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“You mean he fears us, sees us as rivals or as a threat?”</h6></sup></p>
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<p><h3><center>911</center></h3></p>
<p>“That I think is obvious. I think he seriously misjudged you Roberto. He is probably in shock. His victims up to now must have been gifted people who had not really developed their abilities, people who were afraid of sharing with others the knowledge that they are different. We are lucky that you were forced by circumstances to share, the sharing helping us grow. I also think he did not realise how powerful your protector is.”</p>
<p>“If you are right Alki, I may have to damage the Cherinians.”</p>
<p>“What do you mean!!”</p>
<p>“I may have to kill him.”</p>
<p>“You are thinking of Marian?”</p>
<p>“She was right Alki. If I kill him, I do damage to all of us.” I explained about the path we have taken, compared to the path this other one has taken. “By killing him I will be forcing the Cherinians to deviate from the path Cherine set us onto and some of his evil becomes part of us. Yet, what else can I do if he is killing potential Cherinians!”</p>
<p>“None of us, not even you, are masters of our own fate. You do the best you can Roberto and concentrate on doing what is the best for your family. Not even Marian expects you to sacrifice any of your loves if the choice comes to that. If fate forces you to kill him, then we look for what good we can get out of it and learn to live with the bad.”</p>
<p>He then did something he had never done before. He put his arm around me, pulling me to him. He held me without speaking for a while.</p>
<p>“Roberto mou, I do not speak easily of things of the heart. I have nearly lost you so many times and we are again at a time of peril. I would not want anything to happen without you knowing how I feel. To me you are the son I never had. With all your craziness, with your turning my world upside down, even with your loving of little children, Roberto, I love you.”</p>
<p>“Cherine told me the first time she met you. You also know how much I love you - I am not so good at hiding my feelings.”</p>
<p>He tightened his arm around me. “Yes, I know and it is precious to me.” He let me go. “Roberto, do you really have to go the void alone? What can you learn there that is worth the risk?”</p>
<p>“The key to defeating him is my ability to follow him to his body. It must be possible, else how did he find…damn, but I am <i>stupid</i>!!!”</p>
<p>Cherine ran out to us, stopping and staring at me. I spoke as if she were not there. “Alki, I need to be able to see his soul. I must win the battle soul to soul, then I can enter his mind safely and destroy all his gifts. Close the doors forever. I could not think of how to find his body - that is how stupid I am. He has to be connected to it, all I have to do is follow his cord.”</p>
<p>“Robert! You will not go into his body.”</p>
<p>“I may have to Cherine.”</p>
<p>She did not call me stupid or throw a tantrum. She turned to Alki and pleaded with him. “Please pappou, he will not listen to me. That man, he <i>wants</i> Robert to go into his body, it is a trap. He must have a way of locking Robert in there.”</p>
<p>“What makes you think so kori mou?”</p>
<p>“Remember when he kicked me and broke my leg? He did that because he got very cross. I had just told him he must have a very ugly body, that no woman would want to touch him. While he was angry and kicking me I felt the hate he has for his body, that he wants to get rid of it.”</p>
<p>I pulled Cherine to me so that she stood in front of me. “I swear to you that I will not go into his body. You are breaking my heart Cherine.” I got up and walked from the verandah into the house.</p>
<p>I passed through the crowd in the sitting room and not one of them spoke to me, only my mother putting out her hand as if wanting to touch me, but she let me go by. I went out into the cold and stood in the garden hoping the tears in my heart would not come to my eyes.</p>
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<p><h3><center>912</center></h3></p>
<p>“Robert?”</p>
<p>“Leave me alone Wendy love. I need a few minutes.”</p>
<p>“No.” She came to me and put her arms around me. She jumped, taking me to her studio.</p>
<p>“Sit down Robbie. We need to talk.” This little angel of mine has changed too! It made the grief within me swell again.</p>
<p>“We are all growing up and it is hurting you?” I nodded. “I am growing up Robbie. I am changing, from being afraid all the time, I now give my fear to you and that leaves me free to find the music in me. It leaves me free to think and say I do not want this or that. It does not mean that I have stopped being the Wendy you love.”</p>
<p>“I think you just told me off by paying me the biggest compliment anyone ever has.”</p>
<p>“You are right about Cherine.”</p>
<p>“What do I do?” Suddenly I was crying and she was holding me, being my comfort. She did not say anything to console me, just held me.</p>
<p>“I do not understand. She still fights for me, she showed no fear when that animal took my body and hurt her. But the fire, that blithe spirit I adore in her, her blind trust in me, it is all going out.”</p>
<p>“Finish what you are doing now Robbie. Get rid of this threat. I promise you, I will let my music look into her and I will sing it for you. I may not understand her, but my music will. Maybe then you too will.”</p>
<p>“If you can, that would be the best gift you could give me.”</p>
<p>“Robbie, when you are losing what you love best in the one you love, that is the worst. The person still is there, but what you love so dearly, that is gone.”</p>
<p>“What are you telling me love?”</p>
<p>“I don’t know, I’m just a silly little girl talking and talking.”</p>
<p>“Either you are teasing me or you are becoming too deep for me. I will think about it.”</p>
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<p>“Socrati, something is bothering you?”</p>
<p>“I want to know. This man, you think he is brave?”</p>
<p>“No idea. I think he is used to attacking the weak.”</p>
<p>“Maybe he is also foolish? If so, then he will attack while we are all here.”</p>
<p>“Then I better give him the opportunity.”</p>
<p>I called them all to me.</p>
<p>“If I still had the scars they would be bright red by now. My body has been weakened so that it makes sense for me to leave, go to the void. The attacker, he knows that there are two people who are dangerous. Cherine and I. As long as we exist, the Cherinians are strong and grow. I have tried to make myself the target, but he might attack Cherine anyway. I just want you to all know, anything happens to my girl, I will kill him and once I know you are all safe, I will not return. Without her I have no reason to live, even though I love you all.”</p>
<p>“That is...” I was gone, letting my body settle as it willed. Instantly I was the void. I prepared.</p>
<p>I only sent a small part this time through the sliver in Cherine to watch her. The protector waited by her, ready to defend her or any of the others, instantly. I pulled vortexes of energy and created a trap to hold a soul. I sent a part of myself to Solomon.</p>
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<p><h3><center>913</center></h3></p>
<p><i>*I need a Sparkler to offer itself to me as a test. I am trying to create a trap out of my energies. Will one offer? I will try not to harm it and will release it if my trap works. Solomon, it must try to escape in any way it can.*</i></p>
<p><i>*You will have one that does not bear.*</i></p>
<p><i>*I agree, no point in endangering a soul that has not volunteered.*</i></p>
<p>Soon as a Sparkler separated from the others I snapped my trap. It sensed the energy around it, but moved out almost without effort. I saw how it actually used my energy to release itself, even feeding off my trap. I examined the energy of my trap and smiled to myself - it would not find it so easy this time. I reversed the polarity of my energy and sprung the trap. The Sparkler did not move. I waited as long as I could.</p>
<p><i>*Solomon, why is it not trying to escape?*</i></p>
<p><i>*You have it trapped?*</i></p>
<p><i>*That is what I am hoping.*</i></p>
<p>It tried to move out of the trap and we saw it jerk back.</p>
<p><i>*It reports a sharp corrosive pain.*</i></p>
<p><i>*Can it escape if it is willing to stand a certain amount of pain. Solomon, only what it can bear please - I do not want another death on my conscience.*</i></p>
<p>It struggled, flung back by it’s pain again and again until I saw it begin to dim. Instantly I reversed the polarity and fed it.</p>
<p><i>*This is terrifying Robert. You now hold us all prisoners at any time you wish to.*</i></p>
<p><i>*It is more terrifying than my ability to kill you was?*</i></p>
<p><i>*Yes. Before some of us could have escaped, stayed far from you and grown again. Now there is no escape if you are the void and are able to alter the energy that feeds us to trap and starve us.*</i></p>
<p><i>*It is not good that you live with such a fear. I swear to you Solomon, I will try to find a way to remove such a threat from you. No friend should have to depend on the goodwill of another.*</i></p>
<p><i>*Until then we are forced to depend on your friendship.*</i></p>
<p><i>*Not just friendship Solomon. There would be no honour in my using such a power. I have a question. This being attacking us, why can we not see it? It appears as a faint dark shadow to us.*</i></p>
<p><i>*You have not noticed within yourselves that the motes of love are bright, of pain and hate the darkest?*</i></p>
<p><i>*Solomon, if I had thought of that, what could I have done to stop you when we first met? You Sparklers are so bright you must be made of love. I could not have harmed one of you. Ordinx, Solomon, the one who attacks, it has no love.*</i></p>
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<p>I waited like a dark spider, my trap ready. He did not come and I had to return, else my body would truly die. I returned, stayed long enough to eat, drink and let my body recover. This continued for days and everybody was becoming edgy. Cherine was the hardest hit. I saw the dark rings, the haunted look in her eyes. She hardly ever spoke anymore and the girls felt her crying alone in the bathroom a couple of times. </p>
<p>I spoke to Themi, but there was nothing he could do, not while she is in the middle of this terrifying experience. He tried to bolster her, draw her out, but she was almost oblivious of him. It got to the point where I no longer feared the attacker, just what was happening to my love.</p>
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<p>“I cannot ask one of my girls. I need a volunteer, but it must be someone without a family. That only leaves me you. Will you help me Niko?”</p>
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<p>“How would I do it?”</p>
<p>“I will take you with me. When I become the void the protector will bring you with as part of me, our souls closely linked. I will let you see in my mind what I have prepared and hand over to you the controls. If he comes, you spring the trap and return.”</p>
<p>“Are you certain all this can be done? How do I get out of being ‘the void’ once you are gone?”</p>
<p>“I do not know. I don’t even know if I can take you in, but, if I can, I will check on you every couple of hours. If you trap him and you cannot get out, you only have to wait for me to return. Niko, there are many unknowns here, Dommi will hate me if anything happens to you, but I am desperate. Cherine is falling apart. I have to be with her.”</p>
<p>“Where will my body be?”</p>
<p>“At the clinic. Maria and Kosta will look after you. My healer will keep a check on it.”</p>
<p>“We better go then.”</p>
<p>“Don’t you have any business things to arrange first? I have no idea how many days this could take.”</p>
<p>“Since this story started with the attacker, I arranged that the business run without me until I can return. Forget the business Robert, let’s go!”</p>
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<p>If he’d had his body with, I think he would have peed in his pants, he was almost gibbering with terror, but he did it. Once I/we were the void, when he saw and felt the beauty of being the void, he became fascinated. I taught him how to control the energies, made him spring the trap a few times until his reactions were fast enough and I left him.</p>
<p>During this day while I had been with Niko, the healers and my protector had been building up my body again. When I opened my eyes I felt hungry, but otherwise fine. The girls helped me to the kitchen, thinking I was back for a short stay. I looked into their minds, searching for anything that would indicate someone is listening in. </p>
<p>“Dominique my love, you are going to be very angry with me. I have placed your brother in terrible danger. I took him to the void and handed over my controls to him. I have come back to stay with my loves.”</p>
<p>“He offered?”</p>
<p>“Well, I begged him.”</p>
<p>“It is his decision then. I will not blame you Roberto, you cannot do everything yourself. Every time something bad happens, you insist that only you must be the one in danger. That is wrong. It is killing all of us, especially Cherine.”</p>
<p>“That is why I came back. I can feel how all of you feel and I know it is wrong of me, but I need to be alone with Cherine. Can you forg...”</p>
<p>Cherine’s voice cut in, “I do not want them to go! Why do you always think you have all the answers and never ask?”</p>
<p>I bowed my head. “I am desperate, I cannot think straight anymore. I feel I am losing you and that is all that matters to me. I will do whatever you want or say my love.” She burst into tears. I did not even know if I should hold her.</p>
<p>“You are not losing me - I lost you!! You left me long ago. You have always known I need to be with you when you are in danger, but now you leave and I cannot follow, I have failed and you will die one day and I will not be there with you.”</p>
<p>“You took a sliver of me in you, as I took one of you. You have been muting yourself since then. Kill the dampening my love - come into my mind. Search through all that I am, have been. Tell me when it was I left you, when did you stop being the reason I exist.”</p>
<p>She shook her head, refusing. I grabbed her shoulders and shook her, she looked up at me. “<i>Do it now!!!</i>”</p>
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<p><h3><center>915</center></h3></p>
<p>When she returned she did not speak. Her little body curled up on itself and she only shook violently. My heart breaking I held her tightly and going to bed lay down with her in my arms. Slowly the shaking lessened and she wept. This crying was a catharsis and I rejoiced in it. When she slept I lay treasuring the sound of her heartbeat, her soft warm breath and the colours of her mind as she swirled through a dreamless sleep. When she awoke, she felt my arms around her and first searched my mind to be sure it is I who hold her.</p>
<p>“You Cherine Teller, first wife of Robert Teller, mother of my child, heart of my love, the cornerstone that makes it possible for me to love the rest of our family, you are my lion cub, my fierce warrior and protector. I need all of you, not just a part, for me to be able to be who I am. If you give up on me, no longer trust or have total faith in me, I am nothing, just a sad lover of little girls. A joke.”</p>
<p>“I never gave up on you Robert, I thought you gave up on me.”</p>
<p>“In that case you did give up on me. You no longer had faith in my love and need for you - as you are, not some vapid (ανιαρό) version of yourself.”</p>
<p>She stayed silent a while. “I did, didn’t I? Oh Robert, I’m so sorry.”</p>
<p>“A lot of it was my fault. As they say, it takes two to tango. I’m sorry love, my obsession to see that no harm comes to any of you has made me forget what our true relationship is.”</p>
<p>“Robert, this did not start now with...”</p>
<p>“I know, not from now…from the Sparkler war, when I insisted on almost fighting it alone, of bringing my body to the point it could not survive. I have been foolish for a long time.”</p>
<p>“I’ll fight anything for you Robert - but I cannot fight you.”</p>
<p>“You never will have to my love - never again. I came too close to losing you.”</p>
<p>We talked and talked and cleared the air and I felt her coming back to me, my old Cherine returning. But I knew there is still a part of her that fears to believe, that her spirit is not strong yet. She felt the tears inside me.</p>
<p>“I think this was what she meant. That black woman. I was trying to see too deeply within you, forgetting to look also at who and what you are. I was only looking at the part I feared losing.”</p>
<p>“Our Wendy has also turned into a wise woman. She said to me ‘<i>when you are losing what you love best in the one you love, that is the worst. The person still is there, but what you love so dearly, that is gone.</i>’ I thought she meant I was losing what I love, but she was telling me about you, what you were losing. I was too stupid to see it.”</p>
<p>She sat up, her face troubled. “Are you sure Niko can handle it? I will not mind if you must return there. Not now.”</p>
<p>“He has to. We have to get rid of everybody. This attacker of ours, I think he is a coward Cherine. He needs to see he has the upper hand or else he will not come. He needs to feel he is superior.”</p>
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<p>She got up and as I started to also raise myself she put her hand to my chest, stopping me. She stopped a moment in the bathroom and came out with her hair tidied and her face washed. She did not smile at me, just stared a moment and walked to the door.</p>
<p>“Pappou, please take Socrati and Angelo with you, my mother and your daughters must also go with you to our clinic. You must help doctor Maria to watch over Niko. He has taken Robert’s place in the void. The rest of you, please go home, but be ready to jump here soon as you are called. Even as you arrive, first thing is you use the blocking gift of Angelo. Do not give him even a split second. Thank you for staying with us, for showing so much love. Dommi?” Dommi came to her, staring over her shoulders at me.</p>
<p>“Dommi, you must take all the others and go to stay with Natalie, Rose and Themi. We will call you.”</p>
<p>I’m damned if Dommi didn’t just nod her agreement. They all left.</p>
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<p><h3><center>916</center></h3></p>
<p>“It feels strange Robert, just the two of us in this home. It is not ours you know. It is only a home when all my wives are here with us.”</p>
<p>“Cherine, I have to go, otherwise he cannot come. I will be with you in your mind. Will you be alright?”</p>
<p>“Of course!! Are you sending Niko back?”</p>
<p>“Not yet. If we can spring the trap it may be good that he stays to control it while I find where his body is. I am glad you will not be with, my baby, it will be sickening. I will have to torture his soul until he breaks. Will you help me bear it afterwards, will you share it with me?”</p>
<p>She threw herself into my arms crying. “Oh Robert!”</p>
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<p>Niko was pleased to have me join him. I sent him back to his body, to feed it and so on. He promised to return soon as he could. It may have been hours or a day, in the void it could not be felt. Soon as he returned I brought him back in. During this time, I kept a close watch on Cherine through the protector and had the protector maintain a shield of itself around her.</p>
<p>I was getting worried. My body was deteriorating fast, I would have to return soon. He came. He did not stay in the void long enough for us to spring the trap. I gave Cherine a quick warning.</p>
<p>“You are back. I knew you would come.”</p>
<p>“Why? Why stay with dying body, you fear me, why stay?”</p>
<p>“A bargain. I cannot save Robert, he has gone to the void and our World is destroyed. We have lost. I stayed to make a bargain with you. I know you want to kill me. I will not fight you if you promise to leave the other girls alone. Without Robert and me they are without any power. They will never be a threat to you.”</p>
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<p>My healer showed me his cord. I left Niko to do his job and followed the cord. I had a suspicion I would find myself in the States. I found myself in Athens. At the mental asylum!</p>
<p>I hovered over the body. It was in a straightjacket, drugged. I now knew what had happened. This was the mind I had visited when Cherine wanted to help them join us. I looked for his trap, how was he planning to keep me here?</p>
<p>I watched, I sent my healer in, nothing showed up. An hour passed but I saw nothing. I was about to leave, things were becoming bad for Cherine, I could not delay any longer. The door opened and someone, without any interest in the patient, made a quick injection and left. I sent the healer back in. What it told me was very enlightening.</p>
<p>This explained a lot. He is kept on continuous medication. His body is breaking down from being drugged all the time. When drugged he cannot escape from his body. It explains why he took so long to come back. He must have had to wait for a time when an injection was delayed. </p>
<p>Back in the void I told Cherine what I’d learnt. She shared with me that the fight between her and him had not let up for a second.</p>
<p>His answer to her had been, “I agree.”</p>
<p>“Saying you agree is not enough. You must allow me to see in your mind, to know for certain you are speaking the truth.”</p>
<p>He lashed out with a lightning bolt. It bounced off her. He unleashed a torrent of powers against her. Mostly trying to burn or cut her to pieces. At first she sat through it with a false smile, trying to show him she was not afraid of him. Soon her smile was no longer false, the protector was proving more than capable of handling him. He finally, in desperation, tried to physically assault her. He could not reach her. When he paused, she would wait until she felt he was ready to flee and she would taunt him again about his inability to hurt a little girl, his sexual inability, anything to get him into a wild frenzy again.</p>
<p>Soon as she knew I was back with Niko she gave the word, calling to all.</p>
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<p>As they appeared, my body and his mind were hit by all of them placing their blocks. She made them all move out immediately as my protector could not protect all. Not that it was any longer a problem.</p>
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<p><i>*Niko, I think we must change our plans. Instead of going into his body to fight his mind, why not go into his mind while he is within my body. The battlefield is then where I am stronger. This way I can also bring help with me.*</i></p>
<p><i>*You want me to come in with you? I will not know what to do!*</i></p>
<p><i>*No. You stay on watch here. We must have a backup in case he escapes us there. I will take Dommi and Cherine with me. Maybe Wendy later.*</i></p>
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<p><i>*What is your name?*</i> I repeated it endlessly until his panic subsided. He reminded me of a wolf that has had it’s leg caught in a trap. He would gnaw it off to escape if he could.</p>
<p><i>*Who are you?*</i> </p>
<p><i>*You are in my body and you ask who I am? Thanks for paying us a visit.*</i> </p>
<p>That set him off again. My healer was having to use all the help it could to repair the damage he was causing from his terror and need to escape. I waited till he tired.</p>
<p><i>*I know you have suffered. I have seen your body in a straightjacket. I have seen them injecting you.*</i> Again I repeated myself, in English and Greek, until the message got through. </p>
<p>Hours went by and I did not feel we were making any headway. All he was capable of doing was lashing out. There was no reasoning, hardly anything more than a low animal cunning. I was sickened that something like this could have been created by the very people who had sworn to protect and help the sick. I was guessing only, but I had a hunch I was right. This helped me to be patient. </p>
<p>He could not understand why he could not use his powers, he knew the body was not drugged. Patiently I explained that his powers are the powers of a little child compared to mine. I tried to make him understand he is not under attack, that we want to help him. None of my messages made any impression on him, however many times they were repeated.</p>
<p>I took Sam with me to the void, sent Niko back after training her and returned, using her body. I changed it to resemble mine, though I left it, under the clothes, female. I am beginning to suspect that the more changes we make each time, the bigger the toll on our bodies. </p>
<p>I sat for hours opposite him, careful never to show any anger or impatience. I got Cherine to stand by me and asked him whether he wants his powers back again. It was strange for me, I hate to think of what it was like for Cherine, to see the cunning in my eyes as he agreed. </p>
<p>We suspended the blocking. He lashed out with everything he had. It did not take long for his power to fizzle out as he was blocked from drawing more power into him.</p>
<p>“Why have you stopped? Not that it makes any difference to me, you cannot hurt us. The first time I was caught by surprise, that is why you managed to hurt me. Never again.”</p>
<p>“I kill you.”</p>
<p>“Afraid not old chap. Why is it you speak English instead of Greek?”</p>
<p>“I kill you.”</p>
<p>“I need to give you a name since you will not tell us yours. In an hour or two I will know your real name, I’ll find out from the asylum.”</p>
<p>“I kill you. Fuck you.”</p>
<p>“I’m going to call you Henry. Henry, your body, actually mine, needs to eat, go to the toilet, maybe have a shower. Would you like to feel how it is to do all that? My friends have made some lovely chicken soup with rice. Nice home made food to strengthen you. Go to the bathroom and we will wait here for you. Have a shower while you are there.”</p>
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<p>He kept on glaring at me, muttering about killing me as he walked to the bathroom. I called to the girls to make my razor disappear before he gets there. More than half an hour later he had not come out. I went to the door, but heard no sounds from inside. The healer confirmed he is well and still there. I told the others to go over to Alki or go home. We will call them if they are needed. He stayed over an hour and a half in the bathroom.</p>
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<p>As the door opened, he lashed out again, but his bolt was barely more than a faint light.</p>
<p>“Henry, you have used up all your energy and the energy my body has. If you carry on, my body will die and you will be forced back to your own body. I could tell them to never be late with your injection again. I would prefer not to though. Come and eat. Afterwards we can talk. Maybe I can help you.”</p>
<p><i>*Robert. You are not getting through to him.* *I am love. He just does not believe me. Is Savva getting us the information I asked for?* *It is night Robert. We have to wait for tomorrow morning.*</i></p>
<p>“Henry, how long has it been since you saw grass and trees and flowers? You want to see some after you eat?” He glared at me, but he did not mutter. I felt it was a small victory.</p>
<p>He could not feed himself. He tilted the plate to his mouth, his hands shaking violently, and it spilt all over him. He did not seem to notice, intent only on the taste of what is going into him. He had sat on the floor at the opposite side of the kitchen. I asked him if he wants more and he threw the plate at me. I ignored the shattered soup plate, filled a mug for him, put it close to him and withdrew. For the next refill he placed the mug where I had. That proved to me that he is capable of learning. I talked to Cherine, for his benefit.</p>
<p>“I have a feeling he has never known what it is like to be loved. No wonder he is full of hate. Can you imagine never seeing flowers, or the sea, never feeling the wind on your cheeks? He has missed so much!! Do you know why, love?”</p>
<p>“Because they locked him up?”</p>
<p>“Yes, but why did they lock him up? Because he has gifts. I think his family did not love him. They feared him and got rid of him, maybe they had no way to control him and they had to. I don’t know. What a waste love. To have such marvellous gifts, what amazing potential was sacrificed out of fear and ignorance! He is someone very special.” I saw her lips twitch as I said that. “Think how wonderful it would be to have him as a friend. He could learn so much from us and we could learn from him. If only he would stop hating us and give us a chance to show him what good friends we can be. You know what I think we should do?”</p>
<p>“What?”</p>
<p>“I think we should let him keep my body while we get his own body away from the asylum. Bring it here and make it strong and handsome for him. Then he will not need to stay in my weak and sick body anymore.”</p>
<p>“You cannot.”</p>
<p>“I cannot do what Henry?”</p>
<p>“Get me out.”</p>
<p>“Henry, if Robert says he will do something then you can bet your life he can do it. Think, not only was he able to stop you from hurting me without him being here, he was also able to find out who you are, where your body is.”</p>
<p>“You were hoping I would find your body and go into it, then the drugs would keep me in there until your body died. Yes, I know, it is dying already. Henry, do not worry, your body will not die. I will make it well and strong for you.”</p>
<p>“Not get me out.”</p>
<p>“Oh, you mean I will not get you out of my body?”</p>
<p>“Not get me out. I kill you.”</p>
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<p>“This is nonsense Henry. The first time you attacked us you could talk properly, now you act as if you can’t. Speak clearly, say what you want to say - if I disagree with you I will tell you.”</p>
<p>“Fuck you!! And fuck your little bitch too.”</p>
<p>“That is much better. Well done Henry. Just for that, for being a good boy I’m going to give you a piece of chocolate. Do you remember chocolate? I love it.”</p>
<p>I got a slab, broke off a small piece and tossed it to him. He watched as I broke another piece and ate it. He chewed his. Without expression he demanded, “More.”</p>
<p>“Only when I say so Henry. You talk to me, tell me interesting things and I will give you more.”</p>
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<p>This went on for the rest of the night. I saw he needed sleep, at least my body did, but he would not sleep. I had to use the healer to force him to sleep. I got a pillow and put it under his head and covered him with a blanket. I left him on the floor and took Cherine by the arm.</p>
<p>“It is time for you to sleep love. Sam must also return. I will come back again soon.”</p>
<p>“Are you crazy? I can’t go to sleep alone with him in the house!!”</p>
<p>“The healer has paralysed his arms and legs. He cannot hurt you. All external energy is blocked off by the void and the protector. Anyway, I know you. It is not out of fear. You are just hoping to get me to make love to you with Sam’s body. I have kept the main parts female so it would not be of much use to you.”</p>
<p>“You didn’t make a penis!!”</p>
<p>“Nope. I didn’t need it to fight him.” She burst into giggles at the picture of me fighting him with my penis.</p>
<p>“Oh Robert, I have to see! Please!!”</p>
<p>“Only if you promise me that you will never tease Sam. You can tease me - but not her.”</p>
<p>“I promise.”</p>
<p>Back in our bedroom she watched as I undressed. She got into a fit of hysterics so I clowned around until the laughing was hurting her. I could have cried seeing my love being so childishly happy. I changed my appearance back to what Sam is used to and lay down, sending Sam back.</p>
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<p>I sent a part of myself out to meet Solomon and Ordinx. I brought them up to date. It called for a lot of explaining about Earth and our still backward methods of treating the sick. I promised to let them know how it ends.</p>
<p><i>*The mother of Cherine was right. I let my anger blind me. He hurt my love, but this is a far better way. Maybe we can help him to learn what love is.*</i></p>
<p><i>*We will need to talk more about this thing you call love.*</i></p>
<p><i>*I now have a job to do and I need your advice again. It all has to do with the void and the energy here, you are the experts, I ask to learn from you.*</i></p>
<p><i>*You who has conquered the void, made all its power a part of you call us the experts?*</i></p>
<p><i>*I am a child who holds a powerful weapon. I fear my ignorance may be the cause of more damage. So I ask. Solomon, when our World shattered, imploded into me, I held every mote of that energy. Wherever it went through the Universe, I still hold it. I would like to try and reverse the implosion, bring back our World.*</i></p>
<p><i>*If you do not have the correct controls over it you could destroy us and the Worlds of Ordinx. You were wise to ask. Robert, I suggest you create a new World.*</i></p>
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<p><i>*That was my intention. Meli, our creator of worlds, she grieves. She created a new life form on our World. They are an intelligent race. If I could bring them back I would save her a lot of pain. Solomon, is there anything preventing me from reversing the implosion at a location far from all energy forms of life. At worst I may fail. If I succeed, then we need to find a way to bring it back here.*</i></p>
<p><i>*As ever Robert, you wish to do the impossible. The plan you told us of, the worlds your Meli would create for all the races we have wronged. That is a dream, but a dream worth waiting for, even for one such world. It would seem the longer we wait and watch you, the more you confuse us. This is also good for you are awakening our Thinkers again.*</i></p>
<p>There was only a tinge of bitterness in my ‘voice’ as I answered, <i>*I’m glad to hear I am doing somebody some good.*</i></p>
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<p>I gathered myself and searched for an area where no prickling of life energy forms irritated me. In my mind I replayed all that happened to me as the void and then willing it, made the reverse come about. I moved the centre of my awareness to the point where the energies were coalescing. I sent a part of myself into the maelstrom, hoping the presence of my soul would help bring back order out of chaos. It was like watching a film in reverse as the miracle of our Kaleidoscope World snapped back into existence, even to the point of our emerald isle.</p>
<p>I recalled an article I had read in some technical magazine about how space can be warped. I imagined the void as some monstrous creature with a skin. </p>
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<p>Point “A” is where we usually come to dance, where the Sparklers are and where our World should be. I had brought back the World at a distant point. Roughly I decided point “B” was half the distance there. I folded in my skin until the points where the folds are touching and moved the World past the fold - and repeated the exercise a number of times. Now our World should be ‘close’. It will still take time to bring it to its original space, but not the vast amount of time I would have needed otherwise. I left the void and entered our World.</p>
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<p><i><b>I</b></i> am surprised the Robert part has come on its own. It explains it wants questions answered. <i><b>I</b></i> should have known it only came to make demands. It asked why <i><b>I</b></i> allowed the shadow entity to enter the World. <i><b>I</b></i> had made no ruling that <i><b>I</b></i> was not to. It demanded <i><b>I</b></i> do not allow any such invasion again and claimed the parts are to have exclusive say in which entity may enter. <i><b>I</b></i> explained patiently that in this World, the <i><b>I</b></i> has total control, since <i><b>I</b></i> am the sum of all the parts, no one part may order the <i><b>I</b></i>. It showed what it had done and how it had brought me back. It gave me an ultimatum; either <i><b>I</b></i> accept orders from it or else it implodes me again and creates a new World. <i><b>I</b></i> explained it cannot. Soon as it creates a World, then it is <i><b>I</b></i> who will be in command. It cannot create a new <i><b>I</b></i>. It left in a fury.</p>
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<p><i>*I have a suspicion friend Robert that it was the same for us. Over time we have melded closer and there are no further individual clashes.*</i></p>
<p><i>*That explains a lot about you Ordinx. By forgetting your individuality, you lost your youth as a race, leaving you with no drive to do anything, not even to learn. Just the pointless existence of the old who have turned in upon themselves.*</i></p>
<p><i>*Each life form has a time of youth, of learning. There must also be a time of old age, of reflection.*</i></p>
<p><i>*Not correct. The reflections of the aged are only of use if those reflections are to be passed on to the young, to help increase their wisdom and knowledge. Your way, the acceptance of domination by your <i><b>I</b></i> has led to a sterile ending for you.*</i></p>
<p><i>*Harsh words Robert. Perhaps you speak with the anger of your argument?*</i></p>
<p><i>*Thank you Ordinx for not taking offence. I would ask you this. If your Worlds have existed for as long as you can recall; what new knowledge has been gained by your race in that time? You have mindlessly fled the Sparklers - why were there no adventurous personalities on your Worlds to try and solve the threat? Why no efforts to communicate? By now you should have been masters of the place we call the void. How is it a young upstart (τυχάρπαστος) like me comes to the void and within a blink of the eye, a tiny fraction of time, has total control over the future of every single entity throughout the Universe? Let me show you.*</i></p><br>
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<h6>Αλέξανδρος Ζήνον Ευσταθίου<br></h6>(Alexander Zenon Eustace)<br>
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