Making Rytya

Below on this page is Part 5 of a science fiction story called "The Cythyrya Investigation". Previously in Part 3, drawing on information from the future, Eddy began to provide an account of events after Fraunz arrived on G-world. A native of G-world, Tya, became the constant companion of Fraunz and eventually they had a daughter named Rytya who inherited her mother's ability to tap into the Sedron Time Stream and receive information from the future.

In the future of the Final Reality, travel through time is no longer possible, but information can move from the Hadron Domain into the Sedronic Domain. Once inside the Sedronic Domain, information can be accessed from all points in time, future and past. However, the correct interpretation of that information requires that special quantum calculations be performed. Only a few humans have ever had the ability to process information from the Sedron Time Stream.

Tya was provided with a G-Sym at an early age and she not only had visions of her daughter from the future, but she also became aware of the fact that Rytya would be able to transmit information far into the past. Tya knew that information had been received far back in time, by Angela Fersoni in the early 21st century.

In the Ekcolir Reality, Crimson Cloukey was a chemist who discovered a new superconductor that could be used for fusion power research. While dreaming, Crimson was able to telepathically link to Tya via the Sedron Time Stream, but she has no understanding of when/where Tya lived or how they were connected. When Crimson began publishing "fiction" about hierion-doped superconductors, she was taken to Observer Base. In the Final Reality, the replicoid of Crimson sent story ideas to her analogue, Charles Cloukey and he published a few rather garbled stories about the future. Later, some of Crimson's unpublished stories were found in the Archives of the Writers Block.

Part 5 of The Cythyrya Investigation (Part 1)(Part 2)(Part 3)(Part 4)

After visiting Myllyr's Planet, Rylla had become obsessed with the idea that her daughter, Marda, might be the analogue of someone who had lived in past Realities. The first I learned of that concern was a week after Rylla and Rey had returned from using the Reality Simulation System to visit Myllyr's Planet.

Rytya

During that week, using the available telepathic connections to the Writers Block at Observer Base, Rylla had initiated a search for information about possible analogues, clones or replicoid copies of Jheral Tinzy, Lyza, Marda or anyone under any other name who might be related to Marda. I was at my computer preparing for a follow-up visit to Sogdian when Rylla sat down behind me and said, "I have a story for you to read."

I imagined that Rylla had written up a report on one of her recent excursions inside the Reality Simulation System. As I turned in my chair, it also occurred to me to ask, "Were any of the nanites that Rey brought out of the Simulator able to help with the inactivated teleportation equipment at Observer Base?" I saw that Rylla was holding what looked like a hard-cover book, but I confess that I was looking at her four breasts, which had all grown quite large while first gestating and now nursing her daughter Marda.

"No, that was a bust, but Stacy found an intriguing book in the archives of the Writers Block." Knowing my preference for paper, Rylla had arranged for a printed copy of the book to be made and she handed me a copy of a book called Contact With Alien Telepaths by Crimson Cloukey. 

Rising from my chair, I opened the cover of the book and there was only one piece of information on an otherwise blank page before the start of the story: "From the Archives of the Writers Block. Translation by Stacy Pasimov and Georgy White." Rylla added, "The story is from the Ekcolir Reality, so it had to be translated. The main character in the story is a woman, Rytya, who might be a clone of Jheral Tinzy."

Crimson Cloukey

I asked, "Cloukey? Why is that name familiar?"

"Crimson was a popular author of science fiction in the Ekcolir Reality in the years before the arrival of the Fru'wu. Her analogue here in the Final Reality only published a few stories, but that is probably how you know that name. Crimson's analogue in this Reality was a man named Charles."

I sat down at the computer and did a quick search, confirming that I had in the past read fiction by Charles Cloukey, only to forget about it. I turned back to glance at Rylla and said, "I don't have any memory of his stories." Then I asked, "How did this book get here from the Writers Block?"

Rylla explained, "This book is made of hierions, so it was teleported to Earth from Observer Base."

I was aware that the teleportation equipment at Observer Base could still teleport hierion matter while not being able to teleport hadronic matter. I'd never thought about making printed material using hierions. Carefully examining the book, which felt like a type of plastic, I said, "This is fantastic!" I had in the past spent huge amounts of effort trying to get reports on Writers Block stories by means of telepathic transmission from Observer Base to Earth. This new hierion printing technique held promise to revolutionize information exchange between Earth and Observer Base.

Rytya and Olsyd

Rylla shrugged. "In any case, Contact With Alien Telepaths is set in the far future, at a time when thousands of exoplanets have been colonized by humans spreading out from Earth into the galaxy. Rytya meets a man named Pyterov Jynkwylt, although that is a false identity and in the later part of the story he is depicted as being an artificial life-form, one of the Felydyans."

"A Felydyan!" A week earlier, Rey had returned from the Reality Simulation System and had mentioned aliens called Felydyans.

"Yes, I had Stacy search the Archives for that term. Apparently, 'Felydyan' is a term from Neoetruscan. However, I'm quite certain that Contact With Alien Telepaths is not set in the future of either the Asimov Reality or the Ekcolir Reality. It includes a character named Tyhry."

"My daughter is in the story?" I wondered: How can that be?

"In Contact With Alien Telepaths her name is spelled 'Tyhry', with two 'y's, but it seems quite clear that Tyhry-two-'y's is related to your Tihri-two-'i's. She is depicted as an ancient artificial life-form, a femtobot replicoid, who lived through the entire Space Age: tens of thousands of years, leading up to the events of the story when she meets the Felydyans... again.

"What do you mean 'again'?"

Ivory Fersoni

"It is clear from the text of Contact With Alien Telepaths that the Tyhry character has had previous contact with the Felydyans, even before it is revealed to readers that her husband, Pyterov Jynkwylt, is an alien, a Felydyan, living with Tyhry while disguised as a human being. By the way, at the start of the story, the Tyhry character is using the name 'Olsyd Jynkwylt'."

I was, at that moment, experiencing déjà vu. I now realize that Ivory Fersoni had long ago provided me with infites that held information about the Jynkwylts, but I had assumed it was only part of a jumble of story fragments that had come to me from Angela Fersoni by way of her sister Ivory. For a minute, I was thinking about the fact that I had once spent a simulated life time with Ivory, my first lover, inside a Simulation System. 

I must have been staring off into space. Rylla said, "Well, I want you to read the story. Then we can discuss its implications."

I was thinking that because of Angela's ability to receive information from the future, it was possible that she might have known about the fate of my own daughter in the far future. Having watched Tihri being born, I was struggling with the idea that an artificial life copy of her might someday be made that would live far into the future. I put aside those thoughts and told Rylla, "I'll read this right now."

Rylla said, "Good. However, take a look at this." Rylla handed me a photograph, another hierion matter artifact teleported to Earth from the Writers Block. "That is Crimson Cloukey. Stacy told me that Crimson may have been an analogue of Tihri who lived in the Ekcolir Reality."

"What? Another version of my daughter?"

Rylla said rather sarcastically, "She and Marda seem to be quite popular with the bumpha."

Rytya (left) and Olsyd

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Growing up on G-world, Rytya naturally assumed that she had four parents. At a young age, Rytya noticed that her father, Fraunz, was somehow special and it was he who took the time to teach Rytya how to golf. Only later did she understand that like Fraunz, she was among the small minority of people living on G-world who did not use a G-sym. Influenced by Fraunz, Rytya resisted the idea of taking a G-sym into her body.

Rytya's resistance crumbled when she began working as a caddie, first for Fraunz and Mylly who still competed in the Mixed Doubles Golf League. Then, after having some experience, it seemed natural for Rytya to become a caddie for the championship events in that League that were played on G World. At her second such tournament, Rytya was assigned to a new pair of golfers who had just arrived on G World; Olsyd and Pyterov Jynkwylt."

After meeting the Jynkwylts, Fraunz immediately noticed changes in Rytya and it was not really a surprise when after a year into Rytya's new career, his daughter told him, "I'm thinking about getting a G-Sym."

Fraunz knew that Rytya had become infatuated with Olsyd and was living with the Jynkwylt's, who had formally immigrated to G World and had taken up permanent residence on the planet. Fraunz was rather astounded that his daughter could be so attracted to a woman, having previously thought that Rytya was only sexually attracted to men. 

Fraunz had grown up on a planet in the Vega Sector of the galaxy where over 25% of the population lived without a G-sym and it had been easy for him to resist the temptation of linking his mind into the community telepathic communications network. However, on G-world, less than 1% of the adult population was like Fraunz and Rytya, without a G-sym. During the decades that Fraunz had spent on G-world, pressure had grown relentlessly towards the Golf Federation imposing a ban against further immigration of anyone not equipped with a G-sym. Fraunz calmly asked, "Why now?"

Rytya (left) and Olsyd

Rytya explained, "I've seen how Olsyd and Pyterov enjoy fully linking their minds. I want to experience that kind of intimacy with Olsy."

Fraunz nodded. "Long ago I experienced that kind of pressure from both your mother and Mylly, but they eventually learned to appreciate me for what I am."

Rytya asked, "How did you..." Rytya paused. She'd long known the story of her own origins, how her mother, after having visions of the future, had allowed herself to become pregnant, putting an end to her own career as a caddie. "When you met mom, did you know that..."

Fraunz shrugged. "I don't know if I had been influenced by future vision." Fraunz reached out and touched Rytya's silky hair where it cascaded over her shoulder. Rytya had jet black hair, like her mother's. Fraunze let his mind cast back to his first day on G-world. "The day I met your mother I could sense that there was something special about her..."

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Inside the luxurious Cascadia Suite, the four-group was introduced to the cook who would be at their service. "You may have dinner at any time. Simply let me know how I may accommodate you."

Mylly was pulling off her clothing and headed for the spa. She told the cook, "I'll eat in half an hour." She led Yeam into the spa room.

Dely glanced at Fraunz and said, "A soak and a massage before dinner sounds like a good idea."

Fraunz told Dely, "Enjoy the spa, I'll be back in a bit." He took his driver out of his golf bag and exited from the suite. The sun had long since set and it was growing dark outside.

Fraunz returned to the front desk and asked directions to the resort's golf equipment shop. Fraunze strolled for ten minutes through the dusk, walking from the resort's hotel to the golf club. Arriving at the golf equipment shop, Fraunz rented one of the flying drones that came equipped with a powerful light and could be used by night golfers. He then exited from the resort building and walked the next hole of the course, a par 5 with a sharp dogleg bend around the end of the resort complex. Halfway up the fairway he noticed that he was being followed. He used the drone to illuminate the fairway, back in the direction of the tee and saw that his follower was Tya. As she approached, Fraunz asked her, "Do you know this hole?"

Tya moved close beside Fraunz and gestured towards the hand-held holodisplay he was using to view a recorded image of the green. "It is better to over-shoot this green than deal with those bunkers at the front."

"So, you know this course well?"

"I grew up here. I know the first thousand miles of the Grand Course quite well." She adjusted the view of the holodisplay, zooming out the view so that it became a map of the region. She pointed and said, "I was born just a hundred miles from here, in Alywong."

Tya's hand brushed Fraunz's hand and he felt a warm sensation spread up his arm. After a curious glance into Tya's eyes, he continued walking towards the green. He asked Tya, "Are you a telepath?"

"My parents gave me my G-sym when I was three, the earliest age allowed here on G-world."

"And yet you'd be willing to caddie for me, a non-telepath."

"I don't consider you a non-telepath. As soon as you arrived in orbit I could sense your telepathic emanations. And besides..."

"Besides what?" They had reached the point where the beam of the drone could brightly illuminate the green. Tya said jokingly, "I like your big driver." Fraunz laughed as he visually examined the bunkers in front of the green then he went up onto the elevated green.

Tya moved to stand close beside Fraunz and she placed a hand against the side of his face. "Well, if you must know, I can sense that you like me."

Fraunz pressed the recall button on the drone's remote control. That turned off the drone's big lamp and it sped off, returning to its charging station. In the dim light of night, they began walking back towards the softly glowing resort building. Fraunz said, "It is strange. I feel like I know you. It seems as if I've met you somewhere..."

Tya explained, "I'm a clonal organism."

Fraunz knew that about five percent of the galactic population consisted of clones. Back when galactic exploration and expansion was still in progress, as much as thirty percent of the human population had been clones. Fraunz asked, "Have I previously met one of your copies?"

"I have a copy who has investigated all of the young sector junior golf champions... looking for someone like you."

"And now that you have me, what do you plan to do with me?"

Tya laughed and pulled the big heavy driver out of Fraunz's hand. "I'll be your caddie."

"I always carry my own clubs."

"Good. I don't want to carry your clubs." Tya took hold of Fraunz's arm. "We have more important things to do."

"Such as?"

"I don't want to scare you off by saying too much, too soon." 

"How could you scare me off?"

"Well, I have future vision. I've seen our future. We will spend many nights looking ahead to the next day's fairways and greens... and making babies."

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 After Rytya was fitted with her G-sym, she eagerly established a telepathic linkage to Olsyd Jynkwylt. With their thoughts now telepathically resonating, the two women made love. Suddenly, achieving a delightful orgasm, Rytya could access Olsyd's memories.

Rytya telepathically "saw" that Olsyd was using a false name. Her true name was Tyhry. Later, after their boisterous sexplay and laying wrapped in Tyhry's arms, Rytya was pondering Tyhry's true identity. Rytya asked, "You are not human?"

Tyhry admitted, "I'm an artificial life-form, my body composed of femtobots. I can take on any convenient physical form, but Manny suggested that you would like me in this configuration."

"I do, but I sense that you want to use me... for..."

"I'll explain." Tyhry sent infites into Rytya that did most of the explaining and also dosed her body with potent sex hormones. "I need your help to send some important information back into the past. Back the the younger me. Information that made it possible for me to begin the space age and galactic exploration."

Rytya laughed and then grew serious. "A time loop?"

"Exactly. I must get a message back to my younger self to complete the time loop." Just then, Olsyd/Tyhry's husband, Pyterov, came into the bedroom. He sat on the bed and placed a hand on Tyhry's long leg. Tyhry told Rytya, "We will get help from Pyterov who is a powerful telepath... he is a Felydyan." Pyterovre-shaped his femtobot components and took on his natural Felydyan body form, that of a beautiful cat-like humanoid. Tyhry told Rytya, "Like me, Pyterov is a femtobot replicoid."

Pyterov told Tyhry, "I waited patiently. Rytya seems to be taking this well, so now it is my turn." Pyterov's clothing dissolved away.

Tyhry told Pyterov, "Very well, let's solve the penis shortage." Tyhry took hold of Pyterov's semi-erect penis and then began sucking on it's tip. Soon Pyterov had a spectacular cat-style alien erection that Rytya could not resist grabbing with both her hands. Rytya began positioning herself to take Pyterov's big stiff penis into her dripping wet vagina."

Tyhry said, "Slow down, girl. Don't you think you should ask me for permission before you ravish my husband?" 

Rytya looked over her shoulder at Tyhry and saw that Tyhry was kneeling on the bed, one hand on her own big erection. Rytya asked, "You have a penis?"

Tyhry has shifter to her natural tryp'At body form, complete with four breasts, two vaginas and a penis. Tyhry grabbed hold of Rytya's shoulders and pushed her down onto the bed, flat on her back. Tyhry slid her long hard penis into Rytya's quivering vagina. Pyterov got on top of Tyhry and began thrusting his penis in and out of Tyhry's allzaurish. When the all merged their minds into a shared telepathic mind space during their first group orgasm trance, Rytya sensed another mind patter surrounding them, an entity known to Tyhry as Kl'ath-Sedruth. In that first session that included Rytya's G-sym, they did not have time to place much information into the Sedron Time Stream. But with practice, their orgasm trances got longer and they completed the time loop.

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Olsyd and Pyterov in human form.

It was late that night when Eddy finished reading Contact With Alien Telepaths. Rylla had gotten Marda to bed and she returned to the living room where Eddy was making notes about the story on his computer. He looked at Rylla and said, "Well, that is quite a story. I have to agree with you, Rytya must be in our far future. Olsyd must be some future version of Tihri and Pyterov an alien, A Felydyan."

Rylla looked at the display screen of Eddy's computer and said, "Do you think that is a good idea?"

Eddy briefly glanced at the targeting code for the Reality Simulation System that was there on the screen. "I should be able to quickly get a DNA sample from Crimson Cloukey."

Rylla told Eddy, "I won't have it sequenced in my lab."

Eddy sputtered, "But-"

"You already had me get sequence data on Tyhry. That raised red flags in the lab. We can run through another similar -or accidental- sample.

Eddy sighed. "I suppose you are right. And what if it is true, that Crimson was a clone of Tihri? Would that change anything for Tihri?"

Rylla giggled, "Who knows? I think it will be for Marda and Tyhry and the other mind clones to investigate their origins, if they ever decide that they want to know where they came from. Those are not our secrets."

Eddy suggested, "I could still visit Crimson... just to talk."

Rylla threw up her hands and turned away, muttering. "Do as you please. You always do what you want no matter what I say."

The room fell quiet. Zeta was out in the hot tub with Anthony. It was times like this that Eddy found it convenient to slip into the Simulator and not have to pretend not to notice Zeta's lusty sexplay with Anthony. 

Eddy wistfully imagined what it would be like if the Reality Simulation System could fully access the Sedron Time Stream and provide simulations of the future of the Final Reality. In this case, it would be adequate to visit the Ekcolir Reality, in the time shortly before the arrival of the alien Fru'wu on Earth. Eddy went through the portal of the Simulator and entered into the Ekcolir Reality Simulation, arriving just outside the front door of Crimson's home.

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the Alys Investigations

Below on this page is Part 4 of the science fiction story called "The Cythyrya Investigation". Previously, in Part 2, Rylla and Rey took Jutta to the planet Sogdian where they got help from Azynov to rescue several of Jutta's clone sisters from the strange mind-control experiments being conducted by Viole Falushe.

The Cythyrya Investigation is Jack Vance fan-fiction based on the premise that the science fiction stories of Jack Vance were inspired by actual events in the Asimov Reality. Thus, Vance's novel "The Book of Dreams" has a character named Alice Wroke while The Cythyrya Investigation shows her actual name to be Alys. Similarly, Vance wrote about Milton, "The Man from Zodiac", while in the timeline of the Asimov Reality there was Lyza (see below, on this page), an agent of the bumpha working from within Zodyac, the scientific investigative team of the Institute.

In the beginning.

In Vance's novels about Kirth Gersen, the Institute was depicted as a galaxy-spanning organization devoted to the suppression of advanced technology. However, the scientists of Zodyac discovered that the Institute is a front organization established by robots who treat humans like puppets. Lyza becomes caught up in an attempt to obtain Phari nanites that will allow humans to take control the Bimanoid Interface and end the era of humans being behaviorally programmed 'puppets' of their replicoids.

 The Femtozoan Intervention. The positronic robots of Earth developed the Bimanoid Interface as a way to provide Earth with Temporal Momentum. However, when the positronic robots first tried to craft telepathic humans, they were bedeviled by the human drive to develop ever more advanced technologies. 

A cloned woman on Sogdian (right).

During the Trysta Truce in Asimov Reality, Nyrtia linked the Bimanoid Interface in the Phari Network, which accomplished two things: 1) it allowed the Bimanoid Interface to be used on other planets of the galaxy beyond Earth and 2) Nyrtia learned how to use the Bimanoid Interface to alter human behavior, suppressing human scientific creativity and causing a kind of technological stasis during Earth's Space Age. Thus, as humans spread to the many habitable exoplanets of the galaxy, those worlds became a vast laboratory for the guided artificial evolution of telepathic humans.

At first, the bumpha worked within the constraints of the technologically stagnant society that Nyrtia had engineered, but eventually the bumpha learned enough about Phari technology so that they were then able to find a way to break the tyranny of the Bimanoid Interface and start allowing humans some freedom to develop new technologies. The bumpha tool for breaking the Bimanoid Interface became known as the femtozoan, a form of artificial life that could re-program a person's Phari endosymbiont. The events of Part 4 of The Cythyrya Investigation (below) begin soon after the events that took place in Part 2.

Part 4 of The Cythyrya Investigation (Part 1)(Part 2)(Part 3)

When Rylla and Rey returned from using the Reality Simulation System to visit the planet Sogdian, Eddy thought that Rey seemed unusually subdued. Rylla spoke excitedly about how Azynov had arrived at the Palace of Love and rescued the clones of Jheral Tinzy. Azynov had last been seen transporting the clones and Jutta back to Earth. 

Eddy asked Rylla, "What were you able to learn about Retz?"

Finally Rey spoke and told Eddy, "I believe that Retz experimented with femtozoan reprogramming and transplantation. Viole Falushe wanted to alter Jheral Tinzy's femtozoan and transplant it into a clone of Jheral. Falushe hoped that the re-programmed femtozoan would force the clone of Jheral to fall in love with him." Rey slowly shook her head and explained, "Jheral was a powerful telepathic transmitter and Falushe was a good telepathic receiver, leading to his romantic obsession with Jheral."

Tyron's anti-gravity cruiser, Pantechnyk.

Eddy asked Rey, "What do you mean by 'femtozoan'?"

Rey shrugged. "The term 'femtozoan' was in the notes of Viole Falushe and I learned it first by telepathically probing the mind of Retz, but I don't think he really had any deep understanding of its meaning. He was little more than a technician. In any case, I learned from Retz that he could exert some control over femtozoans by making use of an alien artificial life-form from Myllyr's Planet... what he knew as a Vef or a Yulir or some such. Myllyr's Planet is where we must go next."

Eddy asked, "Myllyr's Planet?" He activated the index of the Reality Simulation System and found an entry for Myllyr's Planet. Eddy glanced back at Rylla. "That world means nothing to me. There were thousands of nondescript exoplanets being colonized early in the Space Age of the Asimov Reality."

Rey said, "Myllyr's Planet is part of the ancient Phari Network of planets that existed only in the Asimov Reality, and it is a habitable exoplanet actually located quite close to Earth. Myllyr's Planet was possibly the first Phari world visited by humans. With no human social structure for generating new scientific discoveries or new technologies, there was interest by the Institute in the possibility that humans might obtain advanced technology from aliens on worlds such as Myllyr's Planet. Retz had worked in the laboratories of Tyron Russ on Myllyr's Planet and it was apparently on that world that Russ had somehow obtained negative mass hierions and began using them for their anti-gravity actions."

Irosh the bumpha.

Eddy blurted out, "Are you serious?" He had no idea that humans had learned about hierions that early in the Asimov Reality. Eddy was now thinking about the bumpha and their long struggle against R. Nyrtia and the positronic robots of Earth. Eddy wondered: might Manny the bumpha have provided advanced technology and hierions to a few people in the Asimov Reality such as Tyron Russ?

Rey shrugged. "Obviously, we will have to verify that by visiting Myllyr's Planet."

Rey told Eddy nothing about the fact that she had obtained one of the Jheral femtozoans and it now resided inside her body. Rey was tempted to test the nanites from that femtozoan to determine if they could be used to control and re-activate the teleportation equipment at Observer Base, but that could wait until Myllyr's Planet was investigated.

Rylla also had a new secret that she did not understand and was not prepared to discuss with Eddy. Rylla was unable to explain it, but the Jheral clones, when together in close proximity, could amplify their telepathic abilities. Rylla did not have much telepathic ability herself, but when the Jheral clones had been assembled all in one place, Rylla had been able to recognize the telepathic mind pattern of her daughter, Marda. Strangely, the Jheral mind pattern was quite similar to Marda's mind pattern. The idea that Marda was a clone of some other woman from the Asimov Reality was deeply disturbing to Rylla and she was not certain that she wanted her daughter to ever become aware of that possibility.

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Tyron and Lyza.

Tyron Russ tried to roll away from the sleeping Lyza and out of bed, but she noticed his movements and said, "You're up early."

Tyron needed to urinate and he had a very stiff morning erection which he fondled with one hand and pointed at Lyza, "You do that to me, my love."

Lyza followed him and they showered together. Despite her best effort, Lyza only managed to grab one quick orgasm in the shower. Tyron began to dress, but Lyza tried to pull him back to bed. She asked, "Why are you in such a hurry?"

"We reached PC23." Tyron was obsessed with his continuing search for more alien technology. Having obtained the secret of anti-gravity from the Vef-Yulir natives of Myllyr's Planet, he could not resist exploring every Phari Cavern that was hidden deep in the crust of the planet.

"It has been there for a billion years, it will still be there this afternoon. Let's wait until it warms up later today."

"I'm going down now." He was out the door before she could pull on her clothes.

It was cold outside and Lyza rushed to cover her skin as she followed Tyron to the aircar hanger. PC23 was near the south pole of Myller's Planet and Tyron had waited until summer for this visit. They got into one of the anti-gravity aircars and were soon out of the Pantechnyk and dropping towards the icy surface of the planet below. 

Lyza's eyes sought out the mine shaft entrance. She and Tyron had gone through this same routine a dozen times. As the aircar reached the planet's surface, the door at the mouth of the cavern slid open upon their approach and they were quickly landed inside the entrance to the cavern. There they were met by the Chief Miner of PC23, Polly Rhodysyo, who told Tyron, "Welcome." She looked suspiciously at Lyza and asked, "Who is she?"

"This is my new telepath." Whenever he found a more powerful telepath, Tyron disposed of the old one and exploited the abilities of the best telepath that was available to him. Tyron asked, "How is that platinum deposit panning out?"

Polly Rhodysyo

"Excellent. We are calling it Rhodysyo Reef. The levels of palladium are incredibly high."

The Chief Miner quickly got Tyron and Lyza packing into a drop pod and soon they were falling down through the human-constructed shaft and into the ancient Phari cavern. Packed in tight against Tyron, Lyza was playing with his semi-erect penis when they came to a stop and the pod popped open. They stepped out of the pod and looked around the alien cavern which looked like all the other ones they had previously seen. It was hot and stuffy there inside the cavern, but not as hot as it should be for this great depth under the surface of Myllyr's Planet. Lyza pulled off her top, exposing her four breasts and she confirmed what her telepathic sense was telling her, "The Kry are here. Or... no, these mind patterns... I don't-" Now Lyza was uncertain what she was telepathically sensing.

Tyron looked at Lyza and after noting her four erect nipples, he finally noticed that a blank look had come to her face. She tottered and fell. Tyron caught her long lean body and turned to return to the pod. Then he stumbled and found himself in a group mind space with Lyza and an alien. Lyza was in mid-conversation with the alien: ... now reveal yourselves to us?

The alien mind seemed to be having difficulty conforming to the rules of human linguistic communication. Tyron felt his mind being flooded with a million stray alien thoughts, one of which provided the name of these particular aliens: the Nyk.

The Nyk telepathically said: We Nyk are outcasts, sealed in this cavern as punishment. We are rebels and we don't heed the Phari when they order us to ignore humans.

Not comfortable with telepathy, Tyron spoke out-loud, "I am grateful for that. I've worked hard to contact you. Until now, my telepaths have only felt the minds of the Kry inside these caverns... watching."

The Nyk said: The Kry condemned us to this prison long ago. They passed over into the Hierion Domain, leaving us here. If we help you, then maybe you can help us... break us out of this prison.

Lyza and Tyron.

Lyza told the Nyk: I would be quite happy to help you, but we humans are a young species. We lack technological sophistication. Can you explain exactly what holds you here as prisoners?

The Nyk tried to explain in terms that Lyza and Tyron might understand. This cavern houses a space-time bubble that holds the uncounted billions of we Nyk. We are each femtoscale artificial life forms, caught in a limbo between the Hadron Domain and the Hierion Domain. Very few human minds are like yours, Lyza, with the ability to telepathically resonate with our mind patterns. Sadly, I see nothing in your primitive mind that could help us escape from this prison.

Tyron, as one of the few humans who had been able to escape from the behavioral restrictions imposed by the Bimanoid Interface suggested, "Maybe we could work together. You could teach us how to help you."

The Nyk produced its version of laughter. An amusing concept, Tyron. It is not easy for me to follow your non-telepathic thoughts, but with help from Lyza, I can sense that you seek to access advanced Phari nanotechnology. Nyrtia will not allow that.

Tyron admitted, "Yes, that is my personal goal. My telepaths were able to learn from another species of the Phari Network about the negative mass hierion that makes it possible for these underground caverns to exist under miles of rock. Zodyac scientists have now begun to liberate human minds from the tyranny of the Bimanoid Interface. I can think creatively about new technologies, so tell me how I can help you."

The Nyk said: We know how Zodyac has used the Vef-Yulir to alter human programming. You are clever, Tyron, but why brag about your ability to make technological advances? In essence, all you have done is use an hierion probe to disconnect your Phari endosymbiont from your biobrain. Obviously, that radical nanosurgery has damaged your mind. You are no longer sane. We Nyk cannot trust you. We agree with Nyrtia... human minds should be constrained by behavioral laws. Your mind is too wild and... dangerous. The Nyk are themselves wild and dangerous, but we are not foolish enough to facilitate your evil actions.

At that moment, Tyron and Lyza were ejected from the Nyk telepathic mind space. They found themselves in a heap on the floor of the cavern. The Chief Miner stepped out of the drop pod, having come down to assist with exploration of the cavern. She rushed forward and helped Tyron to his feet and she was impressed by his erection that was partially protruding from his loose fitting pants. 

Lyza pointed her erect nipples at the Chief Miner and while pulling back on her shirt, she reported, "We made contact with the residents of this chamber... the Nyk."

Tyron managed to cover up his erection under his clothing and he added, "But we were shunned. The Nyk want nothing to do with us."

Lyza said, "You are the problem, Tyron." She agreed with the Nyk, Tyron's mind was broken and it was her mission to undo the damage he had done. "But while you distracted the Nyk, I did learn something... I'm just not certain what..."

Tyron told Polly, "There is nothing more to be accomplished here. You can return to your mining operations. We will soon depart." With one last glance in the direction of Tyron's erection where it bulged outwards against the fabric of his clothing, Polly departed in the pod, rising up from the deep alien-constructed cavern.

For weeks, Lyza had been dosing Tyron with sex hormones and mind-altering infites, causing him to fall deeply in love with Lyza. Now, after having had his mind touched by the Nyk and placed in telepathic synchrony with Lyza's thoughts, he was in a state of intense sexual desire. He opened up Lyza's blouse and exposed her cute breasts and would have proceeded to ravish her but...

Just then, Rey and Rylla entered into the Asimov Reality Simulation, appearing inside PC23. Tyron and Lyza were amazed by their sudden arrival inside the cavern. Lyza could sense a diffuse telepathic signal from Rylla and she said, "They just appeared... from nowhere."

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Rylla explained, "We are inside a Simulation of Reality. We entered the Simulation from outside. I am Rylla and this is my friend Rey. We are investigating how humans made use of Phari technology here in this Reality."

Lyza rubbed her erect nipples with her finger tips and said, "No Simulation could be this detailed."

Rey sent some infites into Lyza and began the process of allowing Lyza to accept the existence of a Reality Simulation System that could make simulated people feel perfectly normal and unaware of the fact that they were part of a Simulation. Rey said, "We'll ask you not to worry about the fact that this is a simulation. We are here to learn and then we will depart." Rey placed one hand on Tyron's head and her other hand on the end of his erection and she told him, "I understand how you obtained negative mass hierions from a species of the Phari Network, the Vef-Yulir, but we recently visited Sogdian where Retz told us to come here and visit your laboratory. We want to know how you learned to use the Vef-Yulir like a hierion probe and how you were able to begin extracting femtozoans from human test subjects."

Tyron could telepathically sense that like Lyza, Rey was a powerful telepath. However, while he had some ability to receive telepathic signals, Rey's mind was opaque to him. He asked Rey, "Why should I tell you anything?"

Lyza moved close to Rey and placed both of her hands on Rey's head. She asked, "What are you? I sense a robot mind pattern, but also a human pattern... are you mimicking my mind pattern in order to link to me telepathically?"

Rey told Rylla, "There is something strange going on here. I..." She paused her probing of Tyron's memories and telepathically examined Lyza's mind. Rey announced, "She is another clone of Jheral Tinzy!"

Rylla nodded. "I suspected as much, just from her facial appearance, but look! She has four breasts, just like me." Rylla unzipped the top of her jumpsuit and showed Lyza her two rows of breasts.

Speaking to Rylla, Tyron commented, "And Lyza has two vaginas." He asked Rylla, "Do you?" Rey now had both of her hands on Tyron's erection. She formed synapex links to his nervous system and while sexually stimulating him, she examined the damage that had been done to his brain. That self-inflicted damage had turned him into a ruthless and obsessed man who had no compunction about working with Viole Falushe to make use of alien technology to develop human mind control techniques.

Then, another voice was heard, answering Tyron's question. "They are both from the future." What appeared to be a flashy redheaded woman came forward from the far side of the underground chamber. She added, "But sadly, poor Rylla was deprived of her allzaurish during her current mission on Earth."

Tyron asked the redhead, "Who are you and how did you get down here?"

"You can call me Irosh. I teleported myself into this chamber." Irosh stroked one of Lyza's cute lower breasts and commented, "I hope you found this body form and the sex hormones useful in captivating Tyron." Irosh turned to Rylla and noted, "And I see in your mind that you have used oxypathin to amplify your daughter's telepathic abilities."

Rylla held one of her lower breasts in her hand and said, "I've isolated and sequenced the oxypathin hormone. I'm trying to design even more potent activators of the oxypathin receptor that might alow amplification of human telepathic abilities."

Lyza (left), the secret agent
of Irosh the bumpha (right)

Irosh shook her head in wonder. "I suppose I should not be surprised that in the future, a few humans have been given access to Reality Simulation technology, but I have never viewed such a future Reality." For a moment, Irosh seemed to hesitate, then Irosh dissolved her clothing nanites and gave her torso the gaudy physical appearance of an Asterothrope female with four large breasts. For a moment she stroked and fondled her own erect nipples, then turned her attention back to the business at hand. Irosh explained, "It was I who provided Tyron with a Vef-Yulir and broke him free of the Bimanoid Interface. In the not too distant future, space elevator technology will be needed by the human settlers of Alastor Cluster. Now that negative mass hierions are known to humans and Tyron has built his anti-gravity machine, it is only a matter of time before space elevators will be constructed. I am satisfied."

Lyza reached out and stroked one of Irosh's big breasts. Lyza asked Irosh, "Can I now complete my mission?"

"Soon, my love." Irosh kissed one of Lyza's stiff nipples then explained, "I came here now because I hope Nyrtia will show herself. She must by now have viewed the future and be willing to concede the benefits of providing humans with space elevator technology."

Rey had continued to stroke Tyron's erection and now she was sucking on the the glans of his penis. Tyron was quite desperate for an orgasm, but Rey seemed to be intentionally holding him just short of his sexual climax. He now reached out a hand and fondled Irosh's big top right breast and asked, "So are you ladies just going to display your beautiful bodies or is someone going to actually get laid?"

Irosh giggled and used her nanites to remove all the clothing from Tyron, Lyza, Rey and Rylla. She placed her hands on Tyron's big hot erection where Rey's hands were already expertly massaging the long hard shaft of his penis and said, "If a group orgasm trance is what it takes to get Nyrtia's attention, then I'm all for it."

Lyza commented, "There is serious penis shortage down here."

Irosh waved her hand and three of the alien Vef-Yulir appeared, one each right in front of Lyza, Rey and Rylla. These alien artificial life forms had been carefully programmed by Irosh. Now they instantly wrapped their furry appendages around the hips of the women and began stimulating their genitals. Rey abandoned her effort to understand Tyron's fractured brain circuits and now gave her full attention to the Vef-Yulir that had telepathically linked itself into her mind while sexually stimulating her genitals. 

Irosh helped Tyron slide his erection into her vagina. Almost at once, with his penis inside the tight and silky vagina of Irosh, Tyron began to ejaculate. He found himself caught up in a telepathic mind space where the Nyk were making plans with Irosh for their escape from PC23. Vaguely, Tyron wondered what the

After some initial revulsion, Rylla began to enjoy what her Vef-Yulir was doing to her: stimulating both the stiff glans of her clitoris and the wet walls of her vagina. 

Now linked into a shared mind space with the others, Rylla was certain that Lyza was somehow related to Marda. She wondered: A clone? As her Vef-Yulir's expert attention to her clitoris quickly brought her to sweet sexual climax, Rylla entered into a shared orgasm trance and lost her capacity for normal rational thought.

With the Jehral femtozoan she was carrying, Rey felt her telepathic mind link not only to Lyza, but also Jym and Marda and... what? Another mind. Finally there was a name associated with the new mind pattern: Retya. Among all of the myriad of alien thoughts coming from the Vef-Yulir and the Kry, there were also images of cats and cat-like humanoids. Then Rey's mind pattern fully merged into the shred orgasm trance and she was lost to the intense sexual pleasure that Irosh had brought to everyone in PC23.

Later, after Tyron had dutifully and enthusiastically ejaculated into every available vagina there inside PC23, the lovers all laid there on the floor in a tangle of sweaty limbs. Tyron had finally collapsed and lay on his back and Lyza was riding his hot erection towards another orgasm. Rey and Rylla were playfully giving each other oral sex, but then Rey noticed that Irosh was gone. The Vef-Yulir were also gone, but not forgotten. Rey's vagina still tingled in a kind of after-sensation from the alien creature's amazing genital massage. Finally returning to normal consciousness, Rey popped both herself and Rylla out of the Asimov Reality Simulation and they landed back in the living room, on the floor behind where Eddy was at work on his computer. Hearing them land on the tile floor, he turned and gazed upon the naked bodies of Rey and Rylla. Rylla instantly got to her feet and went to find her daughter, Marda.

Rising to her feet, Rey covered herself with clothing nanites and told Eddy, "We met another bumpha... she calls herself Irosh."

Eddy had never heard of Irosh, but he was certain that there were bumpha in every Reality of Earth's Reality chain. He asked, "What did you learn about those femtozoans?"

Now Rey realized that during the orgy inside PC23, she had been stripped of the Jheral femtozoan. "Azynov inserted us into a Phari-built facility, deep under the surface of Myller's Planet. Irosh admitted to having provided Tyron Russ with the means to extract femtozoans from people and Retz was trained to re-program femtozoans on Myllyr's Planet." Still feeling a tingling sensation in her vagina from when the Vef-Yulir had been giving her sexual pleasure, Rey decided to leave out that part of the story.

"Amazing!" Eddy commented, "Even thousands of years later, humans of the Asimov Reality did not know how to program nanites."

Rey realized that Eddy would not stop asking questions until he knew everything. "Well, it was an artificial life-form called the Vef-Yulir that Irosh... well, I don't know how to describe it. Compelled? Programmed? It does not matter. Let's just say that the Vef-Yulir were a component of the Phari Network which the bumpha learned how to behaviorally program and control. Retz and Tyron knew nothing about nanite programming, but they got what they wanted from the Vef-Yulir, all provided by the bumpha. In my case, I got a mind altering orgasm."

Eddy laughed. "So, the mission to Myllyr's Planet was a success?"

Rey was thinking about the unusual telepathic Retya mind pattern that Rey had briefly felt during the group orgasm trance inside PC23 on Myllyr's Planet. She asked Eddy, "Do you know an alien species called the Felydyans?"

Eddy gave his head a shake. Just then, Zeta came into the living room with Tihri latched on to one of her breasts. "Welcome back, Rey." Zeta locked lips with Rey in a passionate kiss.

Eddy asked Zeta, "Do you know of the Felydyans?"

Zeta pulled her lips and tongue away from Rey and sat down in one of big easy chairs that was there in the living room and replied, "No. Are they part of the Phari Network?" Qyla the cat jumped up and laid down on an arm of the chair, close beside Tihri, who continued to nurse.

Now Rey realized what had happened to the Jheral femtozoan. Rylla muttered, "I did bring it back." Rey could now telepathically sense the Jheral femtozoan's mind pattern inside the cat!

Tihri (Tyhry) nanite programming.

Eddy asked, "Brought what?"

Rey moved to Qyla and scratched the cat's ears. "Qyla will make sure that Tihri knows about the Felydyans."

Zeta asked Rey, "What are you talking about?"

Rey had already turned to go find Anthony. She was still horny and convinced that Anthony could scratch the same itch that the Vef-Yulir had scratched in Rey's vagina. Heading off down the hallway, Rey muttered, "Tihri will understand, even if we can't." Rey knew that she had received information from the future, information that made no sense... yet.

Next: Part 5 of "The Cythyrya Investigation".

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Below on this page is Part 3 of "Someday Mars" which includes a trip to the Galactic Core and provides back story for an Interventionist agent, Alice Turing, and her replicoid copy who ended up in the Ekcolir Reality. 

The events described in Part 3 of "Someday Mars" (below) continue from the events at the end of Part 2. Alice Turing was trained on Tar'tron for an Interventionist mission on Earth in the Asimov Reality. The pace of technological innovation on Earth during the Ekcolir Reality was adjusted and accelerated so as to prepare the humans of Earth for the arrival of the alien Fru'wu in the 1950s. 

Balok the bumpha on the planet Clutence.

 Mathematics. A foundation for that acceleration of technological advances in the Ekcolir Reality had to be laid by first providing some advanced mathematical techniques to Earthlings in the Asimov Reality. Alice Turing was able to do that be living in that Reality as a mathematician and a "visitor" sent to Earth from the planet Tar'tron in the Galactic Core.

Alice is taught the advanced mathematics that is required for understanding of negative mass hierions that will be used on Earth in the construction of space elevators.

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Grean and Manny (by Whisk)

Grean felt the familiar telepathic mind pattern of Delpha. Grean turned and saw Delpha, apparently having just exited from the portal that linked to the Upwhen. Grean was completely unaware that this version of 'Delpha' was actually Manny the bumpha in disguise, not really Grean's childhood friend, the biological Delpha.

As a bumpha, Manny could alter the arrangement of her zeptite components and take on any desirable physical form. Manny was pretending to be a dutiful assistant of the bumpha, just like Grean.

There at the heart of Eternity, a hum of the chronal stabilization field was a familiar lullaby, but Grean's agitation cut through it like a sonic disruptor. Manny, meticulous as ever, was running post-jump diagnostics, her expression tight.

"Alright, out with it, Manny," Grean prodded, rushing towards Manny. "The Viewer just keeps flashing 'TEMPORAL PARADOX'. I haven't been able to see what you just saw in the future. What is the temporal paradox in play her? Is it something I will have to experience in the future?"

Manny kissed the tip of Grean's cute nose, a habit she had practiced for many decades. Manny went to the Viewer, saw the flashing 'TEMPORAL PARADOX' warning and sighed. Her fingers dance over the data interface and she checked to reveal the magnitude of this paradox. "It's not that simple, Grean. You know it never is when dealing with the upkhroknownst. We face a very high Veritas Index reading, so I can't speak of your future."

Grean and Delpha by Leonardo.

"But it's my future, isn't it?" Grean stopped, crossing her arms. "When you went upwhen, I briefly Viewed you in the future, then there was a temporal flicker in the Viewer before a collapse into chronosyptic echoes. There was a paradox energy spike, correlated to my mental signature. What is it? I need to be ready for my future, Manny, you know I do. I know the value of being upchroknownst! Last week when we were facing a V-Index of 4.0, we were able to temporal loop our way to through the paradox resistance field!"

Manny finally turned from the Viewer, her gaze into Grean's pretty eyes direct but troubled. "This isn't a Ripple-Grade, Grean. It's… precisely because it's your..." Manny fell silent. "Today, my upkhroknownst carries a Veritas Index reading of V 7.3!"

Grean's eyes widened, her posture stiffening. "Seven point three? An Invariable-Class reading? What are you talking about? My personal timeline can't be that volatile!"

"It's not volatility, it's criticality," Manny corrected, her voice low. "If I articulate it, if that information leaves this precise causal nexus and enters your conscious, present temporal stream through my agency, then  -paradox!" Manny gestured towards the Viewer which rather than show the future was displaying only ghastly red and yellow flickers. "This isn't just an Echo-Class paradox warning, Grean; it's a bio-structural foundation element of your future self's causal chain."

"But... how?" Grean's voice rose, a hint of desperation creeping in. "Will this temporal paradox unravel the mission? Will we fail? Don't make me walk into a blind future, Manny, not when the data's right there in your head even if it’s V 7.3 upkhroknownst about me!"

Manny tried to speak, a specific action, a name, a location forming on her lips. But it seemed to catch, to stick in the temporal causality filter. A subtle, almost imperceptible pressure seemed to build in the air around her, a faint, high-frequency kh-rumble that only a bumpha could detect.

"It's... it's due to our close causal proximity to the Final Reality, the vast temporal energy building towards the Final Reality Change is resisting the information transfer that you desire," Manny finally managed to say, her voice strained. "The future data is there, solid in my own upkhroknownst, but the moment I try to project knowledge of your future into your direct awareness, the universe is asserting a temporal causality lock. The specific future trajectory you're on, it seems, is an Invariable, or at least, one that relies on its original, uninfluenced progression."

Grean threw her hands up in exasperation. "An Invariable-Class event?! So, what, my future is predetermined by some unseen cosmic programmer, and I can't even get a hint as to what is coming? I have a right to my own foreknownst! Find a way around this blockage, Manny! Give me some little hint, a trivial detail, anything that will leak below the V 6.0 threshold."

Manny closed her eyes for a moment, the internal struggle evident. "Grean, if I force this, we risk creating an information loop where your actions are then dependent on knowledge whose origin becomes paradoxically circular and will cause mission failure. Or worse, we could trigger localized causal cascade failure and destroy Eternity. In any case, it's not my will that prevent me from telling you about your future, Grean, it's the very fabric of Reality attempting to maintain coherence at a V 7.3 nexus."

Manny looked at Grean, her eyes filled with regret. "My upkhroknownst is clear for me. But the moment I try to share it with you, which would allow you to act upon it, the probabilistic wave function of that particular future segment of the universe collapses into instability. It becomes unsayable. Unsharable. Your path must unfold with you ignorant of the future, precisely because of what it is."

Grean finally slumped into a chair, her frustration giving way to a grudging acceptance, laced with bitter resentment. "So I'm supposed to just… blunder into my own future? Without the benefit of a hint of the upkhroknownst  that you are free to flaunt in front of me? This is the most infuriating aspect of temporal mechanics."

Manny could only nod, the warning kh-rumble of impending temporal paradox having subsided. "Sometimes, the universe insists on its own narrative, Grean. Especially where Invariables are concerned. And sometimes, the most profound upkhroknownst is the knowledge that some futures must simply be lived."

"Oh, fuck off, Manny. Don't lecture me any more about inevitability. I don't have the stomach for it." 

Then an idea just popped into Manny's sedronic thought stream. "Here is something I can share with you..." Manny recited a poem:

My dearest Upkhroknownst
My secret deep, so very deep,
Upwhen vistas, where the chronons sleep.
I saw our futures, intertwined and bright,
A V-Index spike, bathed in quantum light.

Grean's pretty green eyes say ‘yes’ in hue,
Reflecting a present, innocently new.
You speak of Reality Change and temporal jumps,
Unknowing of love that's already begun... for me, that is.

The V-Index warning flares, a flashing, crimson sign,
Invariable-Class paradox, the warnings align.
My tongue rebels, a micro-Change felt,
A temporal kh-rumble where unsung words have dwelt.
For should I whisper what my future knows,
A causal rupture, then the timeline throws!

"What's in my future?” cries Grean, so bold.
But if I spoke of our future, what would unfold?
If I should tell you of my tender kiss,
Would your upkhroknownst create causal abyss?
My temporal foreknownst, a silent, humorous jest,
I know future joy, yet put your patience to the test.

So here we stand, in operations grand,
My silent yearning, held within my hand.
A star-crossed love, by time itself restrained,
My dearest Upkhroknownst, for now unprofaned...
Until that future, by its own accord,
Unfurls the love my lips could not record.

Grean said, "What are you saying? In the future you fall in love with Alice? Is that your upchroknownst information that is causing a temporal paradox?"

Manny giggled and said, "I can't say."

"Then why did you have to say anything at all? Now I'm burning with jealousy!"

"Sorry about that."

With her refined telepathic abilities, Wendy had noticed the return of Eddy and his daughter Tyhry to the Writers Block. At first, Wendy had simply telepathically monitored the two interlopers from the Final Reality and she tried to determine what Eddy was going to do during this second visit to Observer Base. As far as she could tell from their thoughts, the nanites obtained from Phobos had not been able to restore function to the teleportation equipment at Observer Base in the Final Reality. Eventually, Tyhry had telepathically noticed the attention of Wendy. Vance had contacted Wendy, asking for a another favor. Then Wendy had waited patiently for Grean and Delpha to finish their conversation in the workshop. Now, unable to wait any more, Wendy the probot telepathically linked in to Grean: Alice and Eddy are at it again... trying to learn about teleporter repair. There is some additional stuff they want to try... Wendy was actually thinking about the magical blow job that Alice had promised to Eddy, a technique that Wendy was eager to learn about. She continued: ... including a trip to Tar'tron... and they insist on seeing you. They want to use the Reality Simulation System that is in your workshop.

Grean by Leonardo

Grean told Delpha, "I better deal with this... Eddy and Tyhry have returned." She teleported herself to where Alice and Eddy were seated at a table in the Commons Square of the Writers Block. She told Eddy, "Welcome back."

Watching events in the Writers Block by means of the Viewer in the workshop, Manny said to herself: They are right on time.

Gazing at Grean's strange Kac'hin features, Eddy told her, "It is good to be back." Eddy and Alice were holding hands. Alice's second hand was under the table, massaging Eddy's erection.

Alice said, "Eddy keeps insisting that we are inside a Simulation of Reality and he can return her any time he likes." She gently squeezed Eddy's testicles with her hot hand. "And he seems to like." Alice winked at Grean and then asked pointedly, "Can you confirm that?"

Grean nodded. "Yes, a short time ago Eddy and Tyhry re-entered this Simulation from Reality."

Eddy said, "In the Final Reality, there are annoying blocks and restrictions on my Reality Simulation equipment. It occurred to me that I might find more flexibility here."

Grean was telepathically following along as Alice was bringing Eddy close to ejaculating. Grean felt her own penis threatening to pop out of its abdominal sheath. "I suppose you appreciate Alice's flexibility. She can hand out orgasms with one hand tied behind her back.

"Or on the table." Eddy affectionately squeeze Alice's hand that was there on top of the table. Eddy tried to keep his thoughts on the business that had brought him back to the Ekcolir Reality... at least the reason he had shared with Zeta. "Alice has been telling me about her mission training which took place on Tar'tron. I want to use your Simulation System, Grean. I assume it has no temporal or spatial restrictions imposed upon it."

Grean muttered, "You'd be surprised by the restrictions that even I cannot get around. But in this case, you are correct. I could send you to a Simulation of Tar'tron, in the Galactic Core."

"Excellent. I believe that Alice's memories were edited before she was allowed to go to Earth. I want to visit the younger Alice on Tar'tron and find out what she once knew... maybe something important that-" Eddy pulled Alice's hand to his lips and kissed her fingers, "This version of Alice has been forced to forget."

"Well, I suppose since Alice's mission was completed in the Asimov Reality, what she once knew while growing up on Tar'tron is now irrelevant. However, I see in your mind, Eddy, that you want to obtain nanites that will re-activate the teleportation equipment at Observer Base in the Final Reality. What makes you think that Alice had access to that technology on Tar'tron."

Alice replied, "I was teleported from Tar'tron to Earth. Eddy want's me to show him that long-range teleportation equipment."

Grean shrugged. "Eddy, if the bumpha don't want the teleportation equipment at Observer Base to be used to send people to Earth -or back again- then you running off to Tar'tron is not going to change that."

Eddy nodded, "I suspect you are correct, but I would not be able to live with myself if I did not try."

Grean warned Alice, "He's just looking for excuses to spend more time with you."

Alice giggled, "I don't care. I'm looking for excuses to spend more time with him, and he's never been to Tar'tron, so this will be fun... showing him my childhood home."

Grean told Alice, "That's not true. Eddy has visited Tar'tron, he just can't access his memories of that visit. I suspect that the same thing will happen now of you two go to Tar'tron. Upon Eddy's return to the Final Reality, his memory blocking infites will again prevent him from remembering anything about Tar'tron."

Eddy repeated, "I have to try."

Alice added, "And I'm very horny. Can we hurry this along? And Grean, make sure that Eddy is given his tryp'At body when you send us to Tar'tron."

Grean muttered, "I'm horny, too. I better accompany you two to Tar'tron." Grean looked around the Commons. She asked Eddy, "You did not bring Tyhry along with you this time?"

Eddy grinned and explained, "She's here... with Vance."

Grean linked her telepathic mind to Vance's familiar mind pattern. "Ah, I see. Those two love birds are already working on their second orgasms." Grean teleported Eddy and Alice to Grean's workshop. She set the Viewer attachment of her Reality Simulation System to the Tar'tron coordinates and asked Alice, "What is out temporal target?"

Alice replied, "My earliest memories are from when I was three or four. Let's make it when I was four. Place us just outside my child hook home, in the back yard."

Grean adjusted the targeting system of the Simulator. An image of the four-year-old Alice appeared on the Viewer. Grean took both Alice and Eddy by the hand and they passed through the portal into the Simulation of Tar'tron.

Generated by Mr. Wombo.

Grean, Alice and Eddy arrived in the backyard of Alice's childhood home. There was an intricate collection of swings and climbing toys there in the yard with a narrow, winding swimming pool that rean close the the circumference of the backyard. Alice went and sat on a swing. The sound of a piano being played could be heard from inside the house. Eddy went to be close to Alice and now holding her hand he said, "Is that..."

Alice nodded, "That is me. I was forced to practice music every day. Young Alice is inside her home playing piano. I much preferred to be outside."

Grean asked, "Little Alice the tomboy?"

Alice let go of Eddy's hand and gave herself a running start on the swing and was soon sailing as high as the top bar of the swing set. Grean said, "I'll go check on the teleportation equipment." She popped herself out of the simulation. Arriving back in her workshop, Manny was there and watching the Viewer. Grean could see an image of Alice swinging. "Off again."

Manny said, "Have fun."

Grean re-entered the Simulation of Tar'tron at the long-range teleportation facility. Kl'ath-Sedruth was there, functioning as the controller of the teleportation equipment. Kl'ath-Sedruth told Grean,: Eddy is barking up the wrong tree. There are no teleporter control nanites here, only me.

Grean felt the telepathic mind pattern of Kl'ath-Sedruth. She asked, "Who is there?"

Kl'ath-Sedruth said, "I've sent for the bumpha."

"Manny?" Grean was looking for the source of the temporal paradox that was looming over her. She wondered: Had Manny fallen in love with Delpha when Delpha came to Tar'tron to scout the planet?

Kl'ath-Sedruth said, "Not the bumpha from the Final Reality... I mean the ancient bumpha."

Balok the bumpha (left).

Just then, Balok came through the portal of the long-range teleporter. Seeing Grean, Balok said, "Trouble, with a capitol T."

Grean was vaguely aware of Balok, who she had never known to concern himself with Earth. Grean asked, "Can this equipment actually send someone all the way to Earth?"

Balok stepped close to Grean and stroked one of her long pointed ears with his finely feathered finger tips. "Grean the Kac'hin. First Delpha, then you. My lucky day." He rubbed Grean's crotch and felt the  permanently erect gland of her clitoris.

Grean asked, "You screwed Delpha?"

Balok gestured towards the floor at the base of the teleportation portal. "Look, you can still see some of her vaginal secretions there on the floor... mixed with my semen."

This was not Balok the bumpha, it was Manny the bumpha pretending to be Balok. And Manny was using sophisticated zeptites to push Grean to the heights of horniness. Grean eased her fingers through the feathers at Balok's crotch and foud his penis. She tugged and pulled his erection out of its abdominal sheath. She was amused to confirm the rumor that even Balok's penis was covered with fine, soft feathers. She complained, "Ever since I started my sexplay sessions with Wendy, Delpha refuses to have sex with me, but she screwed you during her fifteen minute reconnaissance of Tar'tron?"

"Well, we were sharing such wonderful orgasms, we slipped off into Simulation Fork and spent a week together. It was wonderful" Balok grabbed Grean's hips, picked her up and set her against his body, her legs straddling his erect penis. 

Grean dissolved her clothing nanites and took Balok's erection into her hot wet vagina. Five minutes later, after her orgasm, she told Balok, "Thank you. I needed that, but I should be collecting Eddy. He's the one that wanted to see this teleportation equipment."

Balok laid Grean down on the floor and began vigorously hammering at her tight little Kac'hin vagina, moving himself towards his own sexual climax. "Don't be in such a rush. Eddy and Alice are going to want a nice long sexplay session."

Grean was in no mood to argue with Balok and she began playing with his colorful feathers as she hurried towards her own second orgasm.

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The four-year-old Alice was bored playing the piano. She felt a strange sensation in her mind. Distracted, she started mangling the melody and then began improvising to the strange thoughts that were in her mind. She knew that it was her destiny to go to Earth, but now it was as if she could see Earth in her mind. Where are these visions coming from?

Finally, Alice's mother was tired of listening to the noise that Alice was making with the piano. "Very well, young lady, that's enough for today. But don't forget the extra half hour of algebra... you should do it before dinner time."

Released from her drudgery, Alice was now only thinking about swinging.  She ran into the backyard and saw a man and woman on the swing. She could not at first understand what she was seeing, then it became apparent that the woman was swinging and with each swing moving the man's erect penis in and out of her dripping wet vagina." Young Alice giggled. The older Alice now telepathically told the younger Alice: Just give me one more minute.

Young Alice who had been experiencing orgasms since her sixth moth of gestation inside her mother, reached a hand into her pants and began playing with the stiff glans of her penis where it protruded from her abdominal sheath where most of her continuously erect penis resided. Alice had never before experienced telepathic linkage to someone who had exactly her own mind pattern. An intimate telepathic connection quickly formed between the two copies of Alice. A minute latter, Eddy and the two Alices found themselves inside a a shared telepathic mind space enjoying a shared orgasm trance.

Emerging from her trance, young Alice ran across the yard and watched Eddy pull his big pink erection out of the older Alice who stopped swinging and pulled up her skirt. The young Alice said, "He's huge." She asked the older Alice, "It is not fair. You get to have vaginal orgasms and all I get is play time with my penis."

The older Alice said, "Be patient, next year mother will teach you how to masturbate with one of her vibrating sextoys."

Looking at the older Alice's fond memory of her first vaginal orgasm, the young Alice said, "Oh, yes, I know which toy you mean. It is one of my mother's favorites."

"She'll give it to you at your next synapexday celebration."

The young Alice pointed at Eddy and said, "He is shocked by the idea of children having orgasms."

Alice explained, "Poor Eddy did not get to grow up in a tryp'At society, he was stuck on Earth, living among puritanical humans who think sex is evil."

Eddy protested, "Don't tell her that. She'll never want to go to Earth."

The older Alice said, "I suppose it does not matter."

The young Alice said, "I see in your thoughts that you believe we are inside a simulation."

"Yes, we are. My advice is that you live your life with joy and do those things that you want to do."

Just then, Grean returned and was introduced to the younger Alice who had to carefully inspect Grean's  unusual anatomical features. Finally, Grean told the little girl, "That's enough. We are here on business."

"Business? You intend to use the teleportation system." The younger Alice took hold of the hand of the older Alice. Take me with you! It is so boring here."

Grean shifted them all from the backyard to the teleportation chamber. The young Alice asked, "Was that teleportation?"

Grean explained, "No, it was not teleportation that brought us here. I just altered our coordinated in this Simulation."

Eddy was examining the few small objects that were in the room, none of which were obvious controls for the teleporter system. The young Alice looked around the interior of the chamber and said, "Someone is here, hiding."

Kl'ath-Sedruth said, "I'm not hiding. If you do not wish to use the teleportation system then there is no reason for me to speak to you."

Eddy recognized the voice. "Kl'ath-Sedruth, what are you doing here?"

"I was asked to watch over this teleporter and make sure that is is not misused."

Grean asked, "So, just to be clear, there are no control nanites here for this equipment."

"Well, I am the control system and I'm composed of zeptites, but to your point, this is not like the Phari  base inside Phobos where Alice found the Phari teleportation control nanites."

The young Alice asked, "You've been to Phobos, the moon of Mars?"

The old Alice nodded, "Yes, but only in a Simulation such as this one."

The young Alice said, "Can't wait until I'm an adult and I'm allowed to do interesting things."

Eddy said, "Not everyone gets to meet a copy of themselves and an sedronite entity like Kl'ath-Sedruth. I did not even hear the word 'sedron' until I was fifty years old."

Alice looked at Eddy and said wonderingly, "You are fifty years old?"

Eddy had been placed into a young version of his tryp'At body for this Simulation. He explained, "My appearance was altered for the duration of this Simulation run. I'm actually an old man, eighty years old." Eddy told the young Alice, "Of course, I suppose I should expect you to be impatient with your life as a child; you seem very precocious."

Alice explained to Eddy, "Her mind was linked to mother's in utero. During tryp'At childhood, telepathy is used to boost the rate of cognitive development."

Right then, Balok returned, pretending to arrive via teleportation. The two copies of Alice were delighted by Balok's avian form. Eventually, after young Alice had been given two of Balok's feather to wear in her hair, Balok held up an arm and said, "Enough." He reminded the young Alice. "It is almost time for dinner." Balok turned to Eddy and said, "And it is time for you to return to your Reality."

Kl'ath-Sedruth told Balok, "You do not need to use Eddy as a messenger boy. When the time comes, I will tell Tyhry what must be done."

Balok told Kl'ath-Sedruth, "It is bumpha practice to keep our operatives as well informed as possible, within the constraints imposed by the forces of temporal paradox. Eddy, here is my message for Tyhry: when the time comes, bring Nym to Earth."

The older Alice, Grean and Eddy were sent back to Grean's workshop. Kl'ath-Sedruth told the young Alice: You asked about teleportation. I will now teleport you back home.

"Wait! Where are we? I will return after dinner."

Kl'ath-Sedruth said, "Sorry, but you must do your math problems and get to bed. Tomorrow is another day." Kl'ath-Sedruth sent Alice home and she arrive just before her mother called her in to dinner.

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Upon arriving back in Grean's workshop, Grean immediately teleported Eddy and Alice back to the Writers Block. Delpha was there pretending to use the Viewer attachment of the the workshop's Reality Simulation System. Delpha had an image of the young Alice on the screen being asked by her mother about the feathers in her hair. Alice was excited and unable to eat her dinner before telling her mother about Balok, but her memories of having met the older copy of herself had already been erased from her mind.

Alice's mother held up a hand. "Stop babbling about this big bird and eat your dinner. I suppose you made up this story rather than to your math problems."

The young Alice decided that it was probably wisest to not try to convince her mother that Balok was real. She said, "Yes mother," but now she was more eager that other to grow up and have the adventure of going to Earth.

Grean was not paying much attention to the young copy of Alice. She put her arms around Delpha and asked, "There was a temporal paradox that  prevented you from telling me about Balok."

Delpha kissed the tip of Grean's nose. "Yes, that was at the heart of the V 7.3 temporal paradox barrier. Now I can speak to you freely about Balok."

Grean said, "Spare me. Why would I want to hear you brag about your sexplay with that bird when you no longer consent to sexplay sessions with me?"

Delpha laughed. "You are jealous."

"I fell in love with you when we were children. It hurts me that you are no longer my lover."

Delpha said, "I don't want to come between you and Wendy."

"You can come with me anything you want. I still love you."

"And I love you."

Grean went to the Viewer and played back Delpha reciting her poem:

My dearest Upkhroknownst
My secret deep, so very deep,
From upwhen vistas, where the chronons sleep.
I saw our futures, intertwined and bright,
A V-Index spike, bathed in quantum light.....

Grean said, "What could it have mattered had I known about Balok. Who cares if both you and I got to ravish that bird? He means nothing to me."

Delpha giggled and asked, "What makes you think that was actually Balok?"

Delpha shrugged. "You know that there are artificial life forms who can change their physical form."

"Yes, but if that was not Balok, then who?"

Delpha said. "That is a mystery. Who could it have been that would have been able to trigger a V 7.3 temporal paradox barrier?"

But Manny was teasing Grean. Manny has memory-altering infites in Grean's Phari endosymbiont that would never allow Grean to guess the answer to the riddle. Manny had viewed Grean's future and knew it was for the best that the keep their relationship centered on business. Manny chuckled, knowing that she could always find new ways to have sexplay with Grean even if Grean did not know what was happening and even if sometimes Grean needed to be distracted by something as sill as a fake V 7.3 temporal paradox.

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Arriving back in the Commons of the Writers Block, Eddy and Alice found Tyhry and Vance seated at a table. Tyhry told Alice, "I'm just learning about your mission in the Asimov Reality."

Alice rested a hand on Vance's shoulder, "Don't believe anything he tells you. Everything he knows about my life, I told him."

Vance chuckled and patted Alice's hand where it rested on his shoulder, "She always makes things up to embellish any story."

Tyhry rose to her feet and put an arm around Eddy. After looking into his recent memories she asked him, "You had sex with Alice on a swing?"

"She was on a swing, I had both feet on the ground. It is unfair that you are blocking me from looking at your recent memories."

"There is nothing you need to concern yourself with. Vance is always a perfect gentleman. He gave me three perfect orgasms in less than an hour."

Vance said, "If you are counting then remember, you need to return for another visit. I had four orgasms, so I still owe you one."

Eddy popped himself and Tyhry out of the Simulation and they arrived back at home. Tyhry asked, "What is this, who is Nym?"

Eddy sat at his computer and began a search of the bookmarks data file of the Reality Simulation System. "I don't know. I thought maybe you would know, but I guess you don't."

Tyhry was watching Zeta and Anthony who were out playing in the tub. Tyhry was already dissolving her clothing nanites and heading for the back door, "Let me know if you find anything."

Delpha and Grean

_____the end_____

Note: the character Nymerya Coryn (A.K.A 'Nym') was a follow-on character inspired by Systolina from "The Nanite Smuggler" and Nym appeared as a character in other stories such as Vythoth the Chresmoscopist and the Mosy Saga. The events in Part 3 of "Someday Mars" (above) are set before Tyhry ever hears from Systolina about her personal conflict with Nym.

Next: Part 4 of The Cythyrya Investigation.

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