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Zeta (disguised as Rylla) and
Tyhry (disguised as Marda) shortly
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Below on this page is Chapter 12 of the science fiction story "
The Hierozyme Intervention". After introducing Ada and Tynyo in
Chapter 10, and showing how Ada will fit into Casanay (see
Chapter 11) the setting for "The Hierozyme
Intervention" is now shifted ahead to six months after the events of the
first 11 Chapters. Marda has survived her first Arizona summer and is
now getting her first opportunity to go downhill skiing and watch snow pile up on the
inflatable domes around Casanay that protect Zeta's gardens during the
winter. Eddy remains unaware that the two women he believes are his wife
and daughter are actually Systolina and Marda in disguise.
With most of the senior scientists of the Henrito Research Institute now having been hired, Ranch0
Henrito has become a hub for planning a multi-decade program of scientific study of artificial life with the goal of climate change mitigation. Zeta, Anthony and Tyhry now live on the top floor of Ranch0 Henrito from where they
have a good view of the nearby site where the Ranch1 building is being constructed.
Having dropped out of the nearby public school, Marda is being home schooled by Sytolina. For
months, while living at Casanay and pretending to be Tyhry, Marda has been secretly developing her zeptite programming skills and focusing her attention on her frustrated search for how to access Eddy's hidden Reality Viewer. At every
opportunity, Tyhry, pretending to be Marda, visits Casanay and spends
time discussing the fan-fiction writing project that is now an integral
part of Eddy's website. Unable to believe in the existence of space aliens, but knowing that she has the ability to telepathically communicate with Marda, Tyhry begins to invent her own unique "explanation" for her telepathic ability.
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Ada, Tyhry (disguised as Marda) and
Zeta (disguised as Rylla). Image by Leonardo. |
Marda has been telepathically studying Eddy's mind
pattern and she is convinced that Eddy is
tryp'At for four reasons: 1) in collaboration with Ada, she has had both Tyhry's and Eddy's genomes sequenced and found the same unusual genes (such as a specific unusual NOTCH2NLC variant) that that are in her own genome, 2)
Ylyndra had previously told Marda that Eddy is tryp'At, 3) in his science fiction stories, Eddy describes himself as a tryp'At who has had his telepathic abilities "burned out" by his replicoid copy, and 4) Marda believes that under optimal conditions (when her oxypathin and klytykynyn receptors are activated) she can now telepathically sense the fringes of
Eddy's mind, which she believes is a damaged tryp'At telepathic mind pattern.
Tyhry is still unable to believe in the existence of
space aliens, but over the past six months as her telepathic abilities have been refined, she is
now occasionally receiving information from the future via the Sedron Time Stream.
Her visions of the future include images of Hawaii and Tyhry is certain
that in just two years she will be living in Hawaii.
Tim's mother (Naseh) has long worked at the Q Diner and that is why Anthony had so carefully watched the Q Diner for over a decade. The Ek'col were designed to NOT be intra-fertile, they only efficiently reproduce with the assistance of others such as the tryp'At who can use their blastipositor to transfer blastocysts into the uterus of an Ek'col like Naseh. Tynyo has become quite close with Naseh. Naseh, Tyhyo and Tim frequently visit Casanay, particularly for the Friday movie nights. Ada continues to be Marda's source of oxypathin and Tim is Marda's source of klytykynyn. Marda has hired a company to isolate and identify the structures of oxypathin and klytykynyn.
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Systolina (disguised as Zeta), Marda (disguised
as Tyhry) and Ada. Image by Leonardo. |
Ada has for six months worked at Casanay, but she will soon begin her new job inside Ranch1 Henrito. During the last weekend before Ada ends her employment at Casanay, Marda wants to try one last "trick" to make use of Ada to help her access the Reality Viewer.
When Tynyo first noticed Naseh at the Q diner, they started talking sports. Naseh is like Ada, with erectile breasts that produce an oxypathin-rich secretion. Tyhyo obtained Naseh's DNA sample from her milk and Ada sequenced Naseh's genome, showing that she has only one copy of the special NOTCH2NLB gene variant that is present twice in the genomes of both Ada and Tynyo, apparently explaining the mystery of why Naseh has no telepathic ability. Tim completely lacks the special NOTCH2NLB gene variant, but has other Ek'col gene patterns, including the Ek'col klytykykyn gene which explains why he has klytykykyn in his semen. During the last weekend of Ada's employment at Casanay, a trip to Phoenix begins with the plan of Tynyo and Naseh to attend a basketball game but those plans have been expanded to include ski equipment shopping by Eddy and Marda and Anthony goes along to Phoenix (Anthony claims to want to see the basketball game, but he is really trying to catch Manny in the act of interacting with what he suspects are Manny's tryp'At and Ek'col agents on Earth).
After the game, Tim takes Marda (disguised as Tyhry) to see a movie (The Rocky Horror Picture Show). While Tim performs with other fans, Marda goes back to the hotel where on the other side of the wall of her room Eddy was on the phone with Zeta. Marda has hired a company to produce oxypathin and klytykykyn petides.
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| Systolina and Ada at Casanay. |
Having ingested huge doses of oxypathin and klytykykyn, Marda is telepathically at the fringe of Eddy's mind while he was having phone sex with Zeta. Marda generates her own orgasm, but still fails to merge into a shared mindspace with Eddy. Marda then calls Tyhry and reports that she has again failed to telepathically link to Eddy.
When that effort to telepathically link to Eddy fails, then Marda asks Ada and Systolina to perform telepathy experiments aimed at combining the power of tryp'At and Ek'col telepathy. During those experiments, Marda discovers that she can't telepathically share anything she knows about zeptites. She uses her zeptite programming ability to link to Eddy's special zeptite endosymbiont module that holds the Reality Viewer access key. Now Marda can use the Reality Viewer any time that Eddy is not already using it.
The Hierozyme Intervention Chapter 12 - Vision of Hawaii (Ch. 1)(Ch. 2)(Ch. 3)(Ch. 4)(Ch. 5)(Ch. 6)(Ch. 7)(Ch. 8)(Ch. 9)(Ch. 10)(Ch. 11)
On his first day in Arizona, Tynyo had met Tim's mother, Naseh, at the Q Diner. Naseh's unusual appearance immediately attracted Tynyo's attention, just as it had long ago attracted the attention of Anthony. Anthony has long maintained some of his femtobot monitoring probes inside Naseh, hoping to someday find her interacting with Manny the bumpha. In November, Tynyo and Naseh made plans to attend a basketball game in Phoenix. Later, with a large winter storm approaching, Eddy, Marda and Anthony decided to also attend the game, with Eddy and Marda also planning to shop for ski equipment while in Phoenix. Attending the basketball game were Eddy, Anthony, Tynyo, Naseh, Tim and Marda (disguised as Tyhry).
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Zeta (disguised as Rylla), Tyhry (disguised
as Marda) and Ada. Image by Leonardo. |
Now, the morning after that basketball game, Tyhry was waiting impatiently for Zeta and Systolina to get out of
the shower. The weekend had started out badly for Tyhry when Marda had decided on Friday to go with Eddy and Anthony to Phoenix on a shopping trip. Friday evening, besides inventing excuses to send a text message to Marda about every five minutes, Tyhry spent her time polishing the latest fan story for posting on Eddy's website.
Initially, Tyhry had completely lacked enthusiasm for the task of pretending to be Marda and pretending to be obsessed with Eddy's science fiction novels. Then Tyhry realized that there might be some truth in Eddy's stories; truths that had nothing to do with space aliens. Now Tyhry was pleased that her management of the new fan-fiction section of Eddy's website gave her a convenient excuse to frequently visit Casanay and spend time with Marda.
Late Friday night, an hour after getting to sleep, Tyhry awoke with a new story idea in her mind. She was certain that this story idea had just come to her in a dream vision from the future. The story idea was tangled up in a complex plot, explaining the evolution of telepathic humans on Earth (such as herself) starting hundreds of thousands of years ago with the Neanderthals and the Denisovans and featured the idea that Neanderthals and Denisovans were part of a telepathic sub-clade of humanity that had not gone extinct; instead, Neanderthals and Denisovans they had evolved into two human variants: the tryp'At and the Ek'col.
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| Systolina and Ada at Casanay. Image by Leonardo. |
Tyhry herself was in the new story as a character who discovered the truth about the telepathic tryp'At and the Ek'col, human variants who had long secretly existed on Earth and continued to evolve as two distinct telepathic human lineages. Not only were the tryp'At and the Ek'col telepathic, but they had developed advanced nanotechnology that allowed them to micro-surgically alter their body appearance. The story ended with Tyhry moving to Hawaii and meeting a secretive group of tryp'At who were doing genetic engineering on their own children in an effort to perfect their telepathic abilities.
In the middle of the night, after beginning to furiously write out the story, Tyhry was interrupted by a phone call from Marda. Marda reported on her most failed attempt to achieve a telepathic linkage to Eddy, which this time had involved Marda trying to share a telepathic orgasm trance with Eddy. "I was fully sensitized by huge doses of oxypathin and klytykykyn petides and I was just a few feet away from Eddy when we simultaneously experienced our orgasms. I sense his pleasure, but then I could get no deeper into his mind."
Tyhry was hardly listening to Marda and really did not want to hear about Marda having telepathic sex with her father. Tyhry told Marda, "Listen, lover, I expect you to be sharing your orgasms with me and not be wasting them on Eddy."
Marda decided that it was unwise to describe the details of her failed telepathy experiment to Tyhry. "I'm desperate. I'll try anything that might win me access to Eddy's Reality Viewer."
Tyhry sighed. "I doubt if Reality Viewing is even possible. My father's stories are full of absurd imaginary technologies."
Marda had long since given up trying to convince Tyhry of the existence of the pek and the bumpha. Tyhry had no memory of previously meeting with and speacking to Nyrtia and Manny. Having reached their usual impasse, Tyhry and Marda quickly ended the phone call.
All during the small hours of the morning Tyhry had written down the new story and now, running on only one hour of sleep, Tyhry was eager to share the new story with her father. Tyhry was tempted to simply uploaded the story to Eddy's website, but she had agreed to show all stories to Eddy before posting them where Eddy's fans could see them.
Then at breakfast, Zeta had informed Tyhry that Systolina was coming over. Tyhry had argued that she and Zeta could go to Casanay. Zeta said, "No. Remember, in your role as Marda, your only reason for going to Casanay is to be with Tyhry, or possibly to talk to Eddy, but they are both in Phoenix."
"I want to be there inside Casanay right when Eddy gets home." Tyhry told Zeta about the story idea she had received from the future.
When Zeta stopped laughing, she told Tyhry, "That story makes no sense."
Tyhry proclaimed, "It is a great story. Call it an alternate Reality, if you insist."
In the middle of Saturday morning, Systolina arrived, popping out of the elevator and falling into Zeta's embrace and a hot wet kiss. When her mouth was free, Systolina told Zeta, "Tynyo is with Ada at Casanay and they are having one of their intense Ek'col sexplay sessions. I either had to join them or get out of there."
Zeta said, "I've given you standing orders that you are come entertain me when ever possible."
While watching Zeta undress Systolina, Tyhry told Systolina that she wanted to be at Casanay when Eddy returned home from Phoenix. Systolina said, "Eddy was at the Suns game last night and they were up late."
Zeta told Systolina, "Thanks for transferring his call to me. I had a fun phone sex session with Eddy."
"No problem. I had my hands full of Ada's amazing erectile breasts." Now Zeta was fondling Systolina's big breasts. Systolina told Tyhry, "They got a rather slow start home this morning."
Zeta had pulled her hands away from Systolia's breasts and was looking at her phone. "They are finally on the road and should be back for lunch." Zeta was somewhat irked with Systolina because Systolina has taken the absence of Marda and Eddy from Casanay as an opportunity to have a marathon sexplay session with Ada, a kind of mournful leave-taking in advance of Ada ending her employment at Casanay. Zeta was quite horny and she took Systolina by the hand and marched her into Zeta's bedroom.
After watching her mother playing with Systolina's big gravity-defying breasts, now Tyhry was horny. She went to her room and began to masturbate. Upon discovering Systolina's special positronic robot-derived telepathic abilities, Tyhry had requested of Systolina that she always telepathically share her orgasms with Tyhry. Now, Systolina was telepathically sharing with Tyhry her joy and
pleasure from her slick and soapy in-the-shower play session with Zeta. Tyhry quickly achieved a satisfying orgasm.
Laying on her bed and still fingering the amazingly stiff glans of her clitoris, Tyhry was
looking out the window at the Ranch1 construction site and marveling at
how quickly its walls had gone up. Now every day, even on weekends, a work crew was there, finishing the interior. Having seen the plans, Tyhry knew
that Ranch1 was a ten story high sparkling glass and steel structure with laboratory research space on the lower floors and apartments for the staff and their families on the upper floors. Tyhry knew that Ada had ordered DNA sequencing equipment that was scheduled to be installed inside Ranch1 in the next few weeks.
Finally, Zeta had sated her sexual appetite and she and Systolina burst out
of the shower and began dressing, which by their rules meant they had to
dress each other. Through Systolina's eyes, Tyhry could Telepathically see the lovely
body that her mother was now using, that of Rylla Onway, the chief
financial officer for the Henrito Research Institute.
In her new story, positronic robots were the handiwork of the technologically-advanced tryp'At who had endowed positronic robots like Systolina with telepathic abilities. In Tyhry's imagination, both Marda and Systolina were using Eddy's science fiction stories as convenient cover for their secret mission among the conventional humans of Earth. The goal of that mission was to solve Earth's global warming problem.
As the glow of Systolina's most recent orgasm faded, Systolina kept open her telepathic link to Tyhry. Systolina asked Tyhry: Did you enjoy the show? Tyhry had enjoyed the telepathic experience of Systolina making love to her mother and Tyhry knew that Zeta was deliriously happy with her new life. Tyhry knew the
basics of how Zeta was channeling profits from Simpera into the
non-profit Research Institute and using those contributions to science
research as tax write-offs for Simpera. Ada's DNA sequencing core facility would probably be the first functioning laboratory of the Henrito Institute and Ada had promised Tyhry that she could work part-time as a technician in her lab. Tyhry could well imagine a direct path from working in Ada's lab to her future vision of going to Hawaii and there becoming involved in research on ocean microbes.
Emerging from the bedroom, Zeta and Systolina were
talking non-stop about plans for the rest of the weekend and the fact that Marda, Eddy and
Anthony were going skiing. Systolina said, "Unless the roads are closed."
Zeta said, "The roads might close after they get to the ski area. They might not get home Sunday evening. If that happens I want you here with me for the night."
Tyhry knew that the trip to Phoenix had been motivated by the need of Eddy and Marda to shop for
new skiing equipment. Having never before shown an interest in downhill skiing, Eddy's daughter (actually Marda in disguise) surprised him by suddenly asking to go with Eddy and Anthony to the downhill skiing area.
What Eddy took to be his daughter, Tyhry, was actually Marda in disguise. Marda had long wanted to try skiing, but the opportunity had never previously arisen for her. Eddy's old boots and bindings were worn out and Eddy also needed to get new equipment. Marda, playing the role of Tyhry, needed a complete set ski equipment and clothing suitable for a day on the mountain during what was forecast to be a large winter storm. Tyhry, still not interested in skiing, got out of bed, barely listened to Zeta's and Systolina's plans for the rest of the weekend. Tyhry was still horny and fantasizing about what she and Marda would be
doing together in bed that coming night.
The three women finally took the
elevator down to the ground floor of ranch0 where Zeta was immediately intercepted
by the architect who was working there in his office through the weekend and was caught up in the process of designing Ranch5. Systolina and Tyhry went to
the garage and stood looking at the big Jeep that belonged to Rylla and
Zeta's sporty little car, which Tyhry loved to drive. Sometimes Tyhry
had dreams of flying, and the closest she could actually come to those
dream experiences was by driving her mother's car too fast. Tyhry opened
up the driver's side door of Zeta's car and told Systolina, "See you at
Casanay."
Systolina could telepathically sense that Zeta was deep
into the details of the astronomical expense that was baked into the
extravagant design of Ranch5. With each successive building of the Henrito site that she helped
design, Zeta found more ways to make the research labs and the
associated living spaces more luxurious. The staff and researchers of
the Henrito Campus would mostly be housed on site, either in more of the
modular prefabricated homes or in apartments in the upper floors of the
research laboratory buildings. The architect and his family had moved
into the first of the modular homes as soon as Zeta, Anthony and Tyhry had moved out of it.
Systolina
felt obligated to give Tyhry the type of warning that was usually given by
Zeta before Tyhry drove. "If you get stopped by the police, only flash your fake driver's
license if asked."
"I don't drive that fast, auntie. I won't be stopped." Tyhry got in the car and drove off.
Systolina
watched Tyhry driving too fast as she disappeared down the Ranch0
driveway and her telepathic link to Tyhry reached its length limit and snapped. Systolina reflected on the fact that Tyhry and Marda had both adopted the
habit of referring to Zeta and Systolina as 'auntie' whenever they felt
they were being treated like children. Systolina got into the Jeep and
started it up, knowing that Zeta would appreciate the heater. Still thinking about Tyhry's relentless efforts to claim her adult status, Systolina smiled and thought about how relentlessly Tyhry and
Marda took every opportunity to assert that they were now adults and
deserving of being treated like adults. Marda had explained it plainly to Zeta one day: "The gene sequencing is clear. Tyhry and I are tryp'At and we are both physiologically adult tryp'At. You can't expect us to suppress our amped-up tryp'At sex drives." Knowing the truth of that statement, Systolina was happy to provide Tyhry and Marda with second-hand sexual experiences relayed to them by way of Systolina's telepathic ability. Systolina giggled as she thought about how sometimes when Tyhry was horny she would remind Systolina to "pimp out Zeta", a request from Tyhry that Systolina make love with Zeta and telepathically share the experience with Tyhry.
Finally, Zeta reached the garage and
got into the passenger side front seat of 'her' Jeep. "Sorry about the
delay. I see Tyhry took off." Zeta used an app on her phone to check on
Tyhry and saw that her daughter was traveling at close to 100 MPH going
up the strait highway through the valley. "She seems determined to get
stopped for speeding."
Systolina suspected that Marda had somehow deployed a network of detectors along the roads
between the Henrito site and Casanay. Anytime there were police in the
area, Marda always let Tyhry know about it. "Don't worry about Tyhry. She has
a guardian angel." Before arriving on Earth, this copy of Systolina had
been shown Phari Simulations of the future that left Systolina
believing that nothing bad would ever happen to either Marda or Tyhry.
Under heavy overcast, as the last direct sunlight of that day faded from the sky as the overcast solidified, a
few snow flakes were swirling in the air. Zeta commented, "Some day Tyhry will get a
surprise from a patch of ice and then we will learn how well that sophisticated array of
airbags in your car works."
Systolina nodded, but said, "I hope you are wrong about ice in Tyhry's future. She seems certain she will end up in Hawaii." Systolina was shifting her thoughts back to Ada. "Since this is mystery girl's last weekend at Casanay, I feel I should do something special for her."
Zata insisted, "Last night was your chance to do something special. She does have a husband... you can't expect Ada to spend the whole weekend with you."
Systolina said, "I do what Ada expects me to do. She's fallen deeply in love with me these past months and regrets reaching the end of her employment at Casanay. She gets in as much play time as she can with Tynyo, but he is very busy trying to keep Naseh entertained. Apparently, Naseh is delighted to finally have an Ek'col lover for the first time in her life."
Zeta suggested, "If you want to do something special for Ada then tell her the truth about the gene sequencing."
Systolina had played a trick on Ada. Knowing that Ada wanted to understand Tyhry's mysterious genome, which Sytolina imagined had been carefully designed by Manny, Systolina had first allowed Ada to analyze artificial tissue collected from Systolina that contained no DNA. After Ada and Tynyo had wasted a month trying to understand why their DNA sequencer could not decode a sample of what they thought was Zeta's DNA, Systolina had provided Ada with tissue that contained DNA totally unrelated to that of Tyhry. Since Systolina's body was an artificial construct composed of femtobots, she'd "played her trick" and allowed Ada to work for months with simulated human tissue that told Ada absolutely nothing useful about Tyhry's unique gene patterns. Systolina giggled and said, "Given how confused MG is over her sequencing results, I've almost convinced myself that she is not actually Manny in disguise. However, our mystery girl is still lying to us. I've given her every opportunity to come clean, but she still suspects that I'm Manny's agent inside Casanay."
Zeta said, "Systolina, making Ada come every day is not the same as letting her come clean." Both Zeta and Systolina had become Ada's lovers. And both Anthony and Systolina had used all of their telepathic powers and femtobot probes in an effort to prove that Ada was Manny's secret agent, all with no success. As far as they could tell, both Ada and Tynyo were carriers of a possibly complete set of Ek'col gene patterns, but they seemingly had no link to the bumpha.
Systolina shrugged. "True. Well, starting next week she will be your problem not mine. Now I have to find and hire her replacement."
"You are already using your nanites to clean Casanay. You could cook Eddy's meals."
"No, Eddy believes that his wife can't cook and prefers to spend her time gardening."
The snow was now coming down steadily and Zeta was worried about her gardens. Zeta said, "I better check to see if you got the domes correctly inflated and prepared for all the snow heading our way."
Arriving at Casanay, Systolina and Zeta toured the inflatable domes that would be tested during the now arriving storm which was forecast to have gale force winds. Zeta found and adjusted several deficiencies in how Systolina had deployed the domes and programmed their heating equipment.
Tyhry waited impatiently until Marda, Eddy and Anthony arrived, returning to Casanay after having completed their shopping in Phoenix. Tyhry wanted to corner her father and show him the science fiction story she had written, but Marda took Tyhry to her bedroom suite and they had a quick and fiery sexplay session that concluded with them in a shared orgasm trance. Marda again dosed both herself and Tyhry with synthetic oxypathin and klytykynyn that she had paid a company to produce. The two sex hormones heightened their sexual pleasure, but failed to allow them to expand their telepathic linkage to Eddy or anyone else.
With the passing months and many shared orgasm trances, Marda and Tyhry had gradually learned to optimize their tryp'At telepathic linkage, allowing them to link thoughts even when they were not together in the same room. Arriving along with their frequently shared telepathic orgasms trances that were now amplified by Marda's supply of synthetic oxypathin and klytykynyn hormone peptides, Tyhyr had begun to have her visions of the future. Based on Eddy's novels, Marda was certain that some of the tryp'At like Tyhry had the ability to receive information from the future via the Sedron Time Stream. Now Tyhry suggested to Marda that the Ek'col and the tryp'At had both evolved the ability to share telepathic mindspaces and telepathically receive information from the future. Marda telepathically told Tyhry: You should apply Occam's Razor. Your theory of the evolutionary origin of human telepathy is absurd. Why did Neanderthals and Denisovans evolve telepathic abilities and not the regular humans who now clearly dominate planet Earth?
Tyhry replied:
You just can't accept the fact that you are on a secret tryp'At mission inside Casanay.
Marda suggested: In one of Eddy's stories, he depicted the Ek'col as able to telepathically enter into an orgasm trance without physical contact. I'm sure I've seen that ability in action. Ada can engage with Tynyo in telepathic sexual intercourse. When Tynyo shares a long-distance orgasm trance with Ada, she simply stops what she is doing, even while she is busy working. You and I always require physical contact for producing our orgasms. The Ek'col simply seem to be more powerful telepaths than we tryp'At. Maybe we need to work through Ada and use her more powerful telepathic abilities to get into Eddy's mind.
Tyhry had never felt any telepathic link to Ada. She suggested: Maybe Systolina can pull this off.
After their sexplay session, Marda showed off her new winter clothing, modeling it for Tyhry. Tyhry commented, "Very cute, but I prefer you naked."
Tyhry and Marda emerged from Tyhry's bedroom suite and Systolina inspected Marda's and Eddy's new ski equipment. Systolina had already telepathically lifted the key elements of Marda's plan from her thoughts and soon Systolina telepathically suggested: Maybe Ada will agree to participate in an experiment during which I try to function as a telepathic bridge between tryp'Ats and Ek'cols.
After lunch, Marda, playing the role of Tyhry, had helped Ada take the lunch dishes from the dining room to the kitchen. For months, Marda had frequently propositioned Ada to move beyond occasionally allowing Marda to play with Ada's amazing erectile breasts and drink Ada's oxypathin-rich milk. Ada had always insisted that Marda would have to wait, usually telling Marda things like, "I don't think you are mature enough to successfully deal with my sexual appetite. Your mother can, so you have hope. You just need to wait until you are older". Now Marda insisted that she had waited long enough and it was time that they become lovers and try to telepathically link their minds. Ada laughed and told Marda, "I feel like I should make you get a note from Eddy saying he approves of you having sex with the cook."
However, after the kitchen was cleaned and put to order, Systolina arrived and told Ada, "Even if you refuse to have sex with Tyhry, we should try to link your telepathic minds." Ada relented and took Marda and Systolina into the nearby west wing home theater for the telepathy experiment.
After lunch, Zeta took Anthony to the Casanay hot tub and Tyhry, still disguised as Marda, had Eddy to herself at his computer and she explained to him her new fan-fiction story. Unable to believe in the reality of space aliens, Tyhry had constructed in her mind a complex model of the tryp'At and Ek'col as genetically-related human variants with telepathic abilities that had evolved naturally on Earth. Eddy began asking questions about Tyhry's idea, saying, "So, in your fictional universe, there is no need for either the bumpah or the pek?"
Tyhry replied, "There is no evidence for the existence of space aliens. The tryp'At and the Ek'col must have evolved naturally on Earth."
While Tyhry showed Eddy her story, Marda dosed herself with more oxypathin and klytykynyn and relaxed in one of the large comfortable chairs inside the theater. For the telepathy experiment, Systolina started with Ada as the telepathic recipient, testing if Ada could telepathically detect a signal that Systolina first pulled out of Marda's mind and then relayed directly into Ada's femtobot endosymbiont, not using Systolina's positronic robot-derived telepathy channel, but rather a set of Sytstolina's programmable femtobot probes. During the experiment, Marda (disguised as Tyhry) thought about the fact that a klytykynyn gene had been found on the Y chromosome of both Tynyo and Naseh's son, Tim. Both Marda and Tyhry seemed to have high levels of klytykynyn receptors inside both their mouths and their vaginas. For the past week, Marda had been using manufactured klytykynyn to boost her
telepathic linkage to Tyhry, but she still could only sense the fringe of Eddy's mind. Marda wondered: could Ada's seemingly more powerful Ek'col telepathic abilities be used to reveal how to activate Eddy's Reality Viewer?
Marda had never told Ada about the sex hormones, but suddenly, Ada said, "What is klytykynyn?"
"Good!" Systolina said, "That transferred from Tyhry's thoughts into your mind."
Ada asked, "But what is klytykynyn?"
"You know I've been studying tryp'At and Ek'col gene patterns." Marda told Ada, "Klytykynyn is the name I gave to an interesting protein that is coded for by Tynyo's genome."
"We have to confirm this link." Systolina ordered Marda, "Think about something else."
Ada asked, Marda "What does this klytykynyn do?"
"Please!" Systolina told Ada and Marda, "No talking now. Just use telepathy."
Marda was now thinking about how she had used her ability to program zeptites to speed up identification of the oxypathin and klytykynyn hormones. Marda did not want to reveal her ability to program zeptites to Anthony, but this would be a good test of her ability to telepathically relay information to Ada via Systolina. Marda thought about how she had programmed a zeptite-based detector that had been used to perform assays on laboratory samples, speeding up the production of active synthetic oxypathin and klytykynyn peptides. After five minutes, Marda telepathically asked Systolina:
Is she getting it? Systolina replied: Getting what? Your mind went blank.
My mind is not blank. I'm thinking about zeptites.
Systolina asked: What are you thinking about?
Marda telepathically replied: Zeptites. I learned from Tyhry how to program zeptites. I just don't want Anthony to know.
Systolina said, "Your mind keeps going blank."
Ada said, "I just got something about Anthony."
Suddenly, it was all clear to Marda. She was unable to telepathically share with Systolina anything about her ability to program zeptites. That meant she had a special brain module that allowed her to think about zeptites and telepathically program them, a brain module that was invisible to either Systolina or Anthony. Marda made the next logical leap: the tryp'At had been designed to have a zeptite endosymbiont that could hide information from telepaths like Anthony. But Tyhry had been able to use that module of her zeptite endosymbiont to telepathically share what she knew about zeptite programming with Marda. She muttered out-loud, "Eddy must have one too."
Ada asked, "Have what?"
"He's tryp'At." Marda did not want to say what she was thinking. "Eddy must have a gene for oxypathin or klytykynyn."
Ada asked, "I thought oxypathin was the hormone you found in my milk?"
"It is." Marda nodded, "I've imagined that Eddy must have a tryp'At version of klytykynyn, but maybe I was wrong. He might have the tryp'At equivalent of the oxypathin gene, but since he is male it is not expressed." Tyhry was trying to make up some fictional biology to distract Ada.
"What?" Systolina said, "Tyhry, that makes no sense."
"Sorry." Marda giggled and revealed the two little bottles that contained tiny pills with synthesized oxypathin and klytykynyn peptides, "I'm dizzy. I think I over-dosed myself on oxypathin and klytykynyn for this experiment. Forget everything I said. I'm going to go lay down in my room." Back in her room, she sent some of her zeptite monitor probes into her own brain an quickly found the subsection of her zeptite endosymbiont that held all of her understanding of zeptite programming. It was as if Manny had intentionally provided her with the ability to quickly find that module. All she had needed to do was search for it!
The next time Eddy went into one of his trance-like states while seated at his computer, Marda used her zeptite probes to monitor the activity Eddy's zeptite endosymbiont. Marda was able to easily identify the sedron-based telepathic communications protocol that Eddy's zeptite endosymbiont used for access to the Reality Viewer. Marda now understood that the Reality Viewer was not actually inside his computer, but it existed in the Sedron Domain and was accessible via a special zeptite comlink that Manny had inserted into the computer's structure.
Now Marda had access to the Reality Viewer and she could use it telepathically whenever Eddy was not using it. She did not even need to be close to the computer. With her telepathic ability boosted by oxypathin and klytykynyn, Marda could use the Reality Viewer from the privacy of her own suite of rooms. Marda's experience while using the Viewer was spooky. She went into a trance-like state during which she was able to obtain information from past Realities, but after the trance was over, she was left with the information but uncertain how she had obtained it. Marda now understood how Eddy wrote his science fiction stories. While sitting quietly, he could use the Viewer and get story ideas without even being conscious that he had been doing anything other than letting his mind wander and generate new fictional plot elements for his current novel writing project.
End Chapter 12 - Jump to; Chapter 13.
Next: plans for Chapter 13 of "The Hierozyme Intervention".
