The wedding was wonderful, but now we have less than a month to think of a way to celebrate Cherine's birthday. Robbie is starting to listen in to us as he’s hoping we’ll come up with something special.
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Wendy found the song and Robbie has adopted it, humming it to Candy whenever he wants her to come to his lap. We’ve shared most of your dreams of us with everyone in Freddie, including Hettie and her family and our close friends from Earth. They are all convinced your soul is trying to reach out to us and that is why you are having the dreams. We pointed out to them that, as with your Boxee story, your dreams seem to have a number of warnings or new ideas for us. The Muyzith find your dreams very disturbing, they do not have imaginative dreams, so yours feel very alien to them. Their dreams tend to be more like abstract works of art reflecting pure emotions as they need to experience them.
Hettie came to the house this morning to advise us of a new development and ask Robbie for a decision. Apparently the United Nations members are secretly discussing the idea of inviting us to join them with a seat on the Security Council. Listening to her it almost made me nostalgic for the days when we first announced our existence and they wanted to arrest us.
“What about the Ipohin and Campbell and his group?”
“As far as I know, neither of them have been accepted as nations with sovereignty over their people.”
“They will demand they be invited Hettie.” Robbie glanced at me, but I felt he was dealing with it well enough on his own so I only gave him a nod. “Please see to it that they are made aware of the potential problems before they make any official announcements.”
I grinned at Hettie. “I feel sorry for you.” She sat back as she raised her eyebrow. “Obviously the Cherinians in general cannot join, it would have to be the Terran Cherinians of this reality. That means you would have to take over as our local leader and waste centuries in negotiations while we travel the universe.” Some of the girls giggled nervously, watching for any hurt. They and I were very surprised to sense an enormous swelling of amusement in her - actually a better word would be mirth.
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Her grin was so wide she could barely speak. “I was coming to that. I understand a number of countries, led by China, France and Russia, are suggesting the U.N. ask the Cherinians, in other words, Robert, that you be appointed as our representative on the council.”
For a moment I panicked and then I grinned at her. “I presume you will make it clear to them that as I do tend to grab the opportunity every now and then to appoint myself acting leader of all Cherinians and I feel I have assumed responsibility for the world of Efineh, I cannot possibly accept. If they still insist, hint that it might not be such a good idea, as it would mean that I will no longer qualify to take over as Cherinian acting leader when needed and Robbie might be forced to appoint the imps.” After that the comments degenerated almost into slapstick comedy.
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While we beat our brains trying to think of something unique for Cherine's birthday, the Princess of Monte Carlo was the first to ask to host Cherine's official birthday. We liked the idea so we agreed. As you should recall, her official birthday is the first Friday after her real birthday, which this year is four days later.
We announced what we intend doing and suddenly all the realities have gone crazy, everyone wanting to come with! Just the scientists from every species must total over twenty million. Elpida suggested we rope in RT and his Teller family and Robbie immediately asked Vincent to do so. Even so we cannot carry a fraction of those who are dying to come with.
RT arrived and the world went bonkers when they heard why he has come and even more people are asking to come with. Here is a first for you Arthur. Earth’s first fully AI computer asked to come with!
Another Freddie appeared, then another and another. We jumped to the top of Mt Olympus to gaze at the amazing scene of forty seven Freddie’s and RT’s strung like jewels around our planet. It was awesome!
Everyone has been told to bring their own food machines and Robbie (all Roberts) created bins with soil, mulch etc for people to use to fill their food machines. We even had to bring stores from various Earths. Not counting Wirms and Sparklers, this is the first long trip ever we are taking with us over a billion people. The Freddies, totalling twenty five out of the forty seven, have all the future Inguel and Unation spaceships, so I guess they will get tired of taking the trip so many times. I mentioned my thought to Ordinx and Ashiir was stunned by my obtuseness. She explained that each of their future copies will be conducting different tests which means they’ll have twenty five times the data they could have collected.
The scientists may not be bored, but I bet I will be. It means I will spend about three years and two months of my life on this trip. I think I’ll let ‘each’ Samantha write about the trip. Hmm, if I’d thought of it from before I could have arranged for the other ‘Samanthas’ to be my doppelgangers while I took a nice holiday on my own at some popular beach. Okay, I’ll bite. Let’s pretend you did that, how would it work? Wouldn’t you have to be aware of each of the doppelgangers to keep them ‘active’? I don’t think you’d have such a nice holiday. That must be the Claudia in you - spoilsport!
Another first. Robbie decided that when we leave we’ll go to a position above the center of our galaxy, then we’ll jump to another reality to return there forty seven days before Cherine's birthday. We’ll hop one galaxy per day so that everyone gets enough time to collect data. A special team will keep a record to create a map for everyone. All Freddie’s and RT’s will have platforms ready to be launched into normal space filled with cameras and other instruments. Our return will be one folding/unfolding so that we are back home on the day after Cherine's birthday (Dommi’s idea).
I hope you enjoy reading this story of fantasy, adventure and love - and should some of it be true for our reality, I hope you will love our Cherine.
Αλέξανδρος Ζήνον Ευσταθίου
(Alexander Zenon Eustace)- posted: 23rd Jun, 2020
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