Zeptite Endosymbiont, Part 2.

Zeta (disguised as Rylla) and
Tyhry (disguised as Marda) shortly
before Tyhry moves to Hawaii.

 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.

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.

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.

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 reported 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). 

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. 

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."

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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 specking 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 and Systolina. Image by Leonardo.

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.

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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. 

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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."

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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.

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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."

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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."

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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?

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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 orgasms 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 Tyhry inspected Marda's and Eddy's new ski equipment. Systolina had already telepathically lifted the key elements of Marda's plan from their 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.

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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."

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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?"

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"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!

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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".

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Ada at Casanay

An infographic for NOTCH2NL genes according to Flow.

Below on this page is Chapter 11 of the science fiction story "The Hierozyme Intervention", in which Ada visits Casanay, still in search of the individual whose DNA was sequenced by AdaGen at Marda's request (see Chapter 10). Anthony suspects that Ada and her husband, Tynyo, must be secret agents working for Manny the bumpha.

The events in Chapter 11 take place the day after Zeta's wedding to Anthony. Zeta recognized that there is something special about Ada and Zeta is determined to make sure that Ada does not "get away". For her part, Ada knows that she must find the individual whose unusual NOTCH2NLC gene she sequenced for Marda and Ada has no intention of going away anytime soon.

The Hierozyme Intervention Chapter 11 - Marda Targets Ada (Ch. 1)(Ch. 2)(Ch. 3)(Ch. 4)(Ch. 5)(Ch. 6)(Ch. 7)(Ch. 8)(Ch. 9)(Ch. 10)   

In the morning, Anthony cooked breakfast for Zeta, Tyhry and Ada. Ada emerged from the back bedroom wearing one of Rylla's robes that was too short for her, but showed off her incredibly long legs. Tyhry could smell bromine on Ada and guessed that Zeta had played with her in the hot tub. Tyhry, pretending to be Marda, explained to Ada that she had first gotten her own genome sequenced, but the DNA she had sent to AdaGen was 'for a friend'.

Ada asked, "How did you know that your friend would have the same NOTCH2NL genotype as you?"

"Call it a lucky guess based on us having similar phenotypes."

Zeta (disguised as Rylla), Tyhry (disguised
as Marda) and Ada. Image by Leonardo.

"So those hairs you sent me were not from your mother?"

"No."

Zeta arrived in the dining room and set a pen and a printed document on the table close to Ada. Having over-heard part of the conversation, she asked Tyhry, "What about me?"

Tyhry told Ada, "My mom has never had her genes sequenced."

Ada read through the contract that Zeta had drawn up. Anthony brought food to the table and sat down across the table from Tyhry. Tyhry told Anthony, "Based only on the audible squeals of delight I've heard, I'm going to thank you for making my mom very happy."

Anthony said, "I'm working very hard to show how happy I am to be rescued from my long isolation at Casanay."

Ada had read the contract. Glancing at Zeta, she commented, "You even got my middle name correct."

"I talked to Alfred Nortin, who rents you space for AdaGen. He told me all about you... and your husband."

Ada signed both copies of the contract and handed one to Zeta. She looked at Anthony and asked, "Casanay?"

Anthony provided a quick summary of his years of employment at Casanay working for the Watson family.

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Ada asked, "Casanay is here in Arizona?"

Tyhry explained, "It is nearby, actually quite close." She waved in the general direction of her home. "I met Tyhry at school soon after moving here and the rest is history. Anthony swept my mom off of her feet."

"Wow. It sounds like a whirl-wind romance." Ada looked at Zeta and licked her lips, more from memories of the hot tub play session with Zeta than Anthony's cooking.

Tyhry said, "Mom knows how to get what she wants." Pointing at the contract, Tyhry continued, "I'm trying to be polite, but I'm dying to know what these papers are for."

Zeta handed one of the copies of the contract to Tyhry. "Ada has kindly agreed to become employee number one of the new Henrito Research Institute."

Ada asked, "When do I get my I.D. badge?"

Zeta replied, "That's up to you. The contract specifies that you don't have to be on-site until six months from now, giving you time to wrap up your AdaGen affairs. If you really want a badge, your first task can be to design a logo to go on the badge and then you need to buy the equipment for making badges. Ranch0 has a magnetic key-card door system, but it has not been activated yet."

"The whole operation seems like it was started on a whim." Ada kept glancing at Anthony, wondering about his brooding silence. She asked Zeta, "What kind of a name is 'Ranch Zero'?"

"It is 'Ranch0'. There will be a whole series of buildings. We break ground on the Ranch1 site next week. That is the building that will house the DNA sequencing core facility."

Ada shook her head in wonder. "It occurs to me that I should have asked where all the money is coming from for this new Institute."

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Tyhry told Ada, "Mom is the chief financial officer for Simpera."

"Simpera?"

Taking note of the time, Zeta asked Tyhry, "Are you taking the bus or are you going to let Anthony drive you to school?"

"I don't want to go."

Zeta told Ada, "Marda hates school."

Tyhry, pretending to be Marda, said, "It is particularly hard to keep going since Tyhry dropped out."

Zeta explained to Ada, "My daughter's friend recently quit school." Zeta told Anthony, "Please take Marda to school. I know it is a thankless task, but attending school is good for her."

Tyhry complained to Ada, "You'll find out quickly, my mom can sweet talk you into anything and then you will pay the price for years. I was happy to be home schooled and would be thrilled to go back to it."

"Pay the price?" Ada laughed and said, "That sounds ominous."

Tyhry asked Zeta, "So what is going on? Is Ada moving in with us?" Tyhry made a half-hearted effort to read Ada's employment contract.

Zeta replied, "She has six months to shut down AdaGen. Hopefully she can start having gene sequencers installed inside Ranch1 at that time." 

Anthony and Tyhry departed. Ada accepted Zeta's invitation to celebrate the signing of the contract with a long soapy shared shower. On her way out of the guest house, Ada and Zeta shared a long hot kiss then Ada passed Anthony coming up the driveway.

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Ada drove back to town and soon found the public school. Ada went into the office and asked questions about the curriculum and college attendance rates for the students. During a brief break between class sessions, Ada watched the students and almost instantly noticed a girl who appeared to be Marda's age who had long blond hair that appeared almost white under the bright noon sun. Ada followed the girl to the cafeteria and then returned to the Q Diner where once again Tynyo was waiting for her.

Tynyo and Ada embraced and snuggled in on the same side of a booth. He said, "That was quite a performance you and Rylla put on last night. I'm glad you arranged for me to listen."

"Rylla makes me very horny. You missed my encore performance in the shower with her this morning. I hope you are not too jealous."

"I can put up with a lot for eight million."

"There is something very strange going on... apparently worth millions to Rylla if kept hidden." She asked her husband, "What would you say if I told you that Eddy Watson lives in Arizona?"

Tynyo and Ada had long joked together that they might be carriers of alien genes. They knew of Eddy's science fiction stories and how he encouraged his fans to pretend to be aliens. Ada showed Tynyo her new employment contract and told him about what she had learned that morning. Tyhno sensed in his wife's telepathically-linked mind her near certainty that the home of Eddy Watson was nearby. "Eddy is notorious for maintaining personal privacy. I can't believe you've discovered him so easily."

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Ada and Tynyo quickly learned from the waitress the location of Casanay. Then, over a long leisurely lunch, Ada tried to assemble what she knew into a coherent story. The young Marda had hired AdaGen for a strange gene sequencing job focused on looking for an almost unknown gene sequence in DNA that Ada had extracted from the roots of three blond hairs shafts. That sequencing job had attracted Ada's attention because she and Tynyo shared the same unusual NOTCH2NLB gene, making their unusual Notch gene different from the NOTCH2NLC gene that was in the DNA sample provided by Marda. 

As far as Ada could tell, the Onways had only just arrived in Arizona recently, about the time when the hairs had reached AdaGen. Then there was the Henrito Institute, which the locals seemed to know almost nothing about, although Tynyo's reading of back issues of the local newspaper indicated that there had been some controversy over the wind and solar power collector arrays and deep gas and water wells that had been approved for the Henrito site. Marda had met Tyhry Watson at school and Anthony had started a romance with Rylla that quickly led to a wedding. Given that concatenation of events, there did not seem to be many possibilities for the identity of the person whose DNA it was that AdaGen had sequenced at Marda's request.

Tynyo and Ada were carrying on two conversations. One spoken and one telepathic. 

Tynyo suggested telepathically: I can approach the Watsons at Casanay.

Ada shook her head. I have other plans for you. For now, I'm going to pretend that you are still at our fixed address, tending the server array. In fact, I need you to start looking for rental server space where we can archive all of the AdaGen data. Rylla has bought controlling interest in AdaGen and I suspect she will shut down all AdaGen operations in six months. So for now, I'll remain our public face. Oh, and I want you to research that company... the cash source... Simpera.

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"Public face?" Tynyo commented: I'm guessing that Rylla has been enjoying your face... or at least your tongue.

Ada rapidly flicked her pink tongue in and out of her mouth for Tynyo's amusement. I'm doing my best to satisfy all her requests... it never hurts to stay on the good side of your boss. Ada reflected on her play sessions with Rylla. I feel like I'm getting as good as I give. Rylla is a fun and imaginative lover. Ada kissed Tynyo and said: Thanks for being a good sport about this, my love. I'll make it up to you the next time I get you in bed.

Tynyo had a hand between Ada's legs. "Let's not wait." They took advantage of their Ek'col telepathic powers which included an ability to enter into a shared orgasm trance at any time they chose.

When Ada recovered from her orgasms, she returned to normal consciousness and departed from the Q Diner. With her breasts erect and vaginal secretions running down her legs she walked to the rental car. A passing man was impressed by her erect breasts that seemed to float and bounce excitedly as Ada walked across the parking lot. 

Starting up the rental car, Ada pulled ot of the Q Diner parking lot and went in search of Casanay, which was not really very difficult to find. It was a small geographical puzzle, like an equation where all the relevant data was was already provided and Ada could just solve for the only missing variable, X. After an hour of exploring the few roads that existed in the likely area, Ada felt confident that she was close to the likely location of Casanay. Pulling off the state road and into what seemed likely to be the Casanay driveway, Ada hesitated and came to a complete stop while gazing up the driveway. A large "No trespassing" sign was right in front of Ada's car. No buildings were visible from the highway or this end of the driveway, but Ada had a satellite image that showed the presence of a large home at the other end of this driveway. She had no business at Casanay, only a burning curiosity to find the person with the unusual Notch gene. A woman's voice spoke through speaker mounted high on a nearby pole, "Are you lost?"

Ada solves for X.

Ada rolled down the window of her car and replied, "I'm looking for the Watson residence."

"We are not interested in speaking to you unless you have business here." There was a long pause. The woman finally added, "Are responding to the help wanted advertisement?"

"Yes, that is why I am here." Ada had no idea what she was getting herself into, but not realizing that she had already met Tyhry, she was willing to do anything to find the person whose DNA AdaGen had sequenced.

"Then come up the driveway to the house."

Ada drove slowly up the long driveway, furiously trying to construct an excuse for visiting Casanay. However, with Anthony recently moved out, it seemed likely that the Watsons were hiring staff to replace him. Ada parked in front of Casanay and gazed at the luxurious home that seemed carefully designed to blend into the landscape, unlike the ugly monstrosity that was Ranch0 Henrito. 

Exiting from the car, Ada felt the full force of the bright summer sun beating down from a cloudless sky. A small lizard scurried across the walkway in front of Ada. As she approached the front door, it swung open and a blond woman said, "Please come in."

For a moment, Ada simply stood and admired the beauty of the woman who was standing there in doorway and Ada wondered if she had found the source of the blond hairs that Marda had sent to AdaGen for DNA sequencing. The woman impatiently gestured to indicate that Ada should enter the house. Ada walked past the woman and turned, so as to keep her eyes on the woman. 

After closing the door, the blond woman turned and met Ada's gaze. Feeling like she was in a staring contest, Ada turned to face the interior of the room she found herself in. While Ada's eyes were adjusting to the dim interior of the Casanay great room, she noticed a man seated beside a computer workstation. 

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While using an app on her phone to re-lock the massive front door of Casanay, Systolina (disguised as Zeta) told Ada, "The advertisement was quite clear. You were supposed to call if you had questions about the online job application." 

Systolina had femtobot monitor probes at the Henrito site and she already knew perfectly well who Ada was.

"I'm sorry, but I was in the neighborhood." Ada made a small waving gesture towards Eddy. "I was curious to see this place."

Eddy got out of his chair and approached Ada. He said, "And I'm curious. Just how tall are you?"

Zeta jabbed Eddy's ribs with her elbow and told Ada apologetically, "Please pardon my husband, when he see's a beautiful woman his brain stops working. He's Eddy, I'm Zeta."

Ada was running her eyes up and down Systolina's body. Systolina was disguised as Zeta and with Marda in her room reading and analyzing the AdaGen report that Tyhry had faxed to her and with Anthony now moved out of Casanay, Systolina had spent the morning trying to entertain Eddy by wearing a very sexy outfit that covered only a tiny fraction of her skin. With her eyes on Systolina's amazing breasts which seemed ready to pop out of the skimpy top that was struggling to restrain them, Ada told Eddy, "My condolences, sir, if I had her to look at, I'd also switch off my brain and just enjoy the sights and scenery."

Eddy laughed and spoke to the woman who he believed was his wife, "I thought you only just posted the help wanted ad online last night." 

"Yes, that's right, and no applications have been submitted yet." Systolina nodded. "I thought we would get applications by email. It did not occur to me that someone local would figure out that we are trying to hire someone new to replace Anthony."

Eddy's eyes traced up and down Ada's long body then with special effort he managed to get his eyes off of Ada and he looked outside. "That looks like a rental car."

Ada invented her excuses: "I just got to town... I'm moving closer to my grandmother. She's not able to drive any more. I need to find a new job here in this area."

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Returning his gaze to Ada's fantastic tumble of red curls, Eddy said enthusiastically, "I'd hire you right this moment," Eddy added as a kind of after-thought, "but I suppose my wife will ask you to cook a meal for us first."

Systolina told Ada, "My husband can't say no to a pretty girl, but I have to wonder, are you over 21?"

Ada giggled and told Systolina, "You are sweet. I'm 29. I'll be thirty in October." 

"Strange, you don't look nearly that old. I wonder if I know your family?" 

 Ada explained, "I was at the Q Diner. I mentioned I was looking for work and I was told some confused story about a wedding and someone called Anthony." She shrugged, "Anyhow, I just need a job. I'll do anything that needs doing."

Systolina had pushed her telepathic tendrils deep into Ada's mind and had already decided to hire Ada. She reached out and touched Ada's amazing hair. "Anything?"

Ada laughed and said, "Within reason." She reached out and felt Systolina's long silky hair. She slid her hand down and touched one of Systolina's big breasts. With her gaze on Systolina's breasts, Ada asked, "Are those real?"

 Having recently watch the sexual attraction that sparked up between Zeta and Rylla, Eddy could see the same thin happening with Ada. He laughed and threw up his hands. "I must get back to work. You two are distracting me." Eddy went back to his workstation, put on his big headphones and again took up the task of writing his new novel. Still, he found it impossible to completely ignore Ada whose appearance had immediately started Eddy thinking about the Ek'col, a human variant that he had included as characters in several of his science fiction stories. All day, he'd been using the Casanay video cameras to watch the woman he believed to be his wife working around the house in her sexy outfit and spending time packing up items that Anthony had left behind in his west wing suite. Now, as he got back to his writing, he kept glancing at security camera images from each room that provided views of the two women while Zeta gave Ada a tour of Casanay.

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Systolina took Ada by the hand and led the way out of the great room and in the direction of the kitchen. She put her free hand under one of her breasts and bounced it up and down. "I'll let you judge for yourself if my breasts are real... just let me know what data you need to collect. And Eddy is right... when you are not busy experimenting with my breasts, I want you to cook dinner for four this evening."

They passed into the dining room and paused. Ada found it hard to keep her gaze off of Systolina's breasts, which Systolina was artificially plumping up and pointing at Ada. Ada said, "This place is fantastic. The statues and paintings are amazing." She waved in the direction of a painting that was on the wall and asked, "You were the model for most of them?"

Still holding Ada's hand and taking her out of the dining room and into the kitchen, Systolina explained, "Sadly, most of the art you see should follow Anthony to his new home. He worked here for fifteen years and often carved and painted female forms that might have been inspired by me. Or I should say, the old me, back before I got old and fat."

Systolina finally let go of Ada's hand. Ada looked in the refrigerator and the freezer in order to see what food was on hand. The food was standard, unlike Systolina's bulging breasts. Ada told Systolina, "You are not fat."

"When I was pregnant I gained ten pounds of fat that that I never managed to lose. Eddy seems to enjoy bouncing my excess adipose tissue around in our bed, so I've learned to live with it. There is a larger freezer down the hallway." Systolina pointed deeper into the west wing. "Anthony always kept several several month's worth of food in the house."

Ada ran her hands along her slender sides. "I've never been able to put on weight."

Systolina suspected that Ada had Ek'col gene patterns or might even be Manny in disguise. "And the world is pleased. You have a sexy body like a fashion model."

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Ada asked, "Who am I cooking for? You and Eddy and who else?" 

Systolina explained, "My daughter, Tyhry, and you, as well. If you decide to work for us, it will be our expectation that you live here and join the family for meals."

"What can you tell me about Tyhry's preferences?"

Systolina patted one of her large breasts. "Don't worry about Tyhry, she's never been interested in food ever since she weened. My daughter won't complain, even if you cook something atrocious."

"Is Eddy as easy to please?"

"Ada, you don't have to worry about Eddy, either. I'll take care of pleasuring Eddy." Systolina winked at Ada. "You can devote your all of your efforts to keeping me satisfied."

Ada giggled, "That will be my pleasure. Just promise you will rescue me if you happen to notice me drowning in your beautiful boobs."

"I'm prepared to give you mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, as needed." Zeta again took Ada by that hand and continued giving Ada a tour of Casanay.

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Marda had been diving deep into the gene sequencing data that had been generated by AdaGen for Marda. A URL and password provided in the printed report that Ada had given to Tyhry (thinking she was Marda) gave Tyhry and Marda access to the gene sequences that were being stored on AdaGen's servers. Even while Marda worked, new gene sequences continued to arrive, fresh of the Adagen automated DNA sequencing machine that was chugging away inside the Apex mobile laboratory parked about thirty miles away.

Genome browser by Flow.

Marda was using the UCSC Genome Browser to compare her own gene sequences to those that had been generated as part of the human genome project. Following Marda's instructions, AdaGen had used degenerate probes and PCR to amplify all of Tyhry's gene's with sequence similarity to the human NOTCH2NL genes. This strategy had originally been suggested to Marda by Ylyndra and had quickly led to use of template sequences from the N2N (Notch 2 N-terminal-like) gene which had been found in 2004 and assigned to chromosome 1. The company that Marda had previously hired to sequence her genome, had found both Marda's unusual NOTCH2NLC gene variant and shown that it was distinct from the NOTCH2NLC gene sequences obtained from of six control individuals by PCR fishing with specific oligonucleotide probes. 

The AdaGen report stated that there were three major NOTCH2NL gene sequences, that they called NOTCH2NLA, NOTCH2NLB, and NOTCH2NLC. Tyhry was startled by the match of this nomenclature to Ada B. Catalana's name. Marda told herself: Surely this is a message from Manny, telling me that I am on the right track!

Tyhry's NOTCH2NLC gene variant (which she had as identical copies on her two chromosomes #1) was a precise match to that of Marda. What AdaGen called "NOTCH2NLA" was what had been called the "N2N" gene in 2004. Tyhry searched, but could find no mention of NOTCH2NLB, and NOTCH2NLC gene sequences in public databases, but the AdaGen report suggested all of the unique NOTCH2NL gene variants were being called "N2N" in the GRCh37 human genome databases.

When Tyhry got done with school, she called Marda by phone and Marda explained to Tyhry that they were "blood sisters", sharing the exact same unusual NOTCH2NLC gene, as Marda had expected. Marda was convinced that their shared unusual genes is what made it possible for Marda and Tyhry to communicate telepathically.

Marda.

Tyhry reported to Marda that she was continuing to work on their chemistry term paper. Marda said, "Right now, I can't think about anything but these gene sequencing results. We are going to have to contact AdaGen. Their report says nothing about the NOTCH2NLB gene, but they seem to have been familiar with it before they saw your NOTCH2NLC gene."

Tyhry said, "That's weird, just like Ada herself. It was quite a surprise when she suddenly showed up on our door step yesterday. Zeta wasted no time in getting to know her... in the biblical sense."

Marda started fantasizing about licking Tyhry's hot genitals and realized she had worked through lunch and was now hungry. "I want to see you tonight."

Tyhry said, "And I want you, lover. But I have a pile of homework Zeta will say 'no' if I ask." Tyhry and Marda proceeded to sext and they both achieved satisfying orgasms.

When Marda got off the phone, she dried off her dripping genitals and went down the hallway from her suite to the great room where Eddy was working at his computer. Marda approached Eddy and again found him seemingly staring at the display screen and not moving at all. The first time Marda had seen this behavior she had been confused, but then both Zeta and Tyhry had told Marda about Eddy's amazing powers of concentration. Tyhry had told Marda, "When dad is writing, he plans out stories in his head. There have been plenty of ties when I've tried to speak to him and he was immobile, like he was in a trance, just sitting there at his computer. I learned to not even try to speak to him when he is like that. Any other time he's always willing to take a break fro his work and chat." 

Eddy's "Reality Viewer trance".

For a minute Marda stood there and watched Eddy. His eyes seemed to flick around as he stared into the computer display screen, but he seemed unaware of Marda's presence, even when her stomach growled comically loudly. Marda turned away from Eddy and went to the kitchen where she ran into Ada. Seeing Ada's beautiful red hair and great height, Marda guessed this must be Ada, but she asked, "Who are you?"

Ada was preparing a salad. She set down the knife she had been using and said, "You must be Tyhry. I'm Ada... I'm cooking your dinner and hope to replace Anthony."

Marda shook Ada's hand and gazed up at her from below. "I don't believe I've ever met a woman as tall as you."

For a minute Ada showed Marda what had been prepared for dinner. Marda could smell the chicken cooking in the oven and again her stomach growled loud enough for Ada to hear. Marda reached out to touch Ada's amazing red curls. "You mist be Ek'col."

Ada knew perfectly well what Marda was talking about. "You must know all of the aliens in your father's novels."

"The Ek'col are not really aliens. According to Eddy, the Ek'col were designed as a sexy human variant with the telepathic ability to make normal humans fall in love with them."

Ada knew the power that both she and Tynyo had over the emotions of others. In the past 24 hours both Rylla and Zeta had seemingly instantly fallen in love with Ada and now Tyhry was giving Ada a piercing visual inspection. Marda places her hands on Ada's narrow hips. "You don't have any children?"

"No, I don't. In fact, I don't think I can. My husband and I have tried every trick in the book, which makes for long, orgasm-filled nights, but no children... at least so far." Ada ran a hand over Marda's long silky hair.

Marda said, "Tell me about your husband. Is he the 'T.C.' who does most of the gene annotation work for AdaGen?"

"Yes. His name is Tynyo Catalana. I took his name when we married. How do you know that?" 

Marda snickered, and pretending to be Tyhry Watson, said, "Elementary... I'm a Watson. I can think logically and make deductions. And not to put to sharp a point on it, I just spent twelve hours examining the gene sequencing work that AdaGen is doing for Marda. And now I find you cooking my dinner. The conclusion is obvious."

"You are wickedly clever, Tyhry. I suppose it is useless for me to try to keep any secrets from you. Tell me, is it your genome that AdaGen is sequencing?"

"Bingo. Marda sent you several of my hairs. Hairs that she secretly collected and sent to you without asking my permission. Let it be a lesson to you... never trust Marda." Marda chuckled and was enjoying playing the role of Tyhry and telling Ada not to trust Marda. 

"You know Marda well?" 

"I do." Marda giggled again "Sorry, but Marda's mom just got married yesterday, so I can't say 'I do' without feeling strange." Marda had been slowly moving her hands upwards and had reached Ada's big breasts which she shoved and watched bounce. Marda tittered for a moment and said, "It is frightening to imagine how large your breasts would get if you ever had a baby. I sucked on my mom's boobs for six years, which explains why her breasts grew so big." Marda started unbuttoning Ada's blouse. "About your inability to get pregnant... I have a theory about that. The Ek'col and the tryp'At were both designed to be hypersexual, but the Ek'col were crafted to be honeypots for humans. It might be that only a conventional human and impregnate you, or possibly a tryp'At."

Systolina (disguised as Zeta), Marda
(disguised as Tyhry) and Ada.

Marda discovered that Ada's breasts were naturally perky and Ada was wearing no bra. Marda ran her hands over Ada's soft hot breasts and then pulled on one of her nipples. Some milk trickled out. "Just like in dad's novel. The Ek'col culture was built around social lactation." Marda licked the milk off of Ada's breast and then latched on to her nipple and began suckling. Marda's mouth began to tingle as she responded to the sex hormones in Ada's milk.

Just then Systolina came in. She had already had a drink of Ada's milk during the sexplay that she and Ada had engaged in on the bed in Anthony's old bedroom. "Tyhry, what are you doing?"

Marda popped off the nipple and wiped milk off of her chin, "I was hungry and could not wait for dinner."

Systolina and Ada. Image by Leonardo.

Ada told Systolina, "Tyhry was just enjoying the amuse-bouche." Ada buttoned up her blouse. She told Marda, "If you are so hungry, maybe you can help me set the table."

Systolina had already played with Ada's 24/7 breasts, but unfortunately she was not equipped with oxypathin receptors. She grabbed hold of Marda helped steady her on her wobbly legs. 

Marda was responding the the oxypathin that was present at high levels in Ada's milk. She was dizzy and all of her erectile tissue was quite stiff. Her vaginal secretions were running down her legs. Marda grabbed a napkin off the island where Ada had placed items, ready to be set on the dining room table. She lifted up the front of her miniskirt and wiped her wet genitals while telling Ada. "If you are going to work here, I'm apparently going to have to start wearing panties so I don't drip on the floor."

Zeta told Marda, "Tyhry, you don't have to show your genitals to Ada. We have not even hired her yet."

Marda insisted emphatically, "Hurry up and hire her. We can't let her get away." 

End Chapter 11.    Jump to: Chapter 12. 

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