Think Reality

Antoine and Lyra 

 Below on this page is Chapter 15 of both the science fiction story "The Hierozyme Intervention" and also the story "That Kind of Think". The events of the first 14 chapters of "The Hierozyme Intervention" take place in the Reality that precedes the Final Reality, the Reality of "That Kind of Think". 

Think Reality. Antoine is a character in "That Kind of Think" who has lived his entire life at Litheblanc. Antoine has investigated the genetics of human longevity in an attempt to understand the long lives with little aging of the older residents of Litheblanc, including his parents and grandparents. 

The Pact. There are analogues of Tyhry and Marda in both the Hierozyme Reality and the Final Reality. Manny the bumpha transfers a copy of the Tyhry from the Hierozyme Reality into the Final Reality where she meets Antoine. Their descendants will become a human variant that is designed and crafted by Manny: the tryp'At. The tryp'At will fulfill the terms of the Trysta-Grean Pact and spread through the galaxy,

Chapter 15 - Antoine and Lyra 

The Hierozyme Intervention (Ch. 1)(Ch. 2)(Ch. 3)(Ch. 4)(Ch. 5)(Ch. 6)(Ch. 7)(Ch. 8)(Ch. 9)(Ch. 10)(Ch. 11)(Ch. 12)(Ch. 13)(Ch. 14)    

That Kind of Think - (Chapter 1)(Ch. 2)(Ch. 3)(Ch. 4)(Ch. 5)(Ch. 6)(Ch. 7)(Ch. 8)(Ch. 9)(Ch. 10)(Ch. 11)(Ch. 12)(Ch. 13)(Ch. 14)

One moment Tyhry was on the beach just before dawn, helping Carly collect water samples containing marine bacteria, the next moment she was inside a dimly-lit room that seemed to be a small private library. Tyhry straightened up and looked at the book shelves that were right in front of her. One was labeled 'Anglaise' and the one below was labeled 'Français'. Tyhry could see that the shelves held science fiction novels. She pulled down a copy of "The Casanay Intervention", looked at the cover, and then began to try to read the text of the story, but it was too dark in the room.

Tyhry was puzzled by her seemingly instantaneous shift from Hawaii to France and fascinated by the book she now held in her hands and she did not notice when Élodie entered the library. Élodie called out, "Lights," and saw Tyhry's back across the room, half covered by the long black hair that flowed down from the girl's head. Then Tyhry turned and stared at Élodie. Élodie thought she was seeing Marda and she asked, "Pourquoi te caches-tu dans l’obscurité?" It registered in Élodie's mind that Marda was away at college, but that thought was almost hidden by another: why is Marda naked?

Tyhry told Élodie, "You better speak English."

Marda did not sound like Marda. She looks like Marda! Élodie moved closer and asked, "Marda?" 

Tyhry shook her head and said, "Tyhry." She asked, "Who are you? Where are we?" She waved the novel she was holding, "How did I get here? What is going on?" 

 Élodie reached out and touched Tyhry's beautiful long hair and finally Tyhry noticed that she had dark hair. "Just like when..." Tyhry was thinking about the years when she had lived disguised as Marda. But before going to Hawaii, Marda had used her body-sculpting zeptites to shift Tyhry back to her own original bodily form. Tyhry asked herself: Now what?

"You look like Marda, but..." Élodie asked, "You don't know me?"

"I don't know you, unless this is a trick. Have you been transformed as I was?"

"Transformed?"

Tyhry explained, "Zeptites. I... I'm Tyhry, but re-shaped to look like Marda."

 Élodie turned, walked away and sat down in a chair. "I'll try to answer your questions, but I have my own. I'm Élodie Gendron... you are holding one of my novels. We are at Litheblanc... Tyhry and Marda grew up here... the Tyhry who is my daughter."

Tyhry sat down in the only other chair that was there in the library. Tyhry read the author's name, Élodie Gendron, off the cover of the novel. She held up the novel. "You do know Casanay."

"I invented Casanay. I invented Tyhry as a character for my science fiction stories set at Casanay, but then when my daughter was born, I named her 'Tyhry'."

 Tyhry shook her head. "No... that is all wrong. I grew up at Casanay. My mother is Zeta Gohrlay. I've never heard of Litheblanc, or you... Élodie..."

Élodie suggested, "You are from another Reality."

Tyhry laughed, "My father never wrote about a Reality in which I was born in France."

 Élodie asked, "Are you from Arizona?"

"Casanay is in Arizona. That's my home."

 Now Élodie laughed. "Either you are a nutty fan who dressed up like Marda or you are from a past Reality."

Tyhry asked herself: why would Manny send me to a future Reality? 

Élodie took out her phone and called Marda. Marda opened the voice and video connection and asked, "Élodie?" 

Élodie only saw a plain white wall behind Marda. She asked, "Where are you?"

"Studying in the library."

"Okay. Sorry to bother you. When do you plan to return to Litheblanc?"

"Tyhry and I will be back at the end of the term." Marda could see that Élodie was inside the little library at Litheblanc. "I don't have our exam schedules yet, so I can't give you a date." Marda got out of her chair, stretched her legs and opened the door of her study room. She peered out at the stacks.

"Okay. Let me know when you know more." Élodie ended her call. She put her phone back in her pocked. Élodie told Tyhry, "You are not my Marda... and not my Tyhry."

"I am Tyhry. I lived for a couple of years using the physical form of Marda. During that time, Marda... my Marda, lived at Casanay." Tyhry opened the novel. "The real Casanay, not a fictional one in a novel. My father always hid the location of our home from fans."

 Élodie giggled. "Let me guess. Your father is Eddy Watson."

Marda Onway (left) at Casanay.

Tyhry nodded. "I'm Tyhry Watson."

 "Well, Tyhry, that just won't do. You need a new name, something different than my daughter's name."

"But it is my name!"

"When in Rome..."  Élodie got up and took Tyhry's hand and led her out of the library. "I can't concentrate while looking at your genitals." Élodie led Tyhry to Marda's suite and dressed Tyhry in Marda's clothing. Élodie then stood looking at Tyhry with her hands on her hips. "Your new name... how about Mélusine?"

Tyhry adjusted her skirt, which was itchy. Tyhry wondered where Marda kept her underwear. "Mélusine? No. You can call me Lyra, I like that name."

Élodie nodded and put an arm around Tyhry's waist. "Very well, Lyra." Élodie picked up the copy of "The Casanay Intervention" and handed it back to Tyhry. Élodie guided Tyhry out of Marda's room and back to the hallway.

Tyhry asked, "How old is your Tyhry?"

"Seventeen."

"You are not old enough to have a seventeen year old daughter."

Élodie laughed. "I have good genes. I stopped aging at twenty five. That's why I hide here at Litheblanc." Élodie guided Tyhry into the master bedroom suite and to the bedroom where Zach was in bed, reading. Élodie told her husband, "This is Lyra."

After giving Tyhry a close visual inspection, Zach asked, "Marda?"

Élodie sat on the bed close to Zach. "This is not Marda. I think she is a girl from a past Reality, made to look like Marda."

Zach rubbed his forehead. "A trick..."

Tyhry told Zach, "I was in Hawaii, on a beach. I still have the black lava sand between my toes. Then I arrived here. You call this old house 'Litheblac'?"

Zach nodded and told Tyhry, "Élodie and I have lived here for half a century."

Élodie quickly told her husband what she had learned from Tyhry, then told him. "I think Lyra must be from the previous Reality."

Zach nodded. Manny the bumpha could have arranged for Élodie to receive information about a past Reality. Zach asked Tyhry, "How did you get here from Hawaii?"

"It must have been one of Manny's tricks."

"Manny the bumpha?"

Tyhry shrugged. "My father sometimes wrote about shifting people such as Ekcolir to Earth of another Reality... I never thought it might happen to me."

Élodie mused and told Zach, "Eddy Watson plays a role like mine in Lyra's Reality." She told Tyhry, "I've written stories in which Ek'col or Kac'hin have shifted between Realities. I write stories about a fictional Tyhry who is tryp'At. Lyra, if you are tryp'At then maybe..."

 Tyhry said, "In my father's stories there are telepathic tryp'At. I can telepathically link to Marda. Marda and I share the same unusual NOTCH2NL gene."

 

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