powerful people.”
“Failure decides who is foolish.” I closed the phone.
“Robert, why did you talk to that man?”
“The spider asked him to be the go-between. They have just made a mistake by choosing someone I dislike and don’t trust, it will only make me be more careful - and difficult. I think our Cypriot friend is due for a big surprise. He is looking forward to gloating at our expense and it will be very difficult for him to stomach having to negotiate their surrender.”
Alki gave a wolfish grin. “I think our enemy is the type of person who shoots the messenger.” Soon as he said it, he realised from my expression what I was thinking. “Oh no Roberto, not him too? He is not your responsibility.”
“Pappou I’m just glad he loves to eat meat or else he would become the protector of all the animals.”
“Are you calling the Cherinians animals, Cherine?”
“Do not answer him Cherine, you were not that subtle!”
“I will say this once only. Every single human being is a Cherinian, or at least is potentially so.”
“Not that Petsas!”
“Maybe, but let him prove it, not us.”
Alki shook his head. “Cherine, you know the story of the wolf who put on a sheepskin so as to get amongst the sheep to eat them? Our Roberto is a sheep putting on a wolf-skin to go amongst the wolves.”
“He’s going to eat them all Pappou.”
I said, “Not he, Cherine. We. This is our battle, not just mine. Without help I would not win.”
Her eyes widened, “He thinks we are helping him!”
1213
“My love, you are. I could not attack, but you showed me the way. Is that not helping? The battles are not fought and won or lost just on the battlefields. If I have a weakness and you turn it into a strength, then that strength and victory comes from you.”
“I bet you pappou, by the end he will make everyone believe they won this war for him.”
I think he was teasing me when he told her, “If he thought we would believe him koroula mou, he would not be saying these things.”
These days alone with her were starting to work their magic, it was a glorious feeling to hear her teasing me again. I let the banter continue as it stopped them from worrying about what must be happening out there at this moment. It was late evening when Solomon and Ordinx arrived.
“I have news for you Robert. We have identified close to five hundred. As our people identify someone, they keep a watch on them and that way we have been led to others. The powers of about one hundred and sixty have been disabled. Not one of them have reported the fact yet.”
“The people of both of you have performed a miracle, please pass on our thanks. I think I can speak for all the Cherinians when I say we are in your debt.”
Solomon answered, “Please do not speak of debts when ours hang so heavily upon our shoulders.”
Alki asked, his voice puzzled, “Solomon, how is it that you are able to use our idioms. I cannot imagine your people having shoulders.”
“At our first meeting with Robert, when he allowed us to go through his mind, one of our first tasks was to learn the language. In the beginning most of it did not make sense to us, but since coming to Earth and living in a human body they are becoming a little clearer.”
“Speaking of bodies, these that you have ‘created’, do they see, hear, taste and feel as did the two which we lent you the first time?”
“We have modelled these on those.”
“In that case, Ordinx, I have prepared a gift for you. Would you come see it?”
Samantha portrait
He stood in front of the painting, puzzled so I explained.
“I know that you cannot take it with you, at least, not now. I have painted your friend Sam for you, and this portrait of her belongs to you. For the time being you will have to be content with carrying the memory of it.”
“I understood that. I am trying to understand the symbolic nuances.”
“What symbolism?”
“The two obvious ones are the pose, her arms stretched out. The second is your choice of colour.”
“The first is meant to show her as she is, a girl with her heart and arms open, welcoming strangers as friends.” I did not want to give my real reason, in case I’d made a mistake. “The second, I did not paint any symbolic meaning into it, it was just the colour I felt suited her.”“I was right then, it does symbolise something. Could it have been you were alluding to her practical nature, the way she keeps her feet on the ground - as you say it?”
“She is starting to acquire or exhibit some of my crazy traits and yet despite that, I would say you are right. She tends to understand best what makes sense.”
“She is a disappointment then to you?”
“Good god! What could have given you that idea. No Ordinx, I am extremely proud of her.”
“It is good then. I will keep this portrait in my mind and treasure it there.”
“Once you move to a world of Meli’s we will find a way to bring it there to you.”
1214
“I would prefer it stay here Robert. In my own body I would not see it as you intended it. This colour is broken up into reds with green and yellow in it. My people will marvel at her in this impossible colour when they share her portrait from within my mind.”
“Solomon I have no gift for you yet. I hope you are not slighted. To create something of any value I cannot demand it of my imagination. At it’s own time your gift will come to my inner eye and I will paint it.”
“You have another eye inside you!?”
“It was an idiom Solomon. It means I see a picture within my imagination, my mind.”
“I shall wait for your inner eye to see without any slight being taken.”
That got all of us grinning and he thought we were happy he was not slighted.
Αλέξανδρος Ζήνον Ευσταθίου
(Alexander Zenon Eustace)23rd March, 2019
* posted on Steemit: 23rd March, 2019
@nikosnitza
Καλημέρα, μόλις το διάβασα.... Για να δούμε τώρα τι θα κάνουν οι εχθροί....
αυτό το κομμάτι μου φάνηκε εύκολο οπότε δεν έχω ερώτηση να σου κάνω. :)))
Pos perases to savvato-kyriako sou? Eihes ora me ton gio?
Edo mas kopsane to revma gia 2 imeres (apo Tetarti proi eos Paskevi, stis 3 to proi), apo zimia pou pathane (o logos einai geloios) kai arhisane amesos na mas kovoune pali 4+4 ores kathe mera.
Otan kovoune ksafnika to revma, kanoune zimia kai sta computers, kai apo ehtes to apogevma palevo na ftiakso ena computer apo diafora pou eho, pou den doulevoun. Den ksero pos, alla to katafera (pragmatika den ksero pos, apo mono tou, mou fenete, argise na doulevei).
Isos o Robert me parakoulouthi sta kryfa kai evale heri...
:)
Καλημέρα, Παρασκευή και μισό Σάββατο τον είχα... Μετά έφυγαν εκδρομή για Θεσσαλονίκη μένει η αδερφή της Δώρας εκεί...
Είναι τριήμερο στην Ελλάδα σήμερα είναι 25η Μαρτίου είναι είναι ένας εορτασμός για το 1821....
Το άλλο σούκου θα τον έχω όλο εγώ όμως.
Αυτό το σούκου πέρασα ωραία όλο έξω ήμουνα με φίλους καινούργιες γνωριμίες και η ζωή συνεχίζεται... για να δούμε ο νους μου θα φύγει από τα παλιά και θα ξεκινήσει κάτι καινούργιο.
Γιατί δεν βάζεις ένα ups για να σώσεις τον υπολογιστή σου? Οι διακοπές ρεύματος κάνουν ζημιά στους υπολογιστές μπορεί και να τους κάψει..
Εσύ αν εξαιρέσουμε τις διακοπές ρεύματος πως τα πέρασες το σούκου?
Ευχαριστώ πάρα πάρα πολύ για τις ψήφους.... Πραγματικά δεν έχω λόγια να πω για το τόσο μεγάλο δώρο....
Χαχα με τόσα που έχω πάθει τα τελευταία χρόνια μέχρι και βιβλίο θα γράψω :)
Aft to "σούκου", den to eiha ksanadei.
Pos perasa? opos synithos...diavazontas kai grafontas. Ta post pou kano edo den einai tipota, se noumera, apo ekeina pou kano sto Gab. Ekeino einai politiko site kai tsakonome me ollous tous tharraleous pou lene tha kanoume afto kai tha kanoume ekeino, tous leo, nai, olla tha ta kanete stin fantasia sas, san na pezete rolo se sinema. Stin pragmatikotita den ehete to kouragio na thimosete ean sas viasoun ta paidia sas.
Stin Ameriki, Stin Agglia, stin Germania...kai see polles alles hores, pairnoun hiliades paidia kathe mina apo tous goneis tous, me tin dikaiologia oti oi goneis den einai kaloi goneis, kai ta vazoun se 'spiti' kai otan iremisoun ligaki ta pragmata, sta hartia vazoun oti vrikan ali oikogeneia na tous megalosoun kai den epitrepete na dosoun to onoma, mipos pane oi goneis kai tous kanoun kako....alla, ta paidia afta polounte gia sex kai gia ta nefra, kardies kai alla organa.
To pio teleftaio einai oti polounte gia to aima tous. Ehoun vrei oti ean tromakseis kai vasaniseis to paidi, to aima tous gemizei me orismena hymika kai afto voita tous ilikiomenous na neosoune ligaki.
Eho video pou dihnei oti to ekane afto i Hillary - ekove kommatia apo ta prosopa paidion, ta kollouse sto diko tis prosopo, gia na allaksei o tromos kai o ponos to aima tous, kai meta ta skotonoun.
Niko to pio sihameno gia mena einai oti to kseroun afto stin Ameriki (einai enas apo tous logous pou eipe o Trump oti tha tin vallei filaki), alla den kanoun tipota, elpizontas oti tha pethanei, gia na min rezileftoun olloi tous sta matia tis Evropis. Vlakeia afto pou kanoun, epeidi afto kanoun kai oi Evropaioi politikoi. Koitakse posoi antehoun kai zoun epano apo ta 100 hronon.
Ean eimoun 20 hronia neoteros, kai eiha lefta, tha organona omada gia na tous timorisoun ollous me ta idia pou kanoun sta paidia.
Ean mporeis na to vreis me ellinikous ypotoitlous, des to ergo Jon Doe Vigilante (2014). Tha sou kanei to aima sou na vrasei.
Kamia fra skeftome oti ean ehei gennithi mia Cherine sto planiti mas, vlepontas poso ehoun sapisi oi koinonies mas, ehase to kouragio tis kai pethane. Opoios ehei san Psyhiko Doro to empathy, pos na anteksi? I zoi tous tha einai kolasi.
Θα το ψάξω να το βρω αυτό γιατί με ενδιαφέρει....
Αλλά εμείς σίγουρα δεν μπορούμε να κάνουμε τίποτα.... :(
Έτσι τουλάχιστον νομίζω
Sou ta vrika, kai me Ellinikous ypotitlous (des to Full Screen, aksizei - kai ohi me to tilefono sou. Vale to sto laptop sou.)
Θα το δω με την πρώτη ευκαιρία!!!!