Carmel By The Sea

Storybook cover image by Gemini.

 Below on this blog page is Chapter 7 of a science fiction story titled "The Trinity Intervention".

Previously in Chapter 6 of "The Trinity Intervention", Eddy, Zeta, Marda and Tyhry agreed to use the Reality Simulation System to visit the Tatlock beach house in California in 1939, just weeks before the beginning of World War II.

Eddy has developed the suspicion that Oppenheimer might have been a time traveler from the future, his body composed of zeptite components that were too small for 8ME to detect.

Marda seems eager to enter the Reality Simulation System and have her body converted into a femtobot replicoid copy of her biological self. Qua the Grendel is hoping that the Sedruth entity will soon report that Nyrtia has finally emerged form the Reality Simulation System.

Chapter 7 of "The Trinity Intervention" (Chapter 1)(Chapter 2)(Chapter 3)(Chapter 4)(Chapter 5)(Chapter 6)

 Eddy turned his attention back to his computer, where the interface to the Reality Simulation System glowed softly. "All right. Sedruth, take us to that beach house in July 1939."

"Specify the exact date and time," Sedruth requested.

Portal to the 1939 Simulation.

Zeta told Sedruth. "You can see it in my mind: July 14th, 1939. Four o'clock in the afternoon. The Tatlock beach house on the coast..... Carmel-by-the-Sea. My father and Oppenheimer were already there when I arrived, along with Elizabeth and my brother Hugh."

Sedruth said. “I have made the necessary arrangements. You will arrive inside the Simulation and find yourselves inside a Hertz rental car, just a short distance from the beach house.”

The portal of the Reality Simulation System appeared near Eddy's desk. Through it, they could see a red 1939 Chrysler New Yorker, parked in a driveway. The portal pulsed, reached out and grabbed hold of Eddy, Zeta, Marda, Tyhry and Pepper the cat. Arriving inside the parked New Yorker with Pepper still cradled in her arm, Tyhry said, “Ha! Even Pepper got to come along.”

Eddy found himself in the front seat with 8ME (playing the role of Jean) to his left. To her left was a man who looked familiar. He said, “I'll have you to the Tatlock residence in just a minute. Sit back and enjoy the ride.”

8ME asked the driver, “Garuda? Garuda Crow?”

“At your service, as always.”

Eddy asked, “Garuda? How did you...”

Tyhry & Pepper inside the New Yorker.

Garuda explained. “This is me, Sedruth. I drove this car down here from the car rental facility in San Francisco.” He started the car's engine and drove from the driveway into the street.

“Sedruth!” Eddy asked, “That was you in New York in 1947?”

“No, I'm just using the Garuda Crow pattern. I found Garuda in 8ME's memory and decided I could use his physical form here in 1939 for this run of the Simulator. I've provided some props to give the appearance of a party from San Francisco arriving at the Monterey peninsula for a weekend stay.”

Garuda drove up the driveway that led to the Tatlock beach house. The car pulled to a stop. Garuda and Eddy went to the trunk and started pulling out suitcases. Eddy saw a man come out of the house, approach 8ME and hug her while asking, “What is going on? I expected you to arrive alone.”

8ME, playing the role of Jean Tatlock, performed introductions and explained to her brother that Eddy was a colleague who had wanted to get his two children out of the city for a few days. “So I offered to bring them along. Eddy is interested in socialism.”

Figure 1. Tyhry and 8ME
(as Jean) by Mr. Wombo.

Garuda had taken two big suitcases to the door of the house and was chatting up Jean's father, John. Now Jean ran to her father and they hugged. 8ME performed the introductions again for her father, introducing Eddy as a fellow medical student from Stanford, a single father—his wife having died two years previously. “Eddy needed a break and I invited him and his daughters to join us for the weekend.”

Garuda took Pepper from Tyhry. “I'll watch Pepper. He won't enjoy being inside with strangers, particularly the dog.”

Tyhry began to protest, but she saw that Garuda was scratching Pepper's ears, just the way he liked it. She watched Garuda walk out into the lawn and set Pepper down. Pepper did a flip and began rolling in the grass.

Soon the four investigators of the past were all in a sunlit room with large windows overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The sound of waves hitting the shore was audible, along with the cry of seagulls. The air smelled of salt and the faint scent of eucalyptus.

John Tatlock brought drinks from the kitchen. He handed a cool glass to Eddy and said, "I'm sorry for the loss of your wife, Dr. Watson. I've recently moved on to my second wife, so I offer advice; don't let yourself live in the past.” 

Eddy grinned and said, "I'll do my best to follow your advice, but in my profession, I'm something of a sleuth, investigating the past."

Figure 2. Robert from the beach.

"And I'm sure your patients appreciate your investigative skill... helping them understand what went wrong in their lives." John looked around at all the new faces. “You're all welcome here, although I wish Jean could have given some warning... we might run out of food."

"Eddy said,"Thank you for your hospitality. Jean spoke very highly of this place. My driver, Garuda, will pick up any supplies that we may need."

Arriving in the house after a walk on the beach was J. Robert Oppenheimer, who wore shorts and a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up. He took off his straw hat and stared at the newcomers with an expression that was difficult to read.

"Robert," 8ME said warmly, moving to him. "I'd like you to meet some friends of mine."

8ME (Jean) and Robert.

Oppenheimer's gaze fixed on 8ME's face, then slid past her to Tyhry. His eyes widened slightly. He took 8ME's extended hand but continued staring at Tyhry. "Interesting," he murmured. "Very interesting."

Eddy felt a chill. Could Oppenheimer sense something about them? Something that marked them as not truly belonging to this time? He examined his daughter, who was wearing a sweater to protect herself against the chill air-conditioned room temperature that Eddy preferred during the heat of Arizona summers.

"Robert, are you all right?" 8ME asked.

Oppenheimer blinked and seemed to return to himself. "Yes, of course. Forgive me. I was thinking about something else." He released 8ME's hand and extended his own to Eddy. "Robert Oppenheimer. I teach physics at Berkeley and Caltech."

"Eddy Watson." Playing his role as a medical student, he said, "I try to teach patients to take care of themselves, but I have a keen interest in physics."

Oppenheimer's grip was firm but brief. "What aspect of physics interests you?"

"Most recently, I've taken an interest the dimensional structure of the universe and the nature of time, but on the drive down from San Francisco, Jean and I discussed your work on nuclear reactions. Nuclear fission research seems ripe for rapid progress. I'm intrigued by the work that Hahn and Strassmann published earlier this year."

"You have odd tastes for a medical student."

"In my first career I was a research scientist."

 "A fellow scientist, eh?" A spark of interest lit in Oppenheimer's eyes. "Those uranium experiments have extraordinary implications. Meitner and Frisch's interpretation of experimental results as being indicative of nuclear fission opened up the field of study."

John Tatlock cleared his throat. "Well, since we have more guests than expected, I should warn Elizabeth.” He asked Robert, “Did you see her on the beach with Hugh?"

“Yes, I passed them just now on my way in. I suggested that they come inside; they are both sunburned.”

Eddy said, "I'm rather warm myself. I did not expect it to be so hot here on the coast. I'm used to always being cold in San Francisco. When we headed south, there was a cool marine layer and fog.”

"You came far enough south to get into our Santa Ana conditions." John told his daughter, "Jeannie, why don't you take Eddy and the girls upstairs and find them something cooler to wear. I'll take them out on the beach when I search for my wife. Maybe some of Hugh's summer clothing will fit Eddy."

Tyhry and 8ME by Gemini.

"Of course." 8ME gestured toward a staircase. "This way."

As they climbed the stairs, Eddy whispered, "Did you see how Oppenheimer looked at Tyhry?"

"He sensed something," 8ME murmured back. "Tyhry's femtozoan is active, in the same backwards mode as Robert's."

When they reached the second floor, Tyhry grabbed 8ME's arm and even as she struggled to get used to Zeta having the appearance of another woman, he said, "Mom, what was that downstairs? Oppenheimer was staring at me. I could tell that he took an instant interest in me."

"He's sensing hierions being transmitted by your femtozoan," 8ME explained quietly. "You and he have similar genetic patterns—that allows for conscious integration with femtozoan activity. During the past three years, he's been gradually learning to interpret the hierion signals that my femtozoan broadcasts. Now he's detecting similar signals from you, and it's confusing him."

Figure 3. Image by Mr. Wombo.

 8ME found some of Jean's old swimwear and handed it to Marda and Tyhry. “You'll be more comfortable in these. This house has no air conditioning and we are in a hot Santa Ana wind pattern. You can go out on the beach with John, maybe take a dip.”

Marda asked, "Will the telepathic link between Robert and Tyhry ruin the Simulation?"

"No. Robert can sense the fringe of Tyhry's mind, but I have infites in his brain that prevent him from speaking openly about telepathy. This Simulation will accommodate our presence for a short time."

Eddy had removed his heavy shirt and pulled on a much thinner shirt that belonged to Hugh. "How long do we have before the 1939 version of you arrives?"

8ME estimated, "About an hour and forty minutes. Let's go back downstairs. I want you to have a chance to speak with Oppenheimer."

They returned to the living room to find Oppenheimer standing alone by the windows, staring out at the ocean. He turned when he heard them descending the stairs.

Robert and Eddy at the beech house.

"Dr. Watson," Oppenheimer said. "You mentioned an interest in fission. What specifically intrigues you about the phenomenon?"

Eddy moved to join him at the window. "The energy release, primarily. The amount of energy liberated when a uranium nucleus splits is enormous compared to chemical reactions. It suggests practical applications."

"Practical applications." Oppenheimer's tone was neutral. "Such as?"

"Power generation, obviously. And I've been thinking about thermonuclear reactions in the context of stars ever since I read "Atomic Generator" by Campbell back in '37 and was awakened to the mysteries of stellar physics and the incredible amounts of atomic energy created inside the Sun. If we could harness that kind of power source here on Earth..." Eddy threw up his hands excitedly.

Oppenheimer was silent for a long moment. When he spoke again, his voice was distant. "I've been having dreams lately. Visions, almost. Of vast energies released. Of destructive forces beyond anything humanity has yet created."

Tyhry and "Jean" (8ME).

"That sounds disturbing."

"Disturbing and enlightening. I've come to believe..." Oppenheimer paused, as if weighing whether to continue. "This will sound strange."

"I study abnormal psychology. I'm interested in strange ideas," Eddy assured him.

Oppenheimer glanced toward the kitchen, where John Tatlock could be heard speaking to Marda as they prepared lemonade. Robert lowered his voice. "I believe there are forces—intelligences—guiding humanity. Not in a direct way, but subtly, through inspiration and insight. I've felt their presence most strongly when I'm with Jean."

Eddy's pulse quickened. "What kind of forces?"

"I think of them as a trinity." Oppenheimer's eyes took on a faraway look. "Three levels of astounding intelligence. The highest are the creators—beings who shaped humanity itself, who designed us for purposes we might never comprehend. Below them are the shepherds, who guide civilization's development, who ensure we move along the correct path. Those shepherds are interventionists, who occasionally adjust specific events in the lives of people such as me."

Eddy and Robert.

"That's quite a cosmology," Eddy said carefully. "If I interpreted what you just said from the perspective of my profession, I'd say that you are paranoid and delusional. Where do these ideas come from... Jean?"

"From Jean, though she doesn't admit it and seems not to realize it. She is a conduit, Dr. Watson. When I'm near her, I receive... knowledge. Glimpses of truths that no human should know." Oppenheimer turned from the window to face Eddy directly. "You're a man of science. You must think I'm mad."

"Not at all. You are not my patient. What you're describing, your interpretation of your experience might simply differ from the objective reality that I know. However, I know that I am vastly ignorant. You are a brilliant physicist... I'm sure I could not understand most of your work even if you had the patience to teach it to me."

Oppenheimer's eyebrows rose. "You believe me?"

Eddy and Robert

"I believe you're experiencing something genuine. Whether it's divine inspiration or something else entirely... that's an open question. I love the fact that there is mystery in life!"

From across the room, Tyhry had been watching this exchange. Now she moved closer. "Mr. Oppenheimer, when you receive knowledge from Jean, what form does it take? Dream visions? Words? Feelings?"

Oppenheimer studied Tyhry with that same intense focus he'd shown when they first arrived. "You feel it too, don't you? You have the gift."

Tyhry glanced at 8ME uncertainly. "I... I'm not sure what you mean."

"There's a resonance between us. Faint, but present. Not as strong as what I experience with Jean, but similar in nature." Oppenheimer took a step toward Tyhry. "How long have you been aware of it? This ability to sense thoughts that aren't your own?"

Tyhry and Robert

"Only recently," Tyhry admitted. "I'm still learning to understand it."

"Then allow me to share what I've learned." Oppenheimer's voice took on a lecturing quality, the tone of a professor addressing a student. "The knowledge arrives as impressions—images, concepts, sometimes fragments of memory that couldn't possibly be mine. When I'm near Jean, it's like tuning a radio receiver. At first there's only static, but gradually signals emerge from the noise. I've learned to focus my attention, to select certain frequencies over others."

"And what have you learned?" Eddy asked. "From these signals?"

Oppenheimer returned his gaze to the ocean. "I've learned that we are not alone. That we have never been alone. That humanity's entire history has been carefully orchestrated by something beyond my comprehension." He paused. "And I've learned that terrible choices lie ahead. That some of us will be called upon to create weapons of unprecedented destructive power. That we will usher in an age where humanity possesses the means of its own annihilation."

The room fell silent except for the distant sound of waves. Marda was now passing out drinks and she said. "Knowing what's coming. I worry about war in Europe."

Figure 4. Generated by Gemini.

John announced, "I'm going to find my wife and let her know that we have extra guests."

8ME said, "We'll go with you." John, 8ME, Tyhry and Marda exited from the house and went towards the beach. They descended the wooden steps from the beach house to the sand. 

The afternoon sun was warm, and a steady hot breeze carried the salt spray from crashing waves out to sea rather than into their eyes. Tyhry and Marda took off running toward the water, laughing.

"Your friend's children seem energetic," John observed.

John and Jean (8ME)

"They're wonderful," 8ME said. 

She watched Marda wade into the surf, gesturing for Tyhry to follow. Even from this distance, she could see Marda demonstrating body positions, explaining how to read the waves. Tyhry was hesitant at first, but then a wave came and Marda showed her how to catch it, her body sliding smoothly across the water's surface.

Freedom, 8ME thought. They're experiencing pure freedom, the joy of being young and alive and playing in the ocean. And I...

She turned to her father, feeling a reckless impulse rise within her. For centuries, she'd been so careful. Every word measured, every action calculated. But here, in this Simulation, none of it mattered. 

Marda and Tyhry

This John Tatlock was just data, a perfect recreation that would dissolve when they left. She could say anything. Do anything.

"Father, I've been thinking about your work. About Chaucer."

John's face brightened. He loved nothing more than discussing his scholarly passions. "Have you? I'm delighted. What about Chaucer?"

"The Canterbury Tales specifically. Chaucer's decision to write in English rather than French was pivotal for English literature."

"Indeed. Had he chosen French—the prestige language of the court—English might never have developed as a literary language at all."

8ME paused, watching another wave carry Marda and Tyhry toward shore, their delighted shrieks carried on the wind. They're so free. When was the last time I felt that way? When I was first created? Before my first mission?

"What if it wasn't his decision?" she asked abruptly.

John glanced at her, puzzled. "What do you mean?"

"What if someone influenced him? Convinced him to write in English when he would have naturally chosen French?" 8ME could feel the fish nosing on on her bait. "What if his wife, Philippa, had been the decisive factor?"

John chuckled. "Well, wives can sometimes influence their husbands, however in this case..." 

John considered the possible consequences of The Canterbury Tales being written in French, not English. He did not believe that Philippa was involved in Chaucer's decisions about how to write. "But Jean, we have no evidence that Philippa Chaucer had any particular interest in the English language as opposed to—"

"But what if she did? What if she had a specific agenda? What if she had been placed there, positioned deliberately to influence that one crucial decision?" 8ME watched her John's face carefully, enjoying his growing confusion.

"Placed? By whom? Jean, you're speaking as if there were some conspiracy—"

Marda by WOMBO Dream.

"Not a conspiracy, Dad. Call it a well-planed Intervention." 8ME laughed, the sound carrying on the sea breeze. Down the beach, Marda had Tyhry attempting to body surf again, and this time Tyhry caught the wave perfectly, riding it almost to shore before tumbling into the shallows, emerging with her arms raised in triumph.

Yes, 8ME thought. Exactly like that. The freedom to try, to fail, to succeed without consequence.

"An intervention by whom?" John was indulging her now, his tone patient but bemused.

"Oh, I don't know. Space aliens, perhaps?" 8ME grinned at John's startled expression. "Think about it. What if beings from another world came to Earth with the specific purpose of ensuring that English developed as a literary language? What if they needed English to evolve in a particular way?"

"Jean, that's quite absurd." But John was smiling, treating this as an intellectual game. "Why would space aliens care about Middle English literature?"

"Maybe they needed English to be flexible enough, rich enough, to eventually become the language of science fiction. The language of stories about space travel, time travel, alien contact." 8ME was warming to her theme now, imagining that she might find a way to effectively speak of such things to everyone on Earth. "What if the entire development of English literature from Chaucer forward was guided by extraterrestrial intelligence? Or if you can't wrap your head around aliens, pick something else... maybe advanced robots from the far future... time travelers."

John laughed outright. "My dear, you've been working too hard. This sounds like one of those pulp magazines Robert is always reading. Science fiction, they call it."

"Science fiction is fun... mind expanding. Consider; if aliens could travel between stars, surely scientists on Earth of the far future could learn how to travel through time. They could move backward through history, making small adjustments, ensuring that civilization developed along the path they desired."

"Your time travelers don't sit with me any more comfortably than do imaginary space aliens." John shook his head, still amused. "What would be the point of traveling from the far future to our miserable era?"

"The point..." 8ME paused, watching Marda and Tyhry collapse on the sand, exhausted and happy. What would it be like to be that carefree? To not carry the weight of centuries, the knowledge of thousands of interventions? "The point would be to create a literature that could imagine time travel so vividly, so compellingly, that when the technology was actually developed, humans would already have cautionary tales. Stories about the dangers and paradoxes. They would have 'The Time Machine' and 'The End of Eternity' to warn them."

John frowned. "I know the famous Wells time travel story, of course. But what is 'The End of Eternity'? I'm not familiar with that title."

8ME said, "You know how Chaucer wrote about eternal life everlasting. Why is the concept of Eternity so popular in religions? Why not also in science fiction? I was thinking someone should write a time travel story called 'The End of Eternity.' A tale about what happens when even Eternity itself can be altered or destroyed."

"That's quite a concept," John said thoughtfully. "How could time travel technology threaten eternity itself? Rather theological for science fiction, isn't it, or are you going to try to make my head spin with some temporal paradox?"

"Don't fight me every inch, father. Chaucer mixed the Earthly and the Eternal quite effectively. Why shouldn't modern writers do the same?" 8ME felt her confidence growing. Somehow she and Eddy would have to learn to speak to people and make them believe in time travel. "Imagine a story where time travelers can change history so completely that they erase their own existence. Where tampering with time doesn't just alter events, but threatens the very fabric of Reality."

"You should discuss this with Robert. He might enjoy the idea." John smiled. "I thought you wanted to discuss Chaucer's writing, not crazy science fiction story plots."

"I'm just... playing with ideas. Imagine it, though. Imagine that we're not actually in control of our own history. That every major development in Western civilization was carefully orchestrated by intelligences we can't even comprehend."

"Well, if you ask me to take that possibility seriously, I must say that's a rather disturbing thought."

"Is it? Or might it be comforting?" 8ME gestured toward the ocean, where waves continued their eternal rhythm. "Maybe we're all like Tyhry and Marda down there, riding waves we don't fully understand. We think we're making choices, but really we're just responding to forces much larger than ourselves."

"Jean, you're beginning to sound like Robert with his mystical trinity talk."

If only you knew, 8ME thought. If only you knew that Robert is accessing my memories telepathically, that he's sensing the actual truth about the forces that guide humanity.

"What if Robert is right?" she pressed. "What if there really is a hierarchy of intelligences? The creators who designed us, the shepherds who guide our development, the interventionists who adjust specific events?"

John was no longer smiling. "This kind of talk... Jean, it undermines human agency. It suggests we're puppets, that human accomplishments aren't really our own."

"But what if we are puppets? Very sophisticated puppets, granted. Puppets who believe they're making free choices. Would that make our experiences any less real? Our achievements any less meaningful?" 8ME felt an insight about human emotion—something that might be a wedge into human defenses against belief in time travel. "If Chaucer was influenced to write in English, does that make The Canterbury Tales any less brilliant? If Shakespeare was guided to explore certain themes, do his plays become less profound?"

"You're talking about determinism taken to an extreme."

Image by Gemini.

"I'm talking about something beyond determinism. I'm talking about deliberate design." 8ME turned back toward the beach house. She'd pushed this little experiment as far as she could. Any further and John would seriously worry about her mental state. "But you're right, Father. It's an absurd speculation. Aliens and time travelers influencing Chaucer. Ridiculous."

They walked in silence for a moment. Then John said quietly, "You know, there are scholars who believe that we can never truly know the past. That history is always filtered through the biases of those who record it. Maybe the truth is stranger than we imagine."

Much stranger, 8ME thought. Much, much stranger.

8ME sent a telepathic signal to Tyhry, calling her off of the beach. Marda and Tyhry returned to the house, their swimsuits drying quickly in the hot wind, their faces flushed with UV damage, exertion and joy. As they approached, Tyhry called out, "That was amazing! I'm finally figuring out how to body surf!"

"I could tell you were having fun," 8ME said, and felt a pang of something that might have been envy. When had she last felt that kind of uncomplicated joy? Before her first mission to 1340? In some previous identity that she'd long since left behind?

"Ah, my wife is already here, we need not have gone searching for her," John said. "Elizabeth will need to alter her dinner plans to accommodate these hungry surfers. I worry about leaving Robert alone with Eddy too long. Robert tends to talk about... unusual subjects... and unlike you, Eddy has not had several years to get used to that."

You have no idea, Zeta thought.

They climbed the wooden steps back to the house. Through the windows, Zeta could see Eddy and Oppenheimer still deep in conversation, papers spread across the coffee table between them. Hugh was visible in the kitchen, helping Elizabeth with dinner preparations.

It all looked so normal. So real. So much like the actual 1939 that 8ME had lived through, before.

John and 8ME return inside.

But it wasn't real. It was a Simulation. John paused at the door. "Jean, that conversation we had... about aliens and time travelers influencing history. You were joking, weren't you?"

Zeta met her father's eyes and smiled. "Of course, Father. Just entertaining wild hypotheticals. Why should Robert have all the fun?"

"Good. You had me worried for a moment." He squeezed her shoulder affectionately. "You're a brilliant girl, Jeannie. But don't let your imagination run too wild. Stay grounded in reality."

Reality, Zeta thought as they entered the house. If only you knew how relative that concept was.

The back door opened. John Tatlock entered the kitchen and inspected his wife and his son, Hugh, both windburned and sunburned.

John performed introductions. "Elizabeth, Hugh, meet Tyhry and Marda. Jean brought a friend from school, Eddy."

John and Elizabeth.

"I met Eddy." Elizabeth Goodrich Tatlock smiled warmly at the newcomers. She still wore a broad sunhat and she was almost wearing a simple summer dress that had slid downwards, exposing ample expanses of her breasts. She had clearly been walking on the beach—there was sand on her bare feet. She took 8ME's hand. "How wonderful to see you! I'm Elizabeth."

Hugh Tatlock nodded curtly at the strangers and headed for the stairs. "I'm going to put some lotion on my cooked skin. I fear I stayed outside too long."

Elizabeth said, "He should have worn a hat. The Santa Ana really kicked in while we were out there."

8ME was looking down into the dark space between Elizabeth's two large breasts. "Elizabeth, it's so good to finally meet you. Father has written about you in his letters."

"All good things, I hope." Elizabeth finally took off her hat. "I know how busy you are with your studies and clinic work... I'm glad you could get away from that for the weekend. Well, let's see... I'll have to prepare a larger dinner than I'd originally planned. Tyhry, Marda,  can you help me? I could use some assistance."

Tyhry opened her mouth to protest, but Marda agreed quickly. "We'd be happy to help, Mrs. Tatlock."

"Please, call me Elizabeth. We're not formal here." She gestured toward the pantry. "Come along. I'll put you to work."

END Chapter 7

Jump to: (Chapter 8)(Chapter 9) 

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Robert Oppenheimer by Gemini.

Process the file that I just uploaded. Create a science fiction storybook for adults with illustrations of events from Chapter 7 of the science fiction story “The Trinity Intervention”. Make the illustrations in the storybook photo-realistic and they should resemble full color high resolution movie stills.

Gemini: I've created a science fiction storybook for adults that visually captures the events of Chapter 7 of "The Trinity Intervention" using photo-realistic, high-resolution movie-still-like illustrations. Please note that the story may not be 100% faithful to the uploaded file.

I used the Gemini-generated storybook images to illustrate Chapter 7, above on this blog page (for example, see Figure 2, above and see also the image to the right). However, some of the images by Gemini that are shown on this page were from two other storybooks, 1) one that had a mix of images for Chapters 6-10 (for example, see Figure 1, above on this page) and 2) another storybook that was generated specifically for the beach scene that is described on this blog page (for example, see Figure 4). The appearance of the same characters is quite different in those two sets of images.

Also, there are two images on this page that was generated by WOMBO Dream (for example, see Figure 3, above).

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