The Four Faces of Rath - (CC, ALL, YTEEN) -Ch 66-71 - 8/6/05
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Damn, She was on to something and then forgot!<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :mad --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... ns/mad.gif ALT=":mad"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> Hope she remembers it again soon.<br>So where there five kids? is one missing? I don't remember how many kids they had..let me go check it in the previous books and see if i can get any clues or you can make life <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>so</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> much easier for me by posting another part soon and answering all of these questions! (I mean your books are soo intertwinded that it's mind boggling!<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.majiklmoon.com/ezboardsmilies/lol.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> ) <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sra ... 55ad1f.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--></p><i></i>
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Okay, I had to go somewhere in the car. I'm back now and can answer this more thoroughly. When Michael found Liz in the different timeline that was accidentally created, she was about to marry some guy who was a big physics professor... but a total jerk. Michael spoiled the wedding and had to explain himself to a seething Jeff Parker and a sobbing Liz. When he told her that she had been married to Max and had lived on Antar and had children (four) with Max, she was not convinced, but he showed her the portal and told her that it had been hers in the other timeline. Always thinking on her feet, Liz decided to use the portal to go to the future and see if she and Max ever get back together and the timeline Michael is telling her about actually exists and gets fixed. But because that is not the right future for the timeline she is in, she winds up creating a sort of time bubble in which she does meet Max, but he is alone without her or their children. She returns to Michael and her Dad with a message from Max. What she doesn't tell them is that she fell in love with Max while she was there, spent a year with him before returning, and had a baby named Jeffy (after her Dad obviously). Michael never suspects this, since she returns to him minutes after leaving and keeps all the private details of their relationship to herself. Regarding the time bubble, here's what the Nogi-K'ya had to say about it to Max (I'll call him "Bubble Max" <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.majiklmoon.com/ezboardsmilies/lol.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> ) in chapter 35:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Liz’s coming here to this future created this timeline that you are in. It’s like a bubble… one small bubble… in a huge frothing cauldron full of bubbles. That is why we forbid the Nogi-K’ya to alter time until all the possible ramifications and effects have been studied and determined… and that process can take hundreds of your years.”<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Liz's memory of her short life (one year) in this "bubble" is a memory from across time. The bubble no longer exists. It wasn't a real timeline at all, just a "bubble." But Jeffy did exist... even if only for a few months and in a "bubble" of time that is now gone, and Liz is accessing that memory, because it is so important to her. Max may eventually remember something, too, but Liz is emotionally attached to that bubble (to her lost baby) in a way that transcends time and space and maybe even reality. Eventually, she will remember. What will happen then you'll just have to wait and find out. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :evil --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... /devil.gif ALT=":evil"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :ufo --><img src=http://www.majiklmoon.com/ezboardsmilies/ufo.gif ALT=":ufo"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START ;) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... s/wink.gif ALT=";)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://users.aol.com/isndbreeze/skysymb ... <!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:gold;">Gerry<br>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -<br>Hopeless Candy-Coated, Stargazing, <!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">Dreamer</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END-->!<br>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>
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Oh! Now i see...but poor Liz! She's lost her baby and when she will remember...well that's gonna be one hell of a heartache! And she spend an entire year with Bubble Max (LOL) and was gone only a few minutes? Interesting...you sure know how to weave the story...can't wait to see what else you've got up your sleeve and I hope it's a baby named Jeffy<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START ;) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... s/wink.gif ALT=";)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sra ... 55ad1f.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--></p><i></i>
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Thanks Fallen Magic, Bookwork, Buffyrosfan, Tracie, and Destiny22! I'm so happy to know that you're reading this and enjoying it, Destiny! I love to hear from new readers! Well, some of your questions may be answered in this next chapter. After that, well... I guess everyone will have to wait and find out. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :eek --><img src=http://www.majiklmoon.com/ezboardsmilies/eek.gif ALT=":eek"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :evil --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... /devil.gif ALT=":evil"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :ufo --><img src=http://www.majiklmoon.com/ezboardsmilies/ufo.gif ALT=":ufo"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br><br><br> <p><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://users.aol.com/isndbreeze/skysymb ... <!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:gold;">Gerry<br>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -<br>Hopeless Candy-Coated, Stargazing, <!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">Dreamer</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END-->!<br>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>
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The Four Faces of Rath (Sequel to Children of the Universe)
The Four Faces of Rath<br><br><br><br> <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="font-size:medium;">Three Little Pawgors</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--><br><br>Chapter 45</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>XLV <br><br><br><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="font-size:large;">J</span><!--EZCODE FONT END-->im Valenti watched with Kathleen from the porch of their ranch house as Danyy played in the yard with his friend the pawgor. Ten months before, the pawgor had found a mate and increased the pawgor population by three, so Danyy now had not one, but five pawgors to play with. Mama pawgor usually preferred to watch as her three cubs and her mate -Danyy’s original friend- played “chase-and-catch,” “snatch-the-ball,” “hide and seek,” “pounce and leap,” and other “pawgor games” with Danyy; but she was still young, too, and occasionally she would succumb to temptation and join in the fun. <br><br>Kathleen still worried about Danyy, especially when he would be rolling in the grass with the pawgor, wrestling it as though he had a chance in the world of winning such a mismatch. Fortunately, although the adult pawgors were half again as large as a full-grown Siberian tiger or adult male lion, they seemed to know just how much pressure they could put on Danyy and not crush him or seriously injure him. Their antics looked savage and dangerous, but considering their abilities, they were actually being amazingly gentle, probably more so even than with their own cubs.<br><br>The cubs, however, were another matter. Though Danyy was able to communicate with all the pawgors and let them know when they were being too rough, the cubs had not yet developed a mastery of their powers and strength. Danyy had been scraped or lightly mauled a few times by the cubs’ already foot-long front teeth or their retractable claws, which just seemed to automatically “unretract” during hard play. Most closely resembling prehistoric saber tooth tigers, full-grown pawgors have a pair of two-foot long teeth in the front of their mouths. Danyy was never seriously hurt, though, and could still count all his fingers, hands, and other appendages. Nevertheless, it gave Kathleen cause for concern, though she did have to admit that she enjoyed watching Danyy having so much fun.<br><br>Jim had long ago returned the young pawgor to the Nan-Torel, a sort of deep forest-jungle that was its natural habitat, but the young pawgor often left the Nan-Torel to return to the Valenti ranch to find Danyy. When it found a mate and had cubs, it brought them to the ranch, too. The pawgors came and went as they pleased, which was another unusual thing on Antar. No pawgors had ever been known to leave the deep Nan-Torel, and almost no Antarians had ever gone into the Nan-Torel… not willingly anyway… so their paths didn’t often cross. The pawgor’s prowess is legendary on Antar. It’s just that since it lives in the dangerous Nan-Torel, nobody on Antar could remember ever actually having seen one… not until Jim Valenti came to Antar. <br><br>Antarians would often make weekend plans to drive by the Valenti estate just to get a glimpse of the pawgors. They certainly weren’t going to venture into the Nan-Torel to see one. The deep Nan-Torel, where pawgors live, is considered so dangerous that anyone who enters and is not heard from for twenty-four hours can be legally declared dead. Jim found the young male pawgor trapped under a fallen tree with its dead mama during a hunting expedition in the Nan-Torel, a venture that Antarians considered just plain foolish. He saved the young pawgor and brought it home, never suspecting that the twelve-foot-high enclosure he kept it in was no hindrance at all. When the pawgor was ready to it simply jumped over the fence without even exerting itself. He also never suspected that his young son, Danyy, was talking to the pawgor every day… mind to mind… or that they understood each other. <br><br>Now Jim watched as his son, Danyy, played with not one but five pawgors in their yard. He shook his head and smiled at Kathleen.<br><br>“Never thought I’d see the day, Kath.” <br><br>Kathleen watched as yet another car hovered slowly by on the off-the-path road that led by the ranch, trying to get a glimpse – and maybe a picture - of the pawgors.<br><br>“Looks like they never thought they’d see it, either,” Kathleen said. “Antarians don’t have a National Enquirer, but they don’t seem to have any shortage of enquiring minds.”<br><br>Jim nodded, and he and Kathleen both smiled.<br><br>“Maybe I should start something like the Discover channel on Antarian TV,” Jim said.<br><br>“Maybe you should, Jim,” Kathleen laughed, nodding. “I’ll bet it would be a big hit! It’s really amazing how little they actually know about their own fauna… especially considering that they’re probably several thousand years ahead of Earth technologically and in almost every other way. You know, before Max met up with the jah-ee, Antarians still considered the jah-ee to be a myth… and no one had ever seen a pawgor! Maybe you should do it.”<br><br>“Yeah,” Jim said, nodding. “Maybe I will, Kath. You know… maybe I will. That’s something Danyy and I could do together. Yeah! I’d like that!”<br><br>Jim turned to look as another car hovered up the country dirt road… but unlike the ones before, this one turned into the long driveway and drove up toward the ranch house.<br><br>“That’s Max and Liz,” Kathleen said, walking out to meet the car.<br><br>“Liz! Max! How are you?”<br><br>As the car’s engines purred to a stop, the doors automatically slid back with part of the roof, and Liz stepped out of the vehicle, a bright blue Xac-Var IV, and accepted a hug and kiss on the cheek from Kathleen, which she returned.<br><br>“We wanted to see how you guys were doing up here,” Liz said. “I don’t know why, but it just seems like we haven’t seen each other for a very long time.”<br><br>“Yeah, it does, doesn’t it,” Kathleen agreed. “I was just thinking the same thing this morning. Funny, isn’t it? We were all right here just a few days ago talking about… you know, the problems…” Kathleen was hesitant to open a dialog into the virus catastrophe that had befallen Antar. “But in spite of that, I can’t shake the feeling that we were somewhere else for… a lifetime or something.”<br><br>“You feel it, too?” Liz asked.<br><br>“Yeah. I’m remembering bits and pieces from when I was in the other timeline with Michael. The odd thing is, it feels more and more like I had a whole life there, not just a month or so after the Nogi-K’ya changed the timeline.”<br><br>“Yeah,” Liz agreed. “That’s how I feel, too. And there’s something from there that I know I should remember, Kathleen… only I can’t seem to remember it, and it’s killing me.”<br><br>“Well, it’ll come to you, Liz… maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe in a month… but it’ll come to you sooner or later. I wouldn’t worry about it.”<br><br>“I guess not.”<br><br>“I see the little pawgors are doing fine,” Max said.<br><br>Kathleen nodded. “Yeah! They’re a wild and frisky bunch.”<br><br>“Don’t you ever worry that they’ll hurt Danyy,” Liz asked… “I mean, accidentally or something?”<br><br>“I do,” Kathleen said, nodding, “but Danyy seems to feel that he’s safe, and they are very gentle with him. I know it doesn’t look like it, but…”<br><br>“Is it normal for the pawgor to be chewing on Danyy’s head like that,” Max interrupted.<br><br>Kathleen turned around quickly. Danyy’s head was inside the pawgor’s mouth, and he was holding its two-foot-long front teeth in his hands like two bars of a jail cell. Kathleen started to yell or run to his defense, but at that moment, Danyy extricated his head from the pawgor’s mouth.<br><br>“Look, Mom! Now my hair’s all slicked down! I got Jung-Jo to lick it!”<br><br>Kathleen closed her eyes tightly for a moment and wrinkled her nose.<br><br>“You’re taking a long bath when you get in the house, young man! No ‘ifs,’ ‘ands,’ or ‘buts’!”<br><br>“Aw, Mom! I can comb my hair down now and it’ll stay down!”<br><br>“I didn’t know you worried about that,” Jim said.<br><br>“I don’t…” Danyy said, “but Mama likes it that way.”<br><br>“Not licked down,” Kathleen said, breaking out into laughter in spite of herself. Liz wondered if the laughter was amusement or relief. It was probably a bit of both.<br><br>“Max, what would you think about me starting a sort of Animal Channel or Discover-type channel on AntarVision,” Jim asked. “You know, there aren’t any zoos on Antar, and people here don’t even know what some of their animals look like. They’re just folk legends. Nobody ever saw a jah-ee before you befriended one…”<br><br>“Nobody who lived to tell about it,” Max corrected. “Well… almost nobody, I guess. Somebody had to have seen one to start the legends.”<br><br>“Yeah, well, that’s what I mean, Max. And nobody ever saw a pawgor until I brought Jung-Jo back… Okay, I know, nobody who lived to tell about it.”<br><br>Max smiled and nodded. He had seen a couple of pawgors when he was running from Kivar’s soldiers and hiding out in the Nan-Torel, but the soldiers who chased him into the Nan-Torel had seen them, too… and only Max had returned from the Nan-Torel. Nobody could be really sure what ever happened to the group of soldiers who went in after Max. But one thing is certain… none of them ever came out.<br><br>“I think it’s a good idea, Jim. Go for it if you want to do it! You’re the most qualified person on Antar to do something like that.”<br><br>“I think you’re the <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>only</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> person on Antar qualified to do it,” Liz laughed. <br><br>“You’re probably the only one who <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>would</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> do it,” Max said, nodding in agreement. <br><br>“Let’s go inside,” Kathleen said, pushing them toward the house. “I’ll get you some coffee and jaht-roo cookies. I might have some left-over japo, too.”<br><br>“Sounds good,” Max said.<br><br>Inside the ranch house, Max and Liz sat down together on a typical oversized Antarian sofa, as Kathleen hurried to pour some coffee for everyone and bring out a tray of jaht-roo cookies and chilled japo-mevanish. Few Antarian families were ever without these basic treats, which could always be whipped out on a moment’s notice for guests. For planned or more formal events, the japo-mevanish was served flaming. The flames gave the Antarian flan-like dessert a crispy but sweet coating, in a way like roasting a marshmallow over a fire. And jaht-roo cookies were made from a very light and wispy sugar dough, the same dough used to bake playing pieces for the Antarian game of Jaht-Roo, from whence they got their name. If you could take cotton candy, turn it into cookies, and make it slightly crisp, you would almost have jaht-roo cookies. Coffee, which had been unknown on Antar prior to Max’s return, was quickly becoming a favorite with many Antarians, as was tea, though native herbs and beans were usually substituted, since real coffee beans and tea leaves were a special commodity on Antar.<br><br>“Kath,” Liz said, turning to address Kathleen, “What exactly do you remember from Earth… I mean from the alternate timeline… not our real past in this timeline?”<br><br>“It’s kind of fuzzy, Liz… it’s just starting to come back to me… a little bit more each day. I remember working with Michael in some way to try to fix the timeline. I remember Jim being hurt… or maybe killed.”<br><br>Liz looked shocked, but then she seemed to remember something about it herself. “Yeah, I think he was… I remember something about that being said.”<br><br>“Well don’t look at me, girls,” Jim said. “I was dead. I can’t help you.”<br><br>“Maybe you were just hurt, Jim. I’m not sure you were dead.”<br><br>“No, I was dead, Liz,” Jim said with conviction.<br><br>“How do you know, Jim,” Kathleen asked. “Do you remember anything?”<br><br>“I remember… something,” Jim said.<br><br>“What,” Liz asked.<br><br>“I remember… that is, I think I remember… a bird… with a broken wing. I picked it up to see if I could help it, and it…”<br><br>“It what,” Kathleen prodded.<br><br>“It did something weird. It suddenly became very heavy and exploded or hit me with a flash of… energy or something… it blinded me.”<br><br>“What happened then?”<br><br>“I don’t know, Liz. That’s all I remember. Things just went blank after that. I think I might’ve been killed and fell into the quarry.”<br><br>“Yeah,” Kathleen agreed. “You were in the quarry! And you were… dead. I remember that now!”<br><br>Kathleen swallowed as she said the word “dead.” “I… I wanted to get us both back here to save you, Jim.”<br><br>“Well, the next thing I remember is being back here, Kath, so you girls must’ve done something right. But I guess I can’t be much help. You know, Michael could fill in a lot of these pieces. He came back with all his memories intact.”<br><br>“Yeah, I know,” Liz nodded. “But he doesn’t know what it is that I can’t remember. I already asked him.”<br><br>“Did he tell you anything else?”<br><br>“Not much. He said I needed to remember it all myself. But I know that Kyle was a professional trainer or something and Alex was famous… I think he was a country-rock crossover singer. And I was head of the molecular biology department at Harvard and almost married some idiot professor who won a Nobel using work I had done. Michael stopped the wedding.”<br><br>“Did Michael tell you all that,” Jim asked.<br><br>“No. I remembered most of it. Michael just confirmed it and gave me a few details I wasn’t clear on.”<br><br>“Yeah? Head of molecular biology at Harvard, huh? Way to go, Liz… I think. What about me?” <br><br>“You were the sheriff, Jim… in Roswell.” <br><br>“Dang, I was hoping I was a famous singer, too,” Jim said, feigning disappointment. <br><br>“You can sing for me, Jim,” Kathleen said. “I like your singing.”<br><br>“My groupie,” Jim said with a grin. “You know who else could fill in the gaps for us… those Nogi-K’ya guys. They were there wherever we were. They were in both timelines. They just moved around between the timelines like walking from one room to another.”<br><br>“Yeah, I know,” Liz nodded. “But they won’t tell me. They know! I’m sure of it… but they refused to tell me what I need to know.”<br><br>“Not very friendly of them,” Jim said.<br><br>“It’s not that… It’s just that they have these strict laws about changing time and all, and they’re afraid that telling me will cause some kind of time disruption or something.”<br><br>“They worry too much,” Jim said, shaking his head with a sigh. “It’s a wonder they ever get anything done at all. They spend their whole lives ‘studying possible ramifications.’ They don’t have time to do anything that might cause ramifications!”<br><br>Liz and Kathleen both laughed, and Max smiled.<br><br>“What about you, Max,” Jim asked. “What were you in the alternate timeline?”<br><br>Max shook his head. “I don’t know. I haven’t remembered yet.”<br><br>“Nothing?”<br><br>Max shook his head. It wasn’t the whole and honest truth. Max did remember some of his life with Liz in the future time “bubble.” He just hadn’t been able to explain it to himself yet. It wasn’t the alternate timeline that the others were in, and Max didn’t have that key to the puzzle yet… especially since he also remembered going to California after graduation and never seeing Liz again. Until he understood it himself, he was hesitant to mention anything at all. The fact is, Max had also felt a deep feeling in his gut… an empty feeling… like something had been lost that was far more than just important… something that had to be remembered. But Max had kept it to himself. He didn’t like to share his feelings openly with most people, and he wouldn’t share feelings that he didn’t understand with anyone.<br><br>“Strange that you don’t remember anything at all, Max,” Jim said. “Do you remember anything about Max in that timeline, Liz?” <br><br>Liz thought about it. “He was a student at Roswell High. We never really went together, I don’t think… just spoke to each other in the hall a few times. I went to Boston after I graduated, and I don’t know where Max went. I never saw him again.” Liz thought about it for a moment. “No… no, that’s not true. Max and I were together… at some time… But how can that be? I went to Boston and never saw him again.” <br><br>Liz looked troubled and perplexed. Jim thought he saw a similar look cross Max’s face.<br><br>“You sure you don’t remember anything, Max?”<br><br>Max shook his head then added, “Just what Liz said. What she remembers. That’s what I remember, too.”<br><br>“Then you do remember something.”<br><br>“I guess so… but it’s not important.”<br><br>“It might be, Max,” Kathleen said. “Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it’s not important.”<br><br>Max looked slightly embarrassed. “I guess you’re right, Kathleen, but if I don’t understand what I remember how can it help anyone?”<br><br>“Maybe if you and Liz both try, you might put the pieces together.”<br><br>Max nodded. “You’re probably right, Kathleen. I know I don’t open up much. I usually do with Liz, but I just don’t know how this could help. I don’t even know if it’s real… or just my imagination. I might just be misleading everyone… including myself.”<br><br>“Or you might not be,” Kathleen said. <br><br>Max nodded. “I remember going to California after graduation, like I said. I never saw Liz again after that… but… I also remember Liz coming to me… being with me.”<br><br>“That’s what I remember, too, Max,” Liz said.<br><br>“We were together for a while…” Max added.<br><br>“A day? A few hours? A month?” <br><br>“I don’t know, Kathleen,” Max said. “Longer, I think.”<br><br>“Longer than a month?”<br><br>Max nodded. Kathleen looked at Liz, and she nodded, too.<br><br>“Well, you both agree on something. There must be something to it.”<br><br>“Why didn’t Michael tell me this,” Liz asked, looking at Max.<br><br>“I don’t know, Liz. Maybe he didn’t know it.”<br><br>“How can he not know it, Max? He has all his memories!”<br><br>“Then maybe,” Kathleen interjected, “you need to figure out how you two had time to be together for more than a month without Michael knowing it.”<br><br>“Maybe,” Liz replied hesitantly. “I do recall hiding something from him.”<br><br>“Now we’re getting somewhere,” Kathleen said. “What was it that you hid from Michael?”<br><br>“I don’t know. I don’t remember.”<br><br>“Okay then, let’s try it a different way, Liz. Why didn’t you want him to know whatever it was?”<br><br>Liz thought about it. “Max said it could hurt our chances of getting back to this timeline, I think.”<br><br>“Do you remember that, Max,” Kathleen asked, turning to Max. “Why would it hurt your chances?”<br><br>“I don’t know. I think the Nogi-K’ya said it would… or might.”<br><br>“Figures,” Jim mumbled.<br><br>“So the Nogi-K’ya were there,” Kathleen nodded. “Who else? Was anyone else there?”<br><br>“There were other people, sure. Max was in the palace here on Antar… but… it wasn’t here… not in this timeline, I mean… It was somewhere else. Michael wasn’t here. Kyle, Alex, Jim, and Tess weren’t here either… and you weren’t here.”<br><br>“What you’re saying, Liz,” Jim interjected, “is that it was a totally different timeline. That’s the only conclusion I can get from it. If it wasn’t this timeline and it wasn’t the timeline we were all in… the alternate one… it had to be a totally different timeline. How did you get there? Do you remember?”<br><br>“I think I used the sphere,” Liz said.<br><br>“Why did you go to this other timeline,” Kathleen asked.<br><br>“I was looking for Max… in the future, I think.”<br><br>“Do you remember why?”<br><br>“No… well, maybe. I think I wanted to find out if Max was really there and we were really married.”<br><br>“Okay. That’s important,” Kathleen said. “So you went to the future with the sphere. Only… it was the future of the timeline you were in, not this timeline… not the one you’re married to Max in.”<br><br>“Yeah… that must have been what happened,” Liz said.<br><br>“And you found Max,” Kathleen continued, “but the rest of us weren’t there. So you spent time with Max there… over a month according to Max…”<br><br>“A lot more, I think…” Liz said hesitantly. “A year, maybe.”<br><br>Kathleen’s mouth dropped open. “A year? And Michael didn’t know this?”<br><br>“No. I returned to the exact time I had left from, so there was no time lapse for him. It would have been like I left and came right back.”<br><br>“A year!” Kathleen repeated, incredulous.<br><br>As Kathleen was thinking about this, Danyy came running into the house, his hair slicked down flat. <br><br>“Mom! Look what I got!” he held out his hand, and in his hand were seven coruns, three yaronins, and several kyrin, close to fifteen dollars if measured in Earth money. <br><br>“Where’d you get that, Danyy?”<br><br>“People have been paying me to let them take pictures of me with my head in Jung-Jo’s mouth.”<br><br>“Oh, for…” Kathleen huffed. “Jim, you’ve really got to do something about this.”<br><br>Jim smiled and nodded. “D’you think they’d pay me if I stick my head in his mouth, Danyy?”<br><br>“<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Jim!</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->”<br><br>“Alright… alright… just kidding, Kath. How about it, Danyy?”<br><br>Kathleen pursed her lips together tightly. At that moment, the three pawgor cubs followed Danyy into the house. Everybody laughed, and Liz added an “awwwww.”<br><br>“They’re adorable, Kathleen.”<br><br>“Outside, they’re adorable,” Kathleen said. “Inside, they’re something else. Danyy, can you take your friends back outside? Please?”<br><br>“Sure, Mom.” Danyy turned and herded the young cubs back out into the yard.<br><br>“Kath,” Liz said with some hesitation. “Why do I feel like there were four cubs?”<br><br>“I don’t know, Liz. There were always only three.”<br><br>“I’m getting that feeling again, Max… like one of them is missing.” <br><br>Kathleen looked at Liz and suddenly became almost white. “Liz, you were with Max for how long? A year?”<br><br>“I think so.” Suddenly, Liz realized where Kathleen was going, and all the color drained from her face, too. <br><br>“Omigod! Omigod! …<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Jeffy!</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->”<br><br><br><br>tbc<br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: The Four Faces of Rath (Sequel to Children of the Univer
I <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :love --><img src=http://www.majiklmoon.com/ezboardsmilies/love.gif ALT=":love"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> this story. The detail you give is utterly amazing! I don't know how you manage to do it, but rock on! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :thumbsup --><img src=http://www.uniquehardware.co.uk/server- ... humpup.gif ALT=":thumbsup"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> I am so glad I waited a while to catch up..I got answers and more answers and now a cliffhanger! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.majiklmoon.com/ezboardsmilies/lol.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p> <!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:white;font-family:century gothic;font-size:medium;">Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--><br><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:olive;font-family:century gothic;font-size:medium;">Rudyard Kipling, English author</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--><br> < </p><i></i>
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Re: The Four Faces of Rath (Sequel to Children of the Univer
Thanks, Melisa! I appreciate that! Well, before we see what Liz is going to do, let's check in on another of our displaced Earthlings. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... /smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br><br><br> <p><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://users.aol.com/isndbreeze/skysymb ... <!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:gold;">Gerry<br>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -<br>Hopeless Candy-Coated, Stargazing, <!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">Dreamer</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END-->!<br>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>
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The Four Faces of Rath (Sequel to Children of the Universe)
The Four Faces of Rath<br><br><br><br> <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="font-size:medium;">Jungle Jim</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--><br><br>Chapter 46</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>XLVI <br><br><br><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="font-size:large;">F</span><!--EZCODE FONT END-->ew Antarians were still on the street, and those who still were were not stopping to talk to anyone. A quick “hello” was all one could get from most of them as they rushed toward home or in the direction of the nearest public vision screen.<br><br>“Where’s everyone going in such a hurry,” a Xarian tourist asked a young Antarian man who rushed by him.<br><br>“Home… to watch the vision screen.”<br><br>“What’s so important?”<br><br>“Jungle Jim. Today’s his first show. He’s going into the Nan-Torel. It’s going to be on vision screen live. He’s going to get eaten! I don’t want to miss it!”<br><br>“Jungle Jim?”<br><br>“Where are you from, man,” the Antarian yelled back from half way down the street. “Everybody knows the pawgor guy. That’s Jungle Jim.” <br><br>The Xarian started to ask something else, but the Antarian was already gone. So he did what everyone else seemed to be doing. He headed in the direction of the nearest public vision screen to watch whatever it was that the Antarians were all in a titter over.<br><br>At the edge of the public square, set into the wall of one of the public buildings, the Xarian found a large public viewing screen, already surrounded by a good-size crowd. <br><br>“Who’s this ‘Jungle Jim,’” the Xarian asked a man standing near him.<br><br>“You’re kidding, right?” The Antarian answered with a smile.<br><br>The Xarian shook his head. “No. I’m from Xarius. I don’t know.”<br><br>“Oh. Well, he’s one of the people from Eluymer. You know, the planet they call Urth.”<br><br>“Is he one of the ones who helped rescue the children from the Ghors?”<br><br>“Yeah. He’s one of them.” The Antarian looked at the Xarian and grinned. “He belongs to the woman who kicked Hosk the Ghor in the crotch…”<br><br>“Oh! That guy! Yeah, I know who he is now! Is that the guy that’s going to go into the Nan-Torel?”<br><br>“Yeah. It’s his first show. Everybody thinks it’ll be his last show. He’s going to get eaten.”<br><br>“Shhh,” a woman in front of them said. “It’s starting.”<br><br>Suddenly a hush came over the crowd, as Jim came onto the screen. He was standing at the edge of the Nan-Torel.<br><br>“Hello Antar! Today is a big day for me, and I hope it will be a memorable one for you, too.”<br><br>“That’s a pretty safe bet,” the Antarian whispered to the Xarian.<br><br>“Today, we’re going to go into the Nan-Torel, a place where Antarians have rarely ventured, to examine closely some of the unique and beautiful plant and animal life that is so abundant there. Follow me as we walk into this wondrous wild masterpiece of nature.”<br><br>Jim walked toward the edge of the jungle. As he did, he seemed to get further and further away from the cameras. Then he turned around and motioned to his camera crew.<br><br>“You’re falling behind, guys.”<br><br>Somebody said something from behind the cameras.<br><br>“Oh, for the love o’… Now’s not the time to tell me this. You didn’t think I was going to lug all the cameras in there and film myself, did you? Somebody’s got to go along with me.”<br><br>The crowd in front of the square was starting to chuckle among themselves. They understood the camera crew all too well. Jim might be ready to get eaten by wild pawgors or God knows what else. He was a crazy alien. But the cameramen were Antarians… and they were not.<br><br>“Cut! Cut!” Jim yelled, making a slashing motion across his throat to tell the cameramen to turn off the cameras. But then he seemed to have second thoughts, and he walked over and looked into the cameras again.<br><br>“Folks, it looks like our trip into the infamous Nan-Torel is going to be delayed…” Under his breath, he added, “until I can find a camera crew with some backbones.”<br><br>By now, the crowd in front of the vision screen was laughing hysterically. This was almost as good as seeing Jim get eaten. And that still might happen… if he could find someone else crazy enough to go into the Nan-Torel with him and film it.<br><br>“This is Jungle Jim the Pawgors’ Friend saying good-bye till next week,” Jim said to his audience. “I’ll be here… right here… next week… ready to take you on a trip that you’ll never forget. I hope you’ll be here, too. Until then, stay safe, and take time out to look at the world around you.” The camera’s went off, and the news commentators came on to go over what they had just seen. It seemed that the news crews were just as amused as the general populace. Jim’s first show had not gone as he had planned. But it was already the big hit of the season.<br><br><br><br>tbc<br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: The Four Faces of Rath (Sequel to Children of the Univer
I missed two updates no thanks to RL! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :doh --><img src=http://www.majiklmoon.com/ezboardsmilies/doh.gif ALT=":doh"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> but it was a whole lot of fun reading them together. It was so good to see Liz finally remember and for Max to as well! that just shows how close they are! It must be so hard for them! (So how about making sure Jeffy makes an appearance soon?<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START ;) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... s/wink.gif ALT=";)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> ) and I couldn't stop laughing <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :rollin --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... s/roll.gif ALT=":rollin"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> when I read about Jim trying to coax the cameramen into the Nan-Torel!<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :spit --><img src=http://www.gamers-forums.com/smilies/cwm/cwm/spit.gif ALT=":spit"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> and I definately think he's show is a hit! So is your story Gerry!<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :thumbsup --><img src=http://www.uniquehardware.co.uk/server- ... humpup.gif ALT=":thumbsup"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sra ... 55ad1f.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--></p><i></i>
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The Four Faces of Rath (Sequel to Children of the Universe)
The Four Faces of Rath<br><br><br><br> <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="font-size:medium;">Unpleasant Realities</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--><br><br>Chapter 47</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>XLVII <br><br><br><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="font-size:large;">M</span><!--EZCODE FONT END-->aria walked into the suite that housed Zan’s office and several other government offices and smiled at the receptionist.<br><br>“Is Max in his office?”<br><br>“He’s busy at the moment, Maria. Can I let him know you’re here?”<br><br>“No. Don’t bother. I’ll just go on down to his office.”<br><br>“Maria, I don’t…” <br><br>It was too late. Maria was already half way down the hall. Reaching the door to Max’s office, she stopped to check herself over quickly then reached for the handprint on the door. It had long ago been encoded with her DNA. Like the rest of the group, Maria was authorized to enter at will. She started to press her hand to the handprint, but she heard someone talking inside… <br><br>“Zan, that’s my last one! Have a heart!”<br><br>The voice sounded familiar. Maria stopped and pulled her hand back for a moment to listen.<br><br>“You’ll get over it.”<br><br>“I won’t. This will do me in. If you do this, it’s all over for me, Zan. I’m begging you.”<br><br>That sounded like Rayylar, Tess’ husband.<br><br>“That’s the way it goes,” Max’s voice said.<br><br>“But you already have seven, Zan. Let me just have this one! Just one?”<br><br>“Can’t do it, Rayylar. It would destroy my reputation.”<br><br>“As a despot?”<br><br>“Call it what you will.”<br><br>“What gives you the right to take them all?”<br><br>“See that crown? I’m a king.”<br><br>Maria’s mouth dropped several inches, and she inhaled with a gasp.<br><br>“Just give me one more chance, Zan. I can get out of this slump, I’m sure of it.”<br><br>“Bring some more dough, Rayylar, and I’ll think about it.”<br><br>Maria gasped, then she placed her hand on the handprint quickly, and the door slid open. She was prepared to give Max a scathing earful. Maria didn’t know why he was being cruel. It wasn’t like Max… at least not like the Max she thought she knew. <br><br>Max and Rayylar looked up from the table… and both were smiling.<br><br>“Maria! Come on in,” Max said.<br><br>Maria looked around, perplexed. Then she saw the strands of sugar dough all over the place… on the table… on the chairs… on Max and Rayylar.<br><br>“What’s going on here,” Maria asked, a totally baffled look on her face.<br><br>“What do you mean,” Max asked. “Oh, you mean the sugar dough? Max reached up and pulled a strand out of his hair.<br><br>“We were playing Jaht-Roo,” Rayylar answered. Zan took my last star ship. He has beat me seven games now. No one can beat him!”<br><br>“Bring some more sugar dough tomorrow,” Max said, “and I’ll give you another chance… to lose again.”<br><br>“You’re heartless, Zan,” Rayylar said with a smile. “If you hadn’t had that double deck star destroyer, the one you keep referring to as a ‘king,’ I could have beat you this time.”<br><br>Max smiled. “But I did.”<br><br>“One of these days, Zan! One of these days I’m going to beat you.”<br><br>“Keep thinking that, Rayylar. They say delusions are good for some people.”<br><br>Rayylar grinned and shook Max’s hand in the Antarian fashion.<br><br>“See you tomorrow, Rayylar?”<br><br>“Count on it!”<br><br>Rayylar smiled and left the office.<br><br>“Maria! We can talk now. What brings you here?”<br><br>Maria stammered for a moment. I… I forgot. Jaht-Roo! You were playing Jaht-Roo?”<br><br>“Yeah…”<br><br>“I… I… Oh! Yeah! Liz said to tell you that Durj’ori is at the palace.”<br><br>“Oh! Good,” Max said, jumping up quickly and wiping more sugar dough off his clothes and out of his hair. “Liz and I asked him to come. It’s about the baby.”<br><br>“Jeffy,” Maria nodded. “Liz told me. Do you think you’ll find him, Max?”<br><br>Max shook his head sadly. “I don’t know, Maria. We’re going to exhaust every effort trying. We’ll find him… or spend our lives trying. You can be sure of that.”<br><br>“I know,” Maria said softly. “I’ve talked to Liz. She’s being really brave, but I can see in her eyes that she’s hurting. I know I would be.”<br><br>Max nodded and swallowed. “I want him back, too, Maria. It’s been two weeks since Liz remembered Jeffy when we were at the Valenti’s place, and we still don’t know how we’re going to find him. We spent eight days together doing nothing but looking for him and trying to think of some way to get him back. The sphere can’t take us to him, because –according to the Drax-ta-Kiya- that timeline was just a bubble and doesn’t exist at all anymore. We’re talking to Durj’ori today… to see if the Nogi-K’ya can do anything.”<br><br>“I hope they can help,” Maria said. “I really want to see that little guy.”<br><br>Max swallowed hard, and his eyes misted up. “So do I, Maria. I want to see him again, I mean.”<br><br>“You remember him, Max?”<br><br>“Yeah. As soon as Liz said his name at Jim and Kath’s place, I knew what had been missing. Let’s go to the palace. You coming with me?”<br><br>Maria nodded, and the two of them left quickly together.<br><br><br><br> <!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center">**********</div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--><br><br><br><br>Liz closed her eyes and wiped them with the backs of her fingers, then she looked straight at Durj’ori…<br><br>“You were able to pop in and out of that bubble whenever you wanted to, Durj’ori. All your people were. What’s keeping you from doing it now?”<br><br>“The bubble isn’t there now,” Durj’ori said softly but firmly.<br><br>“I understand that. But your people can go backward and forward in time. The bubble was there at some point in time. You can go back to that point in time and find it.”<br><br>Durj’ori shook his head. “You don’t understand. The bubble has no past. It has no future. It was a ‘bubble,’ not a timeline. When it ceased to exist, it ceased to exist… forever. There is no past for it. I’m… sorry.”<br><br>“You mean even the Nogi-K’ya can’t find it?”<br><br>“We cannot find what does not exist.”<br><br>“But it does,” Liz said with absolute conviction. “It does exist. I don’t know where. I don’t know how. But I feel it, Durj’ori. I feel Jeffy!”<br><br>“Those are the instincts of a mother, Elizabeth… the feelings of a mother… maternal instincts. They are powerful… but sometimes they are only that.”<br><br>“No, they’re more,” Liz said firmly. “Jeffy is there… somewhere. I don’t know where somewhere is, but I know he’s there. I will find him.”<br><br>Durj-ori looked at Liz and then looked at Max. Then he looked down. The unpleasant reality was that there was nothing more to say. Neither he nor any other Nogi-K’ya could find Jeffy… even if they would be willing to, which was a big question mark as it was. Usually, before a Nogi-K’ya would intervene in time matters, their board had to do extensive studies, studies that took longer than humans –or Antarians– with their more limited life spans, could wait.<br><br>“I left that bubble,” Liz said after a few moments of thought. “and I have memories of it. Max has memories of it, too… just like we all have memories of the alternate timeline. Is it possible to have memories of something that never existed, Durj’ori?”<br><br>“I can’t answer that, Elizabeth,” Durj’ori said. “If you have memories then the answer must be yes. I would not think that it was possible, though.”<br><br>“Exactly,” Liz said. “I’ll find Jeffy, Durj’ori. With or without your help… I’ll find my baby.”<br><br>Durj’ori just nodded. “I wish you luck, Elizabeth… and Zan. I am truly sorry that we could not help you find the baby, but I have explained our reasons. We are powerless to help. We would at least study the possibilities for you if there was a hope of our finding your son… but…”<br><br>“Alright,” Max said, waving Durj’ori off, acknowledging the finality of Durj’ori’s decision. “We’ll work on other angles, Liz. We haven’t exhausted every possibility yet, Hon. Don’t give up.”<br><br>Liz smiled, and her eyes misted up. Then she gave Max a quick kiss on the lips.<br><br><br><br> <!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center">**********</div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--><br><br><br><br>At the home of Michael and Maria Guerin, it was dinnertime, and the family sat together around the table. The main topic of discussion, unsurprisingly, was Liz and Max’s lost baby.<br><br>“I don’t know, Maria. Liz never mentioned her relationship with Max in the ‘bubble’ or whatever it was when we were together. She left and she came right back. I know how time works, but it’s really hard for me to grasp that she could have spent a whole year there and got pregnant and had a baby… and I never even suspected anything when she came back. I know it’s possible, of course. It just seems so… incredible.”<br><br>“Well, obviously she did it, Michael. Both of them remember it.”<br><br>“Yeah. I’m not doubting her memories or her word, Maria. It’s just that it’s… so incredible. I mean… she left me one moment… She returned like a minute later… and she had had a baby.”<br><br>“Yeah.” Maria smiled. “I’ll have to ask her how she did that.”<br><br>Michael smiled, too. “Well, we know that it really happened and Jeffy was real. Max and Liz both are sure of it, and I trust them, no matter how bizarre or incredible the story may seem.”<br><br>“Besides,” Maria added, “the Nogi-K’ya guy, Durj’ori, confirmed that the bubble did exist… once, and that they were there and Jeffy was there. It just doesn’t exist now… anywhere in time apparently.”<br><br>“Well, see, now that’s just odd, too,” Michael said, taking another bite of grelliats with Tabasco sauce. “If something once existed, for it to have no past now…”<br><br>“It’s possible, Dad,” Kryys said.<br><br>“How?”<br><br>“Well, it’s kind of like you said. It was a displaced, capsulated, and isolated time event.”<br><br>“I said that?” Michael asked, raising his eyebrows.<br><br>“Maybe not exactly, Dad, but yeah.”<br><br>“So what does it mean,” Michael asked.<br><br>“That it has no lasting past or future. When it’s gone it’s gone. Poof! No more.”<br><br>“Then how is it that Liz can still feel Jeffy?”<br><br>Kryys shook his head. “I don’t know.”<br><br>“Is there something more to time than just time, Kryys?”<br><br>Kryys looked at his father. In some way, he actually understood what Michael was getting at.<br><br>“There is a place… beyond time,” Kryys said. “It’s beyond the reach of the Nogi-K’ya.”<br><br>“What is it? Like… Heaven or something?”<br><br>“No… not exactly. Not that far. It’s more like when you delete something on your computer. It’s gone, but it’s still compressed somewhere in the computer. Nothing is ever really gone.”<br><br>“You mean their baby might be compressed somewhere?”<br><br>“No! Of course not! I guess that wasn’t a good analogy, Dad. It’s more like… everything is made up of atoms. Their baby was made up of atoms. Those atoms still exist. Atoms don’t disappear or go away. But the atoms no longer have the forms that they once did. They’re scattered now.”<br><br>“Like when you do your swirly thing…?”<br><br>“Yeah… Only I control them and bring them all back together. Jeffy can’t do that, so his atoms are no longer in the form that used to be Jeffy.”<br><br>“So where are they? Spread all over the universe?”<br><br>“Maybe. But somewhere… beyond the realm of time… the essence or aura of Jeffy still may exist… and a pattern of who he was. It’s not impossible to believe that that could be found and his atoms retrieved and reorganized.”<br><br>“A pattern… you mean, like an actual blueprint?”<br><br>“Well, not like you’re thinking of, Dad. More like a sort of resonance in time… a cosmic displacement of sorts where he once was. Like music that came from grooves on what you used to call a record on Earth, Dad. No one had to be there singing, because the grooves produced a resonance that precisely recreated the music. The universe and time are like the grooves of a record. Jeffy would have left an imprint on the universe, and that imprint would produce a resonance… the music. We all do. It might be possible to find it. If it can be found, it could be used to reassemble his original atoms… to reassemble Jeffy.” <br><br>“Could the Nogi-K’ya do this?”<br><br>Kryys smiled. “Not a chance, Dad.”<br><br>“Could the Drax-ta-Kiya do it?”<br><br>“Maybe. I don’t know. It’s more in his realm than in the time realm that the Nogi’s deal with.”<br><br>“Could you do it?” Michael asked.<br><br>Kryys was silent for several moments. “I think… maybe… I’m not sure.”<br><br>Michael looked at Kryys, and Kryys smiled. “I’ll be right back, Dad.”<br><br>Kryys’ body began to glow then dissolved into billions of shining atoms that swirled upward… then through the ceiling… then into the sky above.<br><br>“Great,” Maria said. “He forgot to wash his hands and face again.”<br><br><br><br> <!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center">**********</div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--><br><br><br><br>Kryys’ atoms reassembled themselves next to the River of Time, and Kryys looked up the river… not with the eyes of a mortal but with a non-mortal awareness. After a time, he saw what he wanted. Dissolving into atoms again, Kryys reappeared somewhere on the other side of the river. It was an odd place… not really anything at all… just… nothing. It was beyond time and mere reality. It was here that Kryys expected to find Jeffy’s residual pattern… or resonance… if there was one. Not his actual aura or his soul… those would not be found here… but a sort of pattern of who he had been. It didn’t take long. Kryys dissolved into a whirlwind of atoms once more then began to add other atoms to his own. After several minutes, he reappeared at the edge of the River of Time. <br><br>Holding out his arms, Kryys summoned the cosmic winds to him. The winds began to blow… faster, then faster, whipping past Kryys’ outstretched arms, slowly “building” a small form… one atom at a time. When they were finished, Kryys looked at the figure in his arms. It was a dark-haired baby with an angelic face. It looked back at him… and it smiled.<br><br>Kryys smiled back at the baby in his arms. “You are kind of cute… for a baby, I mean.”<br><br>Kryys held the baby to him and dissolved once more into a whirlwind of atoms, reappearing in the dining room with his parents. He looked at his arms, but Jeffy was not there. Without a word, he dissolved again and reappeared on the edge of the River of Time.<br><br>“You tried, Kryys. It didn’t work, did it?”<br><br>Kryys didn’t need to turn around. He knew who it was. “What happened, Master? Where is Jeffy?”<br><br>“Where he was. You cannot bring him back, little Sundrop.”<br><br>“Why not, Master Drax?”<br><br>“Ah, little Sundrop! It is one of the greatest mysteries of the universe. Man can do all manner of things to others when they are men… but once they are in this realm, only they can make the decision to leave here.”<br><br>“But Jeffy’s a baby, Master Drax. He can’t make any decisions for himself.”<br><br>“I know, Kryys. And that is why he cannot come back.”<br><br>“It’s not fair, Master Drax. Jeffy would want to be with his Mama if he knew how…”<br><br>“But he does not know.”<br><br>“So there is no hope then, Master?”<br><br>“Well… I didn’t say that, Sundrop. You have found him. That is something. Now you must find out how to return him.”<br><br>“Can you tell me, Master?”<br><br>“No, Sundrop. It is not because I am unwilling. It is because I do not know. If this is to be done, it is something that powers beyond my own will have to accomplish.”<br><br>“I must find the way?”<br><br>“You must find the way, Sundrop.”<br><br>Kryys nodded. Then he dissolved and reappeared in his own home.<br><br><br><br>tbc<br><br><br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub129.ezboard.com/bmajiklmoonsr ... dbreeze</A> <IMG HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=10 SRC="http://users.aol.com/isndbreeze/aim116b.jpg" BORDER=0> at: 8/30/03 11:24 pm<br></i>
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Re: The Four Faces of Rath (Sequel to Children of the Univer
Thanks for the great feedback, Fallen Magic! It helps keep me going. Here's the next part. Well, you get your wish... partly. And there's more ahead, so keep on reading! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... /smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br><br><br> <p><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://users.aol.com/isndbreeze/skysymb ... <!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:gold;">Gerry<br>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -<br>Hopeless Candy-Coated, Stargazing, <!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">Dreamer</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END-->!<br>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>
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Re: The Four Faces of Rath (Sequel to Children of the Univer
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Re: The Four Faces of Rath (Sequel to Children of the Univer
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