LiTTLE CHERiNE Book 02 - post094

The girls all wanted to go dancing so we arranged for all of us to meet there. Socrati promised to bring Henry.

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What a sight met them. The Sparklers, our World and the multiple Worlds of our friends. We danced amongst our friends, exchange kissing with all of them and then Socrati arrived with his wife, Katherina, Andrea, Britta and Henry. I had warned everyone he would be fearful. I had wasted my breath. He was not fearful, he just did not care to dance with anyone but Socrati and his group.

Aganthi was dancing with all of us, her foetus glowing brightly within her. Suddenly it swerved out and over to Henry. Socrati cautioned him, explaining why she is so small. She sent out to him a few motes of love and welcome. He fled into the void.

*Go after him love.*

*No. Let him have time on his own. I think for the first time ever he has tasted a love he could accept. It is probably hurting him.*

It had been special when the girls all used to dive into me and we would implode as our World. To have the damn thing sitting there only needing us to fly into it, pissed me off. I sent the girls as Meli wanted to check on her dolphin people. With my sliver in each of them, it was almost as if I were there. The I only welcomed them, but did not communicate anything else. I wondered, could it be sulking? When they left, returning to me, I realised it had not even updated itself on the changes in them, their experiences and growth. I contained myself, hiding my anger.

My new baby was cradled within me and all were ready to return. I called to Solomon.

*Solomon, will you talk to me?*

*What is there to say at this time Robert?*

*I have a question and maybe an offer. It was never very clear to me, it has been impossible for me to visualise because of the great time that has passed. Before the explosion that sent your people to the void, were they all Thinkers - or was it always that your people had Thinkers as separate beings from them.*

*We evolved.*

*My thoughts are thus. With such a few of you as Thinkers it must be easy to come to agreement. If being Thinkers is so good, why do you spend most of time hibernating? Does it perhaps get boring?*

*You are preparing to insult us again, or have you done so already?*

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*Neither. All I ask is that your Thinkers think upon this. How would it be to have so many billions of Sparkler minds full of life and questioning everything. Minds hungry for knowledge. I also come to offer you help in learning to become the void. Before you accept, think. If you learn, will it be good for your people? Will they still have a mission, a reason for existence or will everything become too easy, requiring no effort - as at that energy rich area you told me about.

The void is not my home and will never be. For you it is your home. Solomon, there are some good points to being given this knowledge, but there are many bad points. Even counter-evolutionary.*

*I will think on it, but you may, I think, prepare yourself to teach us if your offer is honestly made.*

I felt saddened by his response; it was expected but still, it showed they have reached the end of their existence as a specie. It may take millions of years, but they will one day no longer be around to enrichen the tapestry of life.

*Your form fades Robert. You are saddened that we will accept?*

*I will return soon and teach you. My sadness is no concern of yours.*

“They have but a handful, relatively speaking of course, of Thinkers. With total control of their environment they will multiply, but the ease of surviving will reduce the Thinkers even further. One day our descendants will collect them as pets. They have taken too many wrong turns.”

“Why are you blaming yourself then?”

“Before I learnt how to become the void, they had a bright future. I have become the instrument of their destruction. I said it was their choice, but the honest truth is they never had a choice. We would never settle for an alien specie having control over the environment we need as a specie to continue our existence.”

“Then refuse to help them, if it is as you say, for their own good.”

“If I refuse, they then will be certain we plan to use it against them - I do not know what their nightmares are made of, but I can tell you, they will all die. Their will to life is not strong like ours is. The only strength they have had for millions of years was their mission - they have lost that. Even if I were to die, my soul destroyed and the knowledge lost, it would still be too late. They now know it is possible.” Cherine gently took my hand in hers. “Oh my love, you thought me a god! I am destroying a whole species older than our solar system. Perhaps that of Ordinx too. I am but a fool who has been lucky a few times and now is a curse for all life.”

Henry jumped up, his hand shaking as he pointed it at me. “You destroyed your World when I was inside it with Cherine! I thought it was the void!!”

“It was the void Henry. I am the void.”

He fell to his knees, crying and begging for forgiveness for having attacked a god and so on. My eyes filled.

“For god’s sake somebody, help me out. I cannot take this anymore.”

I jumped to our flat in Cyprus, Cherine still holding my hand came with. Soon Wendy and all my girls arrived.

“This is rude, we better return. I see Aganthi did not come.” I saw it too at the same time as they did. She was in the void. Through my sliver I heard her.

*Solomon, you will be the cause of the death of your people and of my Robert. I have come to make you an offer. Take my life and that of my child, the child of Robert, as a sign of his sincerity. The knowledge he offers will destroy your people and him, he sees it clearly. You saw his sadness, now you see his wife and child as an offering that you may believe in him.*

*He has sent you to do this?*

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*No! He does not know. Well, he knows now, he is also listening - but he does not have the right to stop me. I make this offer because I love him more than I love myself or my child. Please take me and do not kill his soul.*

*I never asked or wanted to kill him. You have made a mistake. Go back child.*

*You don’t understand! He can see your people dying as a specie and he blames himself for finding this power. It will eat at him and kill the Robert who has never known to give anything but love. Either way I lose him. I would rather lose him by dying, by my daughter dying, than for us to live and see what he is dying from.*

*Solomon, you cannot accept her offer.*

*I would not Ordinx. These humans they are very strange. Do you understand her?*

*I do! That is why I sought them out as friends. The flow of life is very strong in them still. I have been thinking. He has attacked both of us. Me by giving offence and you by taking the void as he calls it and making it his playground. He even turns your food into poison. Why has he done this to both of us. Does he seek to make us enemies?*

*He has offered to teach us to take control of the void.*

*And now this child of his twice over is offering their lives in exchange for his, but his is not in danger?*

*Correct.*

*If this were not Robert I would think some error has occurred. With him things are never so simple. I have searched far back into our history. I have gained a slight sense of what he is trying to do to us. There was a time when our people searched for knowledge, we thirsted for it. We hoped for wisdom. Now we only wish to be left alone in the hope that we may live forever. Not for any purpose other than that of eternal life.

I have watched him fight and insult his own World. It has been alienated from him too. Solomon, I think this child is genuine in her fear. She loves the Robert who has become so precious to us, and sees he has taken a wrong turn somewhere, leading to those qualities in him dying. I can understand one life being offered in exchange for another, but here we have two lives, one still unborn, being offered for the qualities of love another being gives to all. Can you accept it, can you reject it?*

*What are you suggesting?*

*Accept her offer on conditions. Her life and that of her child is to be forfeit to you at your call. She may return to Robert and her world and they may live with him on a strict condition. If he ever shows you, teaches you how to become the void - their lives are forfeit, yours to do with as you wish. You must force him to not teach you.*

*The madness of this Robert has affected you too.*

*His daughter Samantha my friend, she told me a story. There were a people, of their world, who were dearly loved by the god of man above all others. There are places on their world that are energy rich. This god, he did not give them that. He gave them the poorest desert, where there is almost nothing to support life. This way he showed them his love. For they had to struggle to survive. They became smarter than their neighbours. They grew and multiplied and though hated by many, they became the strongest people on their planet. Robert loves us as that god did. He asks of us to choose the hard road so that our people will grow and find a destiny worthy of them.*

*Yes, it is the madness of Robert that has changed you. Child you have heard. Tell him the life of you and his child, they belong to the Sparklers. As he named us, so shall we become, our people will sparkle (σπινθήρισμα) from love and joy of having a Universe of friends; of learning alongside you.

If he steals that from us by teaching us to control the void, you have undertaken at my calling to return here with your child, and her child if there is one. Your lives will be forfeit without giving him rights to seek to avenge you.*

Aganthi returned to find our arms around her. I stroked her cheek tenderly.

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“You sold them flowers?”

“Yes.”

“They had no money, but you knew they would buy?”

“They had some money. They had your love.”

“My little Albanian flower-girl, you have great courage and you have saved not only me, but two species. Sam, does she have my craziness too?”

“Definitely.”

“Is that praise enough for you Aganthi mou?”

“I only wanted to help you.” Though coy, she glowed as she was inundated (κατακλυσμός) with love and admiration by all.

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^{15th November, 2018}

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