Copying Elizabeth

Old Time Gaming

On this blog page, below, is Part 4 of the science fiction story Old Time Gaming. The story involves the use of advanced technologies for time travel and teleportation and their application towards the goal of altering the trajectory of Earth's historical timeline. At the end of Part 3, the young boy, Max, had departed from a remote wilderness mining camp, taking with him all the horses and camels. 

John and Rylla suspect that Max is an Interventionist agent in disguise. Before being sent to Australia in 1814, Rylla had been warned to expect that she would run in to Maria Green, a time traveler from the future. In Part 4, John and Rylla must deal with the meddling Maria and get their gold mining expedition back on track. Also, Rylla is due back in Parramatta.

Part 4 of Old Time Gaming. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

"Well, we can't stand here talking about your sexual fantasies all day." Rylla kissed John on the lips. "You go catch Max or Maria or whoever it is that has the animals. I'll introduce Liza to Manny and see what I can learn from Manny about this mess we're in. She must have looked into our future and been expecting this."

Reality Viewing

With his arms tight around Rylla, John said, "I've been told that the future is nothing more than probabilities. The future can always throw up a surprise." He began telling Rylla a story about a past incident with Manny during which she had visited him on Earth and warned him about a future event.

Rylla wiggled out of his embrace. "That's very interesting, but I know Manny can use her advanced technology to View the future. I don't want to believe that Manny was surprised by what has happened to us today. But enough talk! Hit the trail."

John gave Rylla a mock salute, turned and began running, following the tracks that had been left by the departing caravan during the night. He was feeling rather foolish for having been so engrossed with Rylla that he had not noticed Max's departure with the animals. It seemed to defy all reasonable probability that neither he nor Rylla had heard any sounds when Max took off with the caravan... unless this was all planned by Manny.

As he ran, he morphed his artificial body, transforming his legs into sleek spring-like appendages and he also let a cloud of nanites carry away some of his body weight. Now running at top speed, he was quickly gaining ground on the plodding camels.

"Come with me, sweetheart."

Back at camp, Elizabeth was cooking her breakfast and steaming over the inexplicable behavior of Max. Quickly advancing on the girl and with no warning, Rylla put her arms around Elizabeth and said, "Come with me, sweetheart." At that moment, Rylla activated the teleportation system that could at any time whisk her off of Earth. Rylla expected to be teleported to the sentient spaceship, Many Sails.

Instead, Rylla found herself at some distant location deep in the Australian Outback. For a moment she considered the possibly that she had been mistakenly teleported to one of the lakes in Victoria or South Australia, but then she saw Manny and instantly stopped worrying about her exact location. Rylla and Elizabeth had appeared right in front of Manny, the humanoid appendage of Many Sails, who had been expecting Rylla to make use of teleportation. Manny asked Rylla rhetorically, "What did I tell you about bringing me people from Earth?"

Elizabeth crumpled to the ground. Rylla went to one knee and briefly tried to hold Liza, then let the girl sprawl at her feet. Rylla glancing up at Manny and now she noticed that none of them had any clothing on their bodies. Further, Rylla was now back in her own body, not that of Sophie. Rylla gazed appreciatively upon Manny's sexy body and then finally found her voice and asked, "What did you do to Liza?"

Manny glanced down Elizabeth's prone body and replied, "Don't worry... she'll sleep now."

After weeks of using her telepathic connection to John, Rylla could now sense that Manny was rummaging around in her mind. Rylla felt a distinctly erotic sensation from Manny's telepathic contact and felt her clitoris engorge with blood. "I'm half expecting you to say that this trick with Max was your way of calling me in for... a briefing."

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Manny laughed. "We have Nyrtia the positronic robot to blame for all this. Nyrtia discovered that your gold mining expedition was near the root of an Intervention that caused a change to the timeline. Our challenge is, how can we use Nyrtia's counter-move to our advantage?"

Rylla asked, "Can't you send me back in time again? I can avoid my mistake. Now I know not to take Sophie's brother Max along with us into the Outback..." Rylla fell silent as Manny shook her head slowly from side to side, sending her fabulous hair into flashing waves of motion.

"No, I don't want to get into a time travel war with Nyrtia. We just need to be a bit more clever than the positronic robots. We'll allow Maria to think that she thwarted your plans." Manny held up one finger and said, "First, I'll teleport you back into the caravan so that you can fill John in on what you are hearing from me."

Rylla sighed. She had been having so much fun with John and Elizabeth at the mining camp that she was now dreading the prospect of the long, lonely ride back to town. "I'm tempted to stay with John at the mine and give up on the school."

Manny giggled. "Say your sad goodbyes to your lover boy, John. But don't feel sorry for yourself... there is more than one penis in Australia. Get yourself home to Parramatta so that you can resume Sophie's work at the school... remember, education is still our top priority. You need to find a way to expand the Parramatta school, not abandon it."

"Yes, of course." Standing there looking at Manny's graceful body and the way she continued to hold her finger pointed upwards, Rylla was having hard time not thinking about John's penis and the delightful way that he could vibrate it inside her vagina. "Can you excuse my weaknesses?"

"My dear, I carefully designed these so-called weaknesses." Manny stepped towards Rully and placed a delicate kiss on the girl's lips. "I'm only happy when my agents on Earth are happy. Trust me. You'll still be getting plenty of satisfying sex back in sleepy old Parramatta." She jabbed her finger emphatically towards the sky. "I can't tell you too much about the future, but I can say this much: you'll soon become busy with concerns that will take you beyond the school yard."

Rylla looked down at Elizabeth where she lay sprawled across the soft tufts of grass. "What about Liza?"

Manny bent down, plucked an ant off of Liza's cheek and picked up the sleeping girl. Gently cradling Liza in her arms, Manny said, "She'll be busy, too. It is a good thing she's getting some rest!" Manny chuckled at her own small joke and elaborated, "I'm going to make a total of three copies of Elizabeth. Her ability to be in several places at the same time will be the key to our success."

Startled by the idea of allowing more than one copy of Liza to be present on Earth at the same time, Rylla blurted out, "Three copies? You'd do that? It seems dangerous. What do you hope to accomplish?"

"You'll see... eventually this Liza replication strategy will make sense to you." Manny teleported Liza away. "One copy of Liza simply stays in Parramatta." Manny now held up two fingers. "Her twice-weekly visits to your home will help keep you happy until the next phase of your mission."

Still uncertain how the gold mining phase was going to be completed, Rylla asked, "Next phase? How many copies of Liza will that require?" 

Manny giggled then remembered to tell Rylla, "Oh, and there are now also two copies of Max... one copy is very happy living in the Outback, so don't try to force him to go home."

Rylla looked confused. "About Max... how do you know it wasn't Nyrtia who intervened and took control of the boy's mind?"

endosymbionts

"I know." Manny did not want to explain to her operative all the details of how it was possible for a bumpha to not only control human behavior, but also out-fox the positronic robots of Earth. "It is not very difficult for me to influence the behavior of anyone on Earth by using my advanced nanites. For example, you've recently experienced how I made you fall madly in love with John... and he with you."

Rylla felt her nipples pop erect. "Hey!" Rylla felt a heated rush of sexual excitement. "And with my telepathic link to John, I've learned how to recognize the feel of another mind sifting through my memories. You are also a telepath, aren't you?"

Manny nodded. "Yes, I can read your mind like a book." Manny reached down and ran the tips of her fingers along the length of Rylla's hot, wet labia. "More importantly, I can write your memories as if I were writing a book. However, I try to allow my agents almost complete autonomy... with just a few delicate touches from me..." Many deftly massaged the stiff glans of Rylla's clitoris. "...such as the assistance I've been giving you in helping you learn how to use your artificial body to achieve amazing orgasms."

Rylla felt her vaginal secretions dripping down her leg. She rubbed her finger tips over her stiff nipples and experienced a jolting orgasm.

Manny said. "I like to keep my agents happy and sometimes I can't resist tweaking your mind." Looking at Rylla, and snooping through the girl's thoughts, Manny could see her knees quivering and sweat on her brow as her orgasm persisted and Manny could also experience the warm sensations as Rylla's vaginal muscles contracted rhythmically. Although that Asterothrope feature had been devised by Nyrtia, Manny had to admit that it was a job well done. At that moment, Manny was experiencing a simultaneous orgasm with Rylla, and using their telepathic link, she did not hide that fact from Rylla. 

As their orgasms slowly faded, Rylla whispered, "I'm just amazed that an ancient being like you is so interested in orgasms."

"What... you think I should be sitting around in a dusty library or something?" Manny giggled and told Rylla, "There is an ancient Huaoshy saying: the only universal constant is the orgasm." She added, "It is a fact of physical Reality that we bumpha have observed for billions of years and across thousands of galaxies... intelligent life-forms without orgasms simply don't last very long."

Manny in a library.

Rylla suddenly had a series of flashed images pass through her mind, all scenes of Manny reading books in libraries at different points during the history of Earth. In the final image, Manny seemed to be looking right at Rylla. In her mind, Rylla heard: I do love libraries... almost as much as orgasms.

Rylla ran her fingers through Manny's silky hair. "Thank you for that wonderful orgasm, but I did not hear any thunder."

"Patience, my dear. By revealing to you our shared telepathic linkage, I could not prevent us from triggering that one little orgasm, but in the future we will do far better... you'll hear thunder. So, we have that to look forward to, but right now I need to get you back to Earth."

Rylla tried to ignore her erect, tingling clitoris. "I still don't understand how Max... Maria... was able to sneak out of camp without being heard."

Manny explained, "I made sure that you and John were quite well distracted while Maria performed her dirty deed and stole the horses and camels." Manny slipped a finger inside Rylla's vagina and let it vibrate wildly for a few seconds. Then she pulled her finger out and licked it delicately with the tip of her tongue before putting into her mouth. Finally Manny restrained herself from further sexplay, and said, "Remember, we want Maria to believe that she was able to prevent a gold rush in New South Wales. History will not record the existence of an 1814 gold rush." 

Rylla chuckled. "You make it sound like Maria is your puppet."

zeptites

Manny shrugged. "Call it what you like. Human bodies all contain a Phari endosymbiont. Nyrtia embedded Maria in Max's endosymbiont in such a way that Maria could take control of the boy's behavior when the time was right. There is nothing that can prevent me from using the same trick to take control of Maria at just the right moment." Manny kissed Rylla and for a minute let her tongue play around in Rylla's mouth. Then, reluctantly, Manny pulled back and said, "I'd like to stay here playing sex games with you, but I need to go visit Maria."

"So, Maria was hiding inside Max during the whole journey into the Outback?"

Manny shrugged, "I have not bothered to trace back and find the point in time when Maria's mind pattern was inserted into Max's endosymbiont. Do you think that is important?"

"I don't know." Still slowly recovering from her orgasm, Rylla felt her wet crotch and the incredibly stiff glans of her clitoris. "I'm just startled by the idea that such mind transfers are possible. I wonder... could there be another mind inside me right now, hidden in my endosymbiont?"

"Well, this might creep you out, but that is essentially the trick that I use all the time to monitor your adventures on Earth. In fact, with my constant link to your endosymbiont, I can experience anything that you experience, particularly your sweet orgasms."

"I'm starting to understand why you have been arranging for me to have so many orgasms."

"Well, yes, it is a bit selfish of me. However, none of my agents has ever complained about having too many orgasms. I took great care to design that feature of the human organism. Humans are not truly happy and mentally healthy unless they spend several hours a day in intimate contact with the bodies of other people. In your artificial bodies, you and John can enjoy sweet sexplay through the entire day if you have nothing better to do with yourselves." Manny giggled. "Even the positronic robots enjoy having sex."

Rylla could now almost think clearly again after her mind-expanding orgasm. She asked, "Are you going to pull Maria out of Max's body? Will he remember what happened while she took control of his behavior?" Rylla cried out, "This is so confusing!"

"Sorry to dump so much information on you all at once." Manny put a comforting arm around Rylla's shoulders and stroked the girl's protruding left nipple. "Don't sweat the details, my dear. I'll take care of everything." Manny kissed the tip of Rylla's nose. "Now, enjoy yourself.... this will be fun for you." Manny waved her hand and Rylla was teleported back to Earth.

Rylla found herself back with the caravan and back in Sophie's body, dressed in her riding clothes and seated in the saddle on her horse's back. Her crotch was still moist with vaginal secretions, her nipples still erect. She enjoyed the motion of horse and how the saddle massaged her erect clitoris. Max was there on John's horse, just a few feet ahead. The camels trailed along behind. Max turned in his saddle and looked at Rylla with surprise. "Hey, what- How did-"

Rylla did not try to explain anything to Max, instead she heard herself saying, "You don't look well. Are you getting too much sun?"

Max said, "I don't remember how we got here!"

Rylla found that she was not really in control of her own mind. She relaxed and enjoyed the rubbing of her genitals against the leather saddle. Manny had implanted a script in her mind and words continued to pass through her lips: "Sun stroke. Don't tell me you've changed your mind again."

The boy took off his hat and rubbed his head. "Changed- What do you mean?"

"This morning you decided to go back to Parramatta with me."

"No I didn't! I'm staying with John, to mine gold!"

"Well, if that is how you feel, then we better turn around." In a few minutes, they had the caravan turned and were heading back towards the gold mine campsite.

Max said, "This makes no sense. Why were you taking the camels back to Parramatta?"

Just then, seen coming up the trail towards them, was John. As he approached he transformed his body back to normal. He and Rylla happily re-established their intimate telepathic linkage. Looking up at Rylla where she sat on her horse, he said, "How did you- What's going on?"

Rylla turned to Max and said, "Go get up on your camel."

The boy went to the end of the caravan and climbed up on his mount, which Manny had politely equipped with its passenger platform. John got up on his horse. He was telepathically sensing Rylla's tingling sexual excitement and his penis began to stiffen. He said, "So, I guess Manny sent you here to deal with Maria. What happened?" He began searching through Rylla's memories.

After getting the caravan moving again, Rylla shook her head and tried to think. She was slowly regaining control of her own mind, but was greatly distracted by her lingering state of sexual arousal. She told John, "I don't know how Manny got rid of Maria. Manny told me that she would take care of everything. Let's hope we won't have any more dealings with Maria! Max seems to have no memory of what happened during the hours that Maria was using his body." Using telepathy, Rylla quickly explained to John what little she had learned from Manny during the brief visit with her.

telepathy

Rylla's telepathic account of her time with Manny -and the blissful orgasm that Rylla had shared with Manny- was interrupted by a telepathic love making session between John and Rylla. As they rode down the trail and as they reached their sexual climax. John, standing tall with his feet in the stirrups, had opened up his pants in order to liberate his erect penis. Now he powerfully ejaculated his body's artificial semen right over the head of his horse. As the pleasure of their shared orgasms slowly faded, Rylla completed her account: And then, suddenly, Manny sent me back to the caravan. Max and I only had time to turn the caravan around before I saw you coming down the trail.

John laughed and tried to close up his pants. "I'm still confused, but grateful to Manny for the chance to share one last orgasm with you. Do you really have to return to Parramatta? I'm going to miss you. Maybe we can keep our telepathic linkage..."

Rylla shook her head. "The further apart we are, the weaker our telepathic connection."

"Maybe if we tried... if we had a specific shared thought that we could use to keep our minds synchronized..."

Rylla told him, "Don't think too much... Manny indicated that she has everything under control and I believe that she is always arranging for you to have your fair share of pleasing sexual encounters... so even if we must be apart, I'm sure you will do just fine without me. You just get the gold. I still need to get myself back to Parramatta... it will be a long hard ride..." She was still enjoying the pounding rhythm of the saddle against her genitals. "...with little time to rest along the way."

"What about Elizabeth... where are all her copies?"

"I don't know and you don't need to know. Just get back to the mining. Maybe I'll find out what happened to Liza when I get back to town... Manny promised me that one copy of Liza will be there, waiting for me to return. As for the others.... Manny seems to think that we can't know too much about our own futures." 

Before surrendering to her desire to stay with John, Rylla turned her horse, rode past the caravan, waved goodbye to Max and started down the trail, now trying to set a quicker pace than the camels could sustain. Just then, Manny teleported Rylla and her horse back to civilization, to a point just a few miles west of Parramatta. Rylla was greatly relieved that she would not have to endure the a long, solitary trek through the wilderness and back to civilization. Looking up at the sky, she said, "I love you, Manny".

Soon Rylla was back in Sophie's comfortable little home. Waiting for her there was a cheerful Elizabeth, who claimed that she was very pleased to see Rylla and had been house-sitting. This copy of Elizabeth seemed to have no memory of going into the Outback and indeed, seemed to have been living in Parramatta for the past several weeks, with no memory of ever even thinking about going along with Rylla into the wilderness.

That evening, when the caravan finally got back to the mining camp, a second copy of Elizabeth was there, cooking dinner for a group of four natives. She called to John, "Dinner is almost ready."

John and Max watered the animals then joined Elizabeth by the fire. The natives had eaten and quickly departed. Max began to voraciously consume all the remainder of the meal. Liza told John, "The camels make them nervous, so they did not stay to chat."

John asked, "You know their language?"

Liza winked at John and said, "Why not?" At the same time, she telepathically connected to John's mind and he realized that this was not Elizabeth, it was Manny, disguised as Elizabeth.

Max was still confused by the day's events and his mind swirled with questions. Manny telepathically answered a few of those questions and gently erased most of them from his mind. When Max went off to his tent, Manny told John, "In the morning he will have forgotten everything that happened today. Turning to the side, she pulled open a blanket that held a small pile of gold nuggets. "I'll give Max false memories of a day spent collecting all this gold." Anticipating John's next question, Manny continued, "Rylla is back in Parramatta with another copy of Elizabeth. A third copy is with Maria, who is now reporting to Nyrtia on her successful mission here in the Outback."

John laughed and shook his head in wonder. "With your ability to alter and control human memories and behavior, I have to wonder how much you have edited my mind."

Manny disguised as Liza.

Manny took him by the hand and pulled him into the big tent. "Don't worry about such fine details." She proceeded to distract him with some very entertaining sexplay, and he never had any further questions for her about memory editing. When he awoke in the morning, he did not even remember that this was Manny, not Elizabeth. The only mysteries remaining for John were why Liza no longer complained about anything and how she managed to work such long, hard hours mining every day. John seemed not to notice that now it was Max who had good appetite while Liza seldom ate or drank. Even after a long day of mining, Liza always had plenty of energy for sexplay in the tent with John.

One week later, after the team had fallen into the rhythm of the gold mining operation, a horseback rider came into their camp just as evening fell. Rising to his feet, John began to chuckle quietly. A tall woman got off of her horse and walked up to the campfire. Speaking English with a strange accent, she said, "Well, this is a welcome sight." Telepathically, she told John: pretend that you don't know me.

John recognized Rylla's mind pattern and said, "Are you hungry?"

Max pointed to the cooking pot. "Beans and lizard meat. What's your name, lady? I'm Max."

Rylla replied, "My name is Verella, but folks call me Rylla." She glanced towards their sluice. "The rumor in Sydney is someone found gold out here in these hills." She sat beside the fire and took a taste of the food.

Rylla in her own body form

Manny gazed across the fire and winked at Rylla. For Max's benefit, she said, "If you have a strong back and are willing to work, we can use another pair of hands. The gold is here for the taking."

Rylla made up a story about speaking to Sophie and then coming to find the expedition. 

When Max grew tired and went to his tent, John smiled and asked Rylla a question to which he already knew the answer. "So, this is your real body form?"

Rylla nodded. "I told you that I'd let you see my skinny ass." Thunder was rumbling and Rylla looked up at the sky. It would soon be raining again.

Manny pulled Rylla to her feet. "Get in the tent, girl. I told you weeks ago that we'd eventually have time for sexplay and now is that time." John thought that was a strange thing for Liza to say, but as soon as the three of them were in the tent, he forgot all about that.

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New South Wales coin

Back in Parramatta, soon after resuming her school sessions, Rylla was visited by Sophie's mother, Dame Laura McKnight, who wanted to know where her daughter had gone during the past few weeks when she had not been in Parramatta. Rylla said, "Before I tell you, you must promise not to tell anyone else."

Dame Laura shook her head, "If you have done something illegal, I can't promise to protect you."

"I've done nothing illegal, but the law is not very settled here in this colony. I believe that when you hear what I have to say, you will help me."

Dame Laura shrugged. "Go ahead and tell me the tale of your big adventure, but first, before you get caught up in the details, please tell me the big picture."

Rylla handed a silver coin to Dame Laura. "The big picture is money. I have discovered a new source of money for New South Wales... far superior to the silver coins that our Governor had provided." Rylla next handed over a big gold nugget.

Dame Laura examined the nugget and asked, "Where did this come from?"

"I'd rather not say."

Dame Laura handed the coin and the gold back to her daughter. "Then why did you show it to me? I can't suppress my curiosity... but I'd probably be happier if I'd never seen that gold!"

"No, you will be very happy... if you help me. I want to make a deal with the Governor. I'll show him a nearby source of gold... but in return, I need his help. I want support for development of an Australian institute of higher learning, a university."

Elizabeth MacQuarie

Dame Laura laughed. "How can I help you?"

"You know the Governor's wife, Elizabeth. Arrange for me to meet with her."

Dame Laura rose to her feet. Looking out into the backyard, she saw a horse grazing and asked, "What happened to your garden? I thought you hired our Elizabeth to watch your house while your were gone."

"Please mother, don't worry about my poor garden. I now own a horse, which is more useful to me than a garden. What about the Governor's wife... can you arrange it?"

"I'll invite her to my home, for dinner. The Governor knew your father before he died. He may want to accompany Elizabeth if she accepts my invitation and agrees to visit my home."

Rylla sighed and felt like her artificial mind was allowing her to accurately remember all of Australian history and even details of the lives of famous people. "Elizabeth is a very literary person and I know she would support the idea of a university. The Governor is another matter. I don't think he ever went to school. His whole life has been devoted to soldiering."

"Well, I'll send an invitation and we shall see what transpires." Dame Laura moved towards the front door. "The Governor might surprise you... he is not an ignorant bully."

"Thank you, mother." Rylla was surprised that during this visit Dame Laura had never mentioned Max. Rylla felt that she should drag the matter out in the open and make sure that Max's decision to stay in the Outback would not be a lingering source of annoyance for his mother. "About Max-"

Dame Laura smiled. "Don't worry about Max. He got hired to drive a delivery wagon and has forgiven me for not allowing him to go with you into the Outback. He's greatly enjoying his job."

The two women went outside and Dame Laura climbed up into her carriage. Rylla said nervously, "I'll be waiting to hear from you."

Part 5

"I hope you know what you are doing... try to stay out of trouble." She signaled to the driver who prodded the two horses and the carriage began to roll away.

While waving goodbye, Rylla muttered quietly, "If I get in over my head, I'm sure that Manny can bail me out."

Dame Laura chuckled and called to Sophie, "Money can't fix all problems."

Rylla decided it was for the best if Dame Laura thought that Rylla said 'money will bail me out'. She regretted having spoken the word "Manny".

Next: Part 5 of Old Time Gaming.