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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">“I’ll keep that in mind. And these are truly wonderful
scones,” Krystal
said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">“I’ll tell Allison you want the recipe.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>She will be delighted. But now I have a riddle for you.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Did one of your people,
perhaps two years
back, put a geas on the Wells house?” Morgana asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">“I can’t imagine why anyone would have done that. They
were not of
interest, other than the kidnapping that was solved, until
very recently. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Not
that I have many people who can geas
anything,” Krystal answered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">“This was a top-chord third level schema, perhaps
touching fourth.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It
was a considerable nuisance to remove,”
Morgana said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">“I see.”<span class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:George"
datetime="2016-12-24T23:08"> </ins></span>Krystal bit her
tongue.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The number of
people who could place or
remove a fourth-level construct was vanishingly small. “What
did it do?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">“Nothing that made sense.” Margana took a deep sip of
her coffee.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“Janie had
a City of Steel playing partner, a
guy about her age, a boy named ‘Joe’.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>The geas meant that you weren’t going to be very
interested in exactly
who he was, where he came from, how to contact him, or where
else you might
have met him. Janie knew who he was, but didn’t bother to tell
her parents she
had met him earlier.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He
was very
interested in becoming a better City player, no matter how
unpleasant the
intermediate losses were. Playing Janie, the losses were
substantial.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">“When did she meet him earlier?” Krystal said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">“Joe was the young man who rescued Janie and sister
from the Perversion
Circle, two years ago,” Morgana answered.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>“When I learned that, I did ask Janie the key question,
legally speaking.
Yes, I asked mentalically, so as not to annoy her parents.
Some parents would
be annoyed that I asked.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Some
would have
become absurdly annoyed if the answer had been “yes”. In any
event, he and
Janie are not carrying on with each other.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">“Oh, good.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>She’s
awfully young
for that.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Can you
imagine the legal
complications if they had been? She wouldn’t be available as a
witness, and
life gets complicated from there. Is his private persona
private? What do his
parents think of all this?” <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Krystal
asked.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>After a moment,
she made the connection. “If
we don’t know who he is, how can we warn his parents, or
protect him from
Kamensky and friends?” Krystal wished that truly young
personas were not
involved. That situation could readily become extremely ugly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">“It perhaps matters. Two years back, on Castle Island,
he made off with
a Krell disruptor pistol. That’s the pistol that shot him,
square into his
shields, without his shields going down. He was ten or eleven
at the time,”
Morgana answered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“A ten-year-old
with a <span class="msoDel"><del cite="mailto:George"
datetime="2016-12-24T23:08"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></del></span>Krell
pistol?” Krystal’s question
was purely rhetorical. “Why not a strategic transmutation
bomb, too? Hopefully
he realizes it is not a toy? And how did his shields not go
down?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">“I don’t know who his parents are,” Morgana answered.
“I don’t know
where he lives.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The
geas ensured
that.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It wouldn’t have
blocked me, but I
never met Joe to ask. I don’t know what he did with the
pistol, the matching
force field bracer, or why he was so interested in playing
Janie. Extremely
strong shields covers a great deal of uninformative ground.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Asking him your questions
requires that he
shows up again to play Janie, which he has not done in several
weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>If you count,
someone planted that geas.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This
kid has shields as good as yours, except
he was perhaps ten at the time. <span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Also,
after Joe rescued Janie, something marched through the Castle
Island Jail,
exfoliated the kidnappers’ minds, and neutralized the
Perversion Circle. That
something that does not appear to have been Joe. There are
some really first rate
personas <span class="msoDel"><del cite="mailto:George"
datetime="2016-12-24T23:08">mmoving</del></span><span
class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:George"
datetime="2016-12-24T23:08">moving</ins></span> near the
Wells family, without leaving enough of a trace that I can
identify them.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">LEAGUE OF NATIONS HERE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:
0in">Chapter Twelve<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">The Invisible Fortress<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">Morning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">January 16, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">Unfortunately, yesterday evening was the night that
the healing matrix
decided that I should start ramping down the mind control,
meaning I would feel
a bit more pain, so the matrix would know exactly what it had
to fix. I did
what I was told, but I certainly can’t claim I was comfortable
afterwards. I
allowed that if I lay in my bed I was actually falling asleep
a reasonable part
of the time, even though I was very aware of the interminable
minutes when I
was too uncomfortable to sleep. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">I finally got up and pulled all of my curtains tightly
closed, <span class="msoDel"><del cite="mailto:George"
datetime="2016-12-24T23:08"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></del></span>so
I would sleep through the
sunrise into the next day. I did wake up in time for more
stretching and
bending exercises, hot shower and getting dressed, and finding
that it was very
definitely time for a very late breakfast. Chopped onions,
chopped green
pepper, chopped portobello mushrooms, chopped sausage, all
sautéed in olive oil
with garlic and a nice dose of curry powder, followed by two
eggs whipped up
with a bit of milk, and I had a nice omelette. The supply of
multigrain toasted
sunflower bread was unfortunately starting to go downhill, but
I was very
definitely not up to assuming my old lady disguise to go
shopping. Perhaps I
would have to start baking scones. They’re nice and simple.
Even I can make
them well. And I had a quite adequate supply of brown sugar
and other
components for the caramel frosting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">I went out to the barn, checked on ponies and cats,
and was happy to
learn the ponies and cats thought outdoors was just fine at
the moment, so that
I had no barn work, <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I
still visited my
ponies, hugged and curry-combed them, checked their hooves,
and spent a while
petting two cats. Then it was back to Liouville’s butterflies.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">I can’t claim I’ve had a lot of experience dealing
with people who lie out
of habit. Mum gave me some abstract lessons. Yes, I’m a
persona. I’ve met a few
criminals. Most of them were dead afterwards. Some were less
lucky. When I
skimmed later parts of the book, it was really obvious that
the people who did
not want to believe the Liouville-Gibbs theorem were prepared
to say almost
anything in order to discredit it. I don’t know if they were
lying out of
habit, but they were certainly working hard at lying, for no
particularly
obvious reason. Indeed, one of the later chapters, one that I
much enjoyed
reading carefully, spent its time going through the arguments
against the Liouville-Gibbs
theorem, and explaining exactly how the authors of the
arguments had cheated in
making their cases. Learning how people cheat in arguments is
good.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">The book really wasn’t all that long, a couple-three
hundred pages. The
30 pages of theorem had been really demanding. That’s assuming
‘really
demanding’ is a synonym for ‘mostly incomprehensible’. <span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I was going to have to
learn a fair piece to
understand them. The 250 following pages were much, much
easier. No one tried
to prove the math was wrong. They just argued about what the
math meant. Well,
except for the strange chapter on the Dagger of Time. The
Dagger is not the
same as time travel, but it somehow ignores cause and effect
because it lives
sideways to the flow of time. The chapter was imprecise about
whether the
Dagger was an artifact or a person, or both. <span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>On the other hand, the
chapter was very clear
on why the Dagger appeared.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It
existed
to correct side effects when people were using time travel.
How could it be
both an artifact and a person? The chapter was very obscure.
It also didn’t
seem to have anything to do with the rest of the book. The
chapter author
claimed to be a Prioress of the Goetic Knights, an office that
ceased to<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>xist
thousands of years before the book was
written,<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>who said she
had used time
travel to make what appeared to be tiny changes that actually
had the desired
effects. The Dagger of Time cleaned up the minor issues the
Prioress had left
behind. Time travel requires enormous amounts of power.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It was only on rereading
an obscure sentence
that I realized that the Prioress appeared to have used the
Orb of RetCon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">GR, now I sort of understood what the book said. For
sure I hadn’t
learned the math parts. There were a bunch of places, like
almost all of them, where
I had to take the word of the author that the math actually
did what she said
it did. It was still a marvelously strange result. How could a
world start out
totally different than ours, and end up very nearly the same
as the world we
live in? I suppose the answer is that it’s the same as ‘a
world almost like
ours at the start can end up totally different at the far
end’. A world that
started like ours ends up very much like some other very
different world, so
people on that other world and its neighbors would see that
totally different
starting points could lead to almost the same present, the one
they lived
in.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Those people are
not in a special place,
so our world has the same property.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Some
nearly-the-same presents very much like ours had very
different pasts. Once I
told myself that, I decided that the book’s conclusions
actually were kind of
obvious, even if I might never have thought of them myself.
The “Ambassador of
the United States of America” could then have been a
cross-time traveler,
except cross-time travel is impossible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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