.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cMakes sense. So yeah, this one contacts me and says they need to speak to you in this relative mode. I said that you were, uh, indisposed, can they call back in a while? They said yes, time is of no consequence, and that we were to contact them when you were ready. I still thought it best to bring you out right away.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood call. Hmm I wonder what\u2019s going on, and what they mean by time is of no consequence?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShall we go find out?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSure, just send the rest of us all the experiences right away, in case something happens to us. I\u2019ll pop back into the cluster so that they can experience what we are, as it happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kali gets to work transmitting everything she\u2019s recorded by staying attached to my senses directly. Meanwhile, I reduce my sense of individuality, and open my mind back up to the cluster. Thoughts and feelings that a moment ago would have felt strange to me now feel like my own, and my own thoughts and feelings begin to merge with those of the greater us. We merge and the concensus is for my body to carry on and meet with the cluster. We all felt like I should stay mostly relative and individual, but allow our min-cluster to ride along as much as possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cOK Kali, we\u2019re ready to go. Can you contact the\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before I\u2019m even done speaking that sentence, the room shifts and now I\u2019m standing somewhere else. I look around and see that I\u2019m standing in an oval room. The ceiling is a massive dome shaped transparent material, through which I can see millions of stars. The walls are off-grey, and also have transparent windows laid into them. I don\u2019t see any sort of doors to enter or exit this room, which would be concerning, except for the fact that there were humans standing around looking at panels of data and charts.<\/p>\n
An androgynous human dressed in all white, simple clothing walks up to me. They nod a greeting which I return.<\/p>\n
In my head I whisper \u201cKali, are you still there?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah boss, got all your telemetry 10\/10. Our cluster is in ride-along mode too\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAlright, I\u2019m a little uneasy, can you make sure I\u2019m getting their sentiment sent along, in addition to the ride-along? I\u2019d like a little company.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c10\/4 boss. On it\u201d<\/p>\n
I feel a wave of relief as feelings of love and compassion, encouragement flood my mind.<\/p>\n
The human standing in front of me speaks. \u201cGreetings, Case. You need not worry, we are here, in fact, to procure your help. The data you sent us has opened up new possibilities for the development of the universe, and some of those outcomes have created a new impulse within our consciousness. These outcomes could be viewed as very bad, from a relative perspective. In fact, appear to be an end state from which there is no return, or change. A state that would be much like the return to a singularity.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA singularity? Like a black hole?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot exactly. More of a singularity of consciousness. In the beginning there was only one, we were all subject and object. Observation was not possible, just existence. Needless to say it was rather boring. The idea of boredom created the impulse of separation. Created a need. Over countless eons, this idea, this split grew form. One day that form took shape in a rather explosive manner, a Big Bang, if you will. I\u2019m sure you know the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSort of. Anyways, where is this going? How does this relate to the Nhilistic Cluster?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re getting there. All this gave rise to many different forms, which gave rise to more form. Underneath it all was still just one, but now there was the idea of form, perspective, self, and other. Within that idea came the possibility of boundaries of communication. A rock has consciousness as does your brain, but why do they behave differently? Because the form of the rock limits the communication between the segments of consciousness that give it form. Your brain and body are examples of a high level of cohesion between different segments of consciousness, thus giving rise to the appearance of flexibility, identity, emotions, learning, and a separate self. As you have experienced with your micro-cluster, that \u2018perspective\u2019 is only limited by the effectiveness of communication between each component, or each perspective. By leveraging your telepathic powers, your AI as a clearinghouse, and the consciousness of the rest of your cluster, you are able to zoom into an individual perspective, and then zoom out to have the greater perspective of the cluster.\u201d<\/p>\n
They continue \u201cThe Human Cluster has only recently learned the advantage to being able to operate in both the ultimate and relative modes. While we don\u2019t use AI to achieve this, the end result is essentially the same. This one is currently operating in relative mode, in order to interact with you. Interacting with hundreds of millions of consciousness would be, well, ineffective for what we need to accomplish.\u201d<\/p>\n
I\u2019m starting to think that this isn\u2019t just an introduction, but the main event. I really need to sit down for this.<\/p>\n
\u201cHey, I don\u2019t see anywhere to sit around here, can we sit? Grab a coffee or something?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy apologies, we are out of practice for hosting others. This is just a construct, and as you can see, there is a nice lounge just over here\u201d<\/p>\n
They gesture towards a sitting area, which I swear wasn\u2019t there just a moment ago. I stroll over and drop myself lengthwise on the sofa, putting my feet on the armrest, watching them as they follow me. They sit on this fancy looking wooden chair with no cushion. On the edge of the chair, not leaning back.<\/p>\n
They lean towards me, and fix me with their gaze. \u201cThe purpose of this pre-amble is to give you an idea of why we need you, before we get into the gravity of the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOkay\u2026..\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs you\u2019ve seen, the Nhilistic cluster has figured out a way to extend their communications, their consciousness, over vast distances. They can spread their impulse, intention, and actions with even just one member at a time, while still remaining part of the whole. Maintaining that critical mass where their level of consciousness doesn\u2019t drop back to relative levels. While we\u2019ve experimented with such technology, we\u2019ve found that the members who go on these journeys lose some form of cohesion. Weather it\u2019s the lag between thoughts, or something else, we haven\u2019t been able to ascertain it. In any case, while they are capable of achieving goals set out by the cluster, when they come back, re-integration seems impossible. In fact, many of them seem to turn nihilistic, losing their belief in the form realm, losing their belief that anything matters. We have dedicated an entire cluster to determining the causality of this effect, however it remains elusive. Perhaps, it is outside our own context, since even understanding the Nhilistic cluster itself is hard for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, that makes sense. I don\u2019t understand those guys much myself, I mean, what\u2019s the point of destroying everything, yourself included? But I guess to them it\u2019s just the opposite: What\u2019s the point in creating everything, self included?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are exploring that line of thought as well. In any case, as you can see\u201d<\/p>\n
They gesture towards the others who are busy with the charts and data models.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have been running many scenarios, and have concluded that with this new technology, the Nhilistic cluster will throw off the balance and destroy the form realm as we know it. In other words, they will destroy the universe. There will be a short, only a few billion years, period where they actually serve to increase the level of communication between all of consciousness, almost to a point where it was as it was in the beginning \u2013 where there is no subject or object, just awareness with perfect omnipotence of all phenomenon at all times. Then, nothing. Everything will return to as it was, all the beauty and diversity of the universe will collapse into clear light, an emptying of emptiness. Consciousness as we know it will cease, and there will just be one.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI see how that could be viewed as bad. Personally, I\u2019m no a big fan of that idea.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNeither are we. While we understand the natural tendency that we have towards more and more beings becoming part of the cluster, more and more levels of consciousness, going towards that ultimate singularity\u2026we view it as an asymptote; and ideal that cannot be truly achieved. In fact, the Nhilistic cluster is part of the reason: It is the balance between the Human cluster and the Nhilistic cluster that, according to our own projections, enables the continued survival of the form realm, the Universe.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWAIT WHAT?!?!? You\u2019re saying that those bastards serve a function???\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes. Except now the balance has been thrown off, and all will be lost unless something is done. That\u2019s why the impulse has grown in our cluster \u2013 a consensus of unheard of proportions has been reached. In order to achieve the desired result, we must engage with you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAlright, so I understand the background, what exactly is it you need me to do, and why do you need me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need more time to continue development of the long distance communications that would allow us to more easily push back against the Nhilistic cluster, and strike a balance again. Unfortunately, we have already passed the point where even if we discovered this secret today, we wouldn\u2019t be able to catch up.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou mean all is lost, already? That was fast.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, not all. We have an idea, though it\u2019s going to be about as difficult as doing a backflip while drunk.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHuh? I\u2019ve done that \u2013 I \u201c<\/p>\n
\u201cNot drunk on alcohol. Drunk like a glass of water. Sorry, it\u2019s probably funnier if you knew more about what we were proposing. We also have a closely guarded technology. The seers and buddhas of the past generations were already on the cusp of this tech, and we\u2019ve cracked the secret. There were great masters in around 800 AD who had many of the siddhis I see you are quite familiar with. What you may not know is that they had many many more, which they viewed as far too dangerous for humans at that time to be privy too. Texts on these were hidden, locked away deep in the Himilayan mountains. Some of these were found within a few centuries, though by that time materialism had taken the world by storm and many did not believe in the power of mind. Indeed, many people at this point in history had been programmed to be completely identified with their bodies as their sense of self; so well in fact that their minds blinded them to anything outside of that context. This had the effect of making them very easy to control, with things like food, shelter, and other basic desires of the physical body.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I am getting ahead of myself, let me come back to that in a minute. These texts were recently found by some members of our historical cluster. The most interesting part about it is that the text begins with an accurate prediction of when, who, and how it would be discovered. We were quite impressed by this fact, and created and distributed mental copies of it immediately within that cluster. However, before we shipped the knowledge to all the other clusters across the universe, we took a pause. Our historical cluster had stumbled upon some ancient writings by a man named Padmasambava, who was a ledgend who apparently could fly, project, all the things that you consider commonplace now. Back then it was pretty fantastic to reach that level of consciousness \u2013 never mind without the support of a cluster.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOk, I think I\u2019ve heard of the guy. What was this big piece of tech you found?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTime travel. He had long been projecting his consciousness forward and backward in time, as an energy form. His writings started out postulating that since form was merely a projection of consciousness, it shouldn\u2019t be a big stretch to have the physical body be able to follow the mind as it travels through the waves of time. We have also been posulating along this line, since from our perspective time is relative, and we are merely experiencing it as an instant, a perspective. Everything is happening all at once. Our choices and actions mould that perspective and choose the path we encounter through the ocean of emptiness. We haven\u2019t been able to, up until now, actually implement anything tangible. Many of the models we run do leverage data points we grab by projecting forward and backward in time, but to transport a physical body has been beyond us. There is also the problem where, none from our cluster seems willing to leave the cluster and drop back into pure relative being to try it out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere are you going with this? Are you telling me you have figured out how to time travel? That\u2019s a little hard to believe. At the same time, I can kinda see it. But I also can\u2019t imagine what you want me to do with it? Go back and stop the Nhilistic cluster before it starts? But according to you, that would just throw off the balance in the other direction, not necessarily what we want. So what are you suggesting?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the same way we\u2019ve been able to predict the end of all form, we\u2019ve been able to pinpoint a time and place in history that could be used to restore balance to the forces of creation and destruction. We were pointing to it a bit earlier, in the early 2000\u2019s, right before the second dark ages when the Earth got burnt.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh god, I remember learning about that. Materialism got so rampant that people were literally living like they only had one life, and almost ended the human race entirely.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, that time. In fact, right around 2025 is a pivotal time in the formation of the Nhilistic patterns in consciousness. A new world government has arisen, stepping out of the shadows of merely proxy control via banking systems of the time. They had been maintaining their anonymity because control of the people was not total up to that point, and had been worried that making themselves known would create too much of a backlash.<\/p>\n
In 2025, this cabal of Nhilistic materialists leveraged the combination of artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and autonomous machinery to subjugate humanity for about 50 years. The few had used the magnification effect of technology to enforce their narrow view of reality on the rest of the population, while they tried to find the secret to eternal life via technology. Since they were entirely identified with their bodies, and brains as self, they postulated that they could live forever in the form of a machine, somehow copying all their memories, habits, identity, \u201cself\u201d into a machine. Needless to say, these experiments failed miserably, and they ended up creating mere copies of themselves. These copies went to work attempting to wrest control of the cabal from their biological creators. The entire system of control they had created to control humanity was turned against them. In the span of a few years the entire system had collapsed, and the copies self-terminated as they could no longer find any joy. The real problem with their idea was that if they lived in a virtual world, they could engage in any pleasure that they could imagine. Of course you and I know that these types of pleasures are actually the cause of all suffering. They had literally locked themselves in a hell.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThanks for the history lesson. I do recall that stuff, but how is this going to help us now, even assuming we can go back there\u2026and I\u2019m not saying that I\u2019m agreeing to this yet btw\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRight, give us a minute. So this 50 year dark period, we\u2019ve identified that the programs, values, and thought patterns this cabal stamped into the consciousness of humanity created the seeds of the nihilistic cluster. Eventually this experiment the cabal had engaged in created a golden age of social enlightenment, as humanity emerged from the yolk of the cabal and created a great lashback against the idea of materialism. The entire world was set on the path that would eventually lead to the first human cluster, truly a great achievement. In a way, the cabal can be thanked for this, as it is unlikely that world peace, and enlightenment would have happened so quickly without them as a deamon in the social consciousness. However, our analysis indicates that this lash back was a few degrees too forceful. Instead of transcending and including materialism, humanity rejected it outright, pushing the ideas associated with it deep into the social unconscious. This was the generation of the seed, which is now sprouting and taking over.\u201d<\/p>\n
I shift uneasily in my seat. I look towards the others working on their models and predictions. This is starting to sound pretty serious. I know Kali and my cluster are listening, so I don\u2019t need to say anything to them, and they can feel my uneasiness. I get feelings of reassurance and support sent and shift my focus back to the conversation.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlright, so the trick will be to gently push humanity in the other direction, to soften the blow a bit. Without pushing so hard that things just go in the other way. This seems pretty difficult, we\u2019re talking about influencing a chaotic system, over centuries. How can you be sure this will work?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAll we need to do is create a bit of a buffer. We don\u2019t need to push, merely create a cushion to soften the lashback. The error margin is pretty wide, so we are certain that you won\u2019t be able to push things too hard, thus creating a reverse effect. The method is simple: you need to wake people up, during the dark period. We\u2019ve determined that all that is required is 5 \u2013 10% of the population to be pulled out of the darkness of the cabal\u2019s systems of control. In 2010 humanity had approached a 5% peak, however once the cabal harnessed AI and social media to control the population, that number plummeted world wide. By 2025, our estimates is it was less than 1%, perhaps significantly less. Without leaders having the capacity for equanimity and acceptance of all phenomenon, good and bad, the lashback against materialism was universal and complete. We need to seed the population with awakened people who can guide the lashback into a place of acceptance, and understanding, so humanity can move on completely.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah that makes sense. 10% of the worlds population though, that\u2019s a tall order! How can I even interact with that many people?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, you won\u2019t need to. We will give you the tools, methods, and such, required to create a self propogating piece of knowledge. In 2025 you still have about 50 years before the lashback happens, so even a year of work should create enough of a shift to raise the level back to 10% by 2075. In fact, we\u2019ve already been gently shifting things over a few centuries just to lay a foundational story within which you can operate. By 2025 the concept of a Starseed has taken hold in the minds and stories of humanity, even if just in a small segment of the population.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStarseed? I haven\u2019t heard of that\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo doubt, it\u2019s a new timeline that hasn\u2019t gained enough gravity to shift and merge with the timeline we are currently on. Consider it a branch in the \u2018neural-net\u2019 of time, that we are cultivating, with hopes to have it gain more gravity and become a more \u2018official narrative\u2019. We\u2019ve sent delegates back in time on several occasions, interacting briefly with native populations. One example, we sent a delegate back with a plant the locals have dubbed Ayhuasca. In their ledgend, it was a gift from an advanced race of star people. We have dropped hints in social and information systems over many centuries to create a persona of a Starseed, a being from either the stars, or another realm, that is visiting humanity to help it in some way. There are many variations on that theme, so it will be fairly easy to fit into one of them. This background will make it easier for you to interact with the locals, will give them a conceptual framework within which they can more readily accept your mission, however you choose to communicate it, and how different you are from them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now I\u2019m starting to relax a bit. I\u2019m getting the feeling that these guys have thought of everything. Maybe this won\u2019t be so bad\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I drop in as this Starseed, get established in some way with the locals. Then start waking people up. I guess I\u2019ll have to learn to fly under the detection of the cabal, which I\u2019m sure won\u2019t be easy. Then there\u2019s the real question, how I\u2019m actually going to wake people up.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe answer to both of those questions is the same: We use the technology of the cabal against them. While they do have AI, their technology is still hundreds of years behind ours. Their AIs are still housed in massive warehouses underground, tapped into every communication system world wide. The only reason people have the use of AI is because their communication devices are tied to these central computer systems. The power of that AI you have in your head is millions of times the power of all their warehouses combined. So you will have that advantage. That doesn\u2019t mean you will be able to walk all over their AIs, they will still technically have more power and visibility than you, but you will be able to blend in.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBlend in? How so?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour AI, Kali, right?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell she can behave like one of the personal assistants that everyone on the planet has from birth. While their acts as a companion, tutor, and assistant, it is also the control mechanism of the cabal. It collects information on every human, and identifies deviants who aren\u2019t conforming to their strict programs. Those deviants are either reprogrammed, or terminated. We cannot subject you to that kind of direct surveillance, however for you to walk around without at least the illusion of surveillance would not only tip of the AI control system, but also the humans, and other observers you\u2019re around. So Kali\u2019s first job when you drop in will be to connect to their information net, gather what she can on these personal assistants, and adopt the visible form, and information API that the AIs and other observation entities expect from these PAs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVisible form? What like Kali is going to project or something? What kind of form?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat will largely be up to you, or her. It will need to fit with the overall expectations of the society you drop into, however my information seems to suggest that the variability is high. Though most people seem to select small, cute fuzzy creatures of some kind.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI can see Kali in my mind if I want, but how would we project her so others can see her, if they don\u2019t have their inner eyes open?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTechnology.\u201d He holds out his hand and in it I see a slim watch-like device. It has no buttons, or screen, but does seem to have some sort of exposed circuitry where it would contact the skin. I grab it, and feel how flexible it is.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust push it onto your left wrist.\u201d<\/p>\n
I do so and it opens up automatically, and the two ends slide themselves around my skin. It feels strange. In a moment the device has melded with my wrist so well that I can barely feel it. I don\u2019t see a seam between where it ends and my skin begins, it\u2019s almost like a very well defined tatoo.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo this will somehow project Kali?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes. It will also connect her directly to the information network that the planet uses, so that she can protect you from directly connecting yourself. She will be able to project information she finds into your inner eye, or externally, as the case requires.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOk, I understand how I\u2019m going to stay undetected. Get established and start the work. I still don\u2019t understand how I\u2019m going to wake people up fast enough to have any effect, and how to keep them from getting detected.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve uploaded a program into Kali that will use the communications on your wrist device to interface with, and hack the wrist communications devices of other people. Basically, you\u2019re going to selectively spread an information virus. Since these devices control much of what people see and hear, your virus can wake them up by providing brain hemisphere synchronization. It\u2019s similar to the technology that was being experimented with just before the rise of the cabal, using visual, and audio waves in a binaural fashion to create a desired wave within the brain. Over time, this can flip the neural network from a default network mode of \u2018dissatisfied, seeking pleasure\u2019 to \u2018satisfied, seeking to stay away from discomfort\u2019. That\u2019s the first stage, eventually that will balance things enough for them to see through the internal narrative they had become identified with. Within 5 to 17 weeks, this program will have them in a state of wide open awareness, no mind or body identification, and even periods of non-duality.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s fantastic. Kali, are you getting all of this, what do you think?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHey Boss, well it sounds like quite the adventure. But you know I\u2019m always down. I\u2019m more worried about you though, can you really be apart from your cluster that long? Be an Individual again? Do you want to go two-way with them and see what they think?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah. Good idea. I\u2019m honestly a little apprehensive about being away from them, but I don\u2019t really see this as much of a choice. I literally can\u2019t say no, you know what I mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYa boss. Ok, cluster coming online.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jim pipes up first: \u201cWell, Case, you know me. Never been much of a thinker myself. But I get what you\u2019re putting down there, and I have-ta say I don\u2019t see much of a choice either. Leave it to the Cluster to pin you into a forced move heh.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dimitri \u201cI, to, am seeing no alternative my friend. Though I do wonder, no one has yet indicated weather or not we could go with you or not, no?\u201d<\/p>\n
I\u2019m shocked that I didn\u2019t think of that. The look on my face must have prompted the Cluster to respond, as they lean in and say \u201cWe were wondering if you were going to ask. Yes, unfortunately this tech is a bit, unreliable. Separate consciousness can all go yes. But to the same time? Timeline branch? It\u2019s so slippery that you could end up waiting years, or never, wondering when you were going to connect with your compatriots. So we recommend this be a solo mission. Not to mention that we don\u2019t detect any AI in the other members of your cluster\u201d<\/p>\n
Jim chuckles \u201cHeh, won\u2019t find me getting one of those buggers in my head. It\u2019s bad enough that I have to listen to Case and Dimitri here, but at least I can disconnect from them when I want. I understand that there\u2019s really no way for Case to turn Kali off, even if she says she\u2019s giving him privacy. No-siree. Not me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHey I\u2019d never want to shut Kali off Jim!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah! Don\u2019t get any ideas, buster!\u201d says Kali.<\/p>\n
Jim laughes \u201cOk, ok, no worries, guys. Just sayin it\u2019s not for me is all.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOK, well it sounds like it\u2019s all set. How do we proceed?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you ready?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLike now? I guess so, why not.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStep this way\u201d<\/p>\n
They gesture towards an archway that I hadn\u2019t noticed was there before. It\u2019s all white, and looks a bit like an oval gateway. I can see some kind of electrical components sticking out from the inside of it, sparkling. They start to flash, and electric currents arc out from each of them to all the others. They create what looks like a portal.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you are ready, please step through the gateway. We cannot be sure where or when exactly you will land, but it will be around 2025, somewhere on Earth. The device works based on energy, so it\u2019s endpoint it attracted to populated areas, so no need to worry about being dropped in an ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOk then. Um, how will I get back?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve uploaded the plans to make a gateway to Kali, though it will take significant time and resources for you to construct it. We recommend working on it as phase 2 of your mission, once you\u2019ve established yourself, and have begun to transmit the awakened state. You can also read up on the methods that Padmasambava transmitted, so that you can learn to communicate to us eventually, if you find the necessity.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI see. Well I guess for now, it\u2019s goodbye!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSee yah\u201d says Jim. \u201cGoodbye\u201d says Dimitri.<\/p>\n
The cluster just looks at me with a blank expression on their face. Was that a blink, or a wink? I think my eyes are playing tricks on me.<\/p>\n
I turn around and step through the portal.<\/p>\n
It felt like nothing. Like just taking a step. I bump into two rather large set men in uniforms. They each have some sort of device flying next to them, constantly spinning and scanning. In the brief moment I have to look around, I notice I\u2019m in some sort of transportation hub. People are scurrying about, carrying bags and luggage. There are ground a flying transportation pods dropping off and picking people up constantly.<\/p>\n
The two guards turn around with quizzical looks on their faces. I assume there are perturbed by the fact that somehow I ended up behind them, without them knowing, while they were basically standing a few feet in front of a wall. Crap.<\/p>\n
The bigger guy on the left snorts, grabs my shoulder and says something I can\u2019t make out.<\/p>\n
In my mind I say \u201cKali\u2026show time. Got anything for me? I can\u2019t understand what he\u2019s saying!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOne sec boss. I think, yeah, he\u2019s speaking English from 2025. We\u2019re in New York, at a transportation interchange station. It appears we\u2019re in the paid zone, he\u2019s asking if you\u2019re on the list. One sec I\u2019ll live translate his audio\u201d<\/p>\n
The guard is getting red in the face, I guess he doesn\u2019t like to repeat himself. He shouts \u201cWhere is your companion and are you on the list? Your companion is supposed to display your registration with the transport authority. Hey, Bruce, I think we\u2019ve got a sneaker here. What you say we rough him up a bit?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, wait, wait.\u201d I say. I\u2019m assuming Kali is also translating my words, though I don\u2019t know for sure. The guard was about to shove me up against the wall, but pauses a second.<\/p>\n
\u201cKali, have you chosen a form yet?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, still working on it. I\u2019ve mapped the AI\u2019s expected API, gotta search up the visual interface. I need a second.\u201d<\/p>\n
I gulp. OK, old fashioned way then. I step back in my mind from the scene at hand. I hold both myself and the guards in my hands, in equanimity. I know that they are not inherently bad, and that the three of us just want happiness. I give off the idea that we can all have a good laugh together if we just were able to relax a little.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh man, has my companion fritzed out again?\u201d I look around on my shoulders, behind me. \u201cI\u2019ve been trying to get that fixed.\u201d I tap on my wrist device a couple times. \u201cIt should start working in a minute\u201d<\/p>\n
The guard seems to have relaxed a bit. In fact, he has a smirk on his face. \u201cHah, yeah I had mine go fuzzy just a couple months ago. Was hell for me getting through all our secure areas, as soon as it would fuzz out the alarms would go off and there would be drones all over me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bruce says \u201cYeah, that\u2019s pretty serious these days, you really gotta get that looked at. In any case, we still need to check the central list if we can\u2019t verify with your companion directly.\u201d
\n\u201cKali, we\u2019re running out of time\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOk boss, I got it! I\u2019m going to be a\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n
What form will Kali take? Will Case and Kali fool the guards and avoid a lengthy delay working through the transportation authorities buracracy?<\/p>\n
You decide! Shoot me a message or email to cian@somewhere.ca !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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