Wiki Fiction: Station Y

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Below on this page is Chapter 1 of a new science fiction story titled "Plūribus ē Spatium". In my previous blog post, I had a discussion with Claude about the English language translation of the Latin pluribus e spatium. In my mind, it means "many from space". The meaning of this 'many' is not revealed until Chapter 2 of the story.

In May of this year, I used "long-range teleportation" in the context of teleportation taking place across distances of less than 1,000,000 miles. However, in the Exode Saga, there is also interstellar teleportation and it is in that grander range of trans-galactic travel (>10,000,000,000,000 miles) that Tyhry intends to make use of the alien teleportation device that is below Picacho Peak for "Plūribus ē Spatium".

"Plūribus ē Spatium" is intended to be a stand-alone story, but you might want to read about the origins of the HySe.

Chapter 1 - Infite Extraction

The HySe uses sedron fuel for interstellar travel.

Tyhry had just returned to Earth after the latest exploration of nearby star systems by the interstellar spacecraft HySe. Having solved the sedron fuel shortage that initially had limited the usefulness of HySe, there was now nothing keeping Earth's first interstellar space cruiser at home except for the sad fact that Tyhry had failed to find a habitable exoplanet close to Earth.

Tyhry strongly suspected that there actually were other inhabited worlds of the Final Reality besides Earth, but finding them was not easy. The HySe had now visited a dozen nearby stars that, in past Realities, did have inhabited worlds, but in the Final Reality, those stars did not even have Earth-like planets.

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Feeling deflated, Tyhry decided to return to her childhood home, Casanay, and visit her parents. First, her replicoid copy who was usually stationed on Earth arrived at Observer Base, being teleported from Arizona to Observer Base by the short-range teleportation equipment that existed at Observer Base. That replicoid and Tyhry immediately formed a synapex linkage and exchanged their recent memories. Tyhry reverted the configuration of her femtobot components to the conventional human body form that her parents were comfortable with.

Then, having teleported from Observer Base to Earth, Tyhry found herself in her bedroom suite inside Casanay. After a quick look around her bedroom and brief immersion in the abandoned items of her childhood, Tyhry walked slowly down the hallway to the great-room. Tyhry's arrival and telepathic greeting was noticed by her parents, both of whom had some weak telepathic ability.

When Tyhry walked into the great-room, Eddy turned his head, nodded at Tyhry and then he continued with is current writing project at his old computer workstation. From her parent's perspective, Tyhry's absence had not been of major concern since, as usual, one of Tyhry's replicoid copies had remained there on Earth while Tyhry was away. Busy with his writing and research for his current writing project, Eddy had not even noticed any significant difference between Tyhry's replicoid copy and the actual copy of Tyhry.

However, Tyhry's mother, Zeta noticed a change in Tyhry's telepathic mind pattern. Zeta was in the big recliner close to Eddy's computer workstation, waiting rather impatiently while he typed furiously on his keyboard. Zeta asked Tyhry, "What's wrong, dear?"

Tyhry flopped on the couch that was by the front window. Tyhry admitted, "I've reached one of those awkward points in my life when I need to think."

Zeta giggled and commented, "Not even you can always instinctively know what to do. What problem is Manny tormenting you with today?"

Tyhry emitted a sad, quiet groan. "I hope this has nothing to do with Manny." Tyhry thought of herself as Manny's star pupil. "I'd hate for her to see me like this, floundering like an imbecile."

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After one last glance at Eddy, who seemed oblivious to what Tyhry had just said, Zeta suggested to her daughter, "Let's take a soak." Zeta popped up out of her chair and set aside her laptop. "I can always think more clearly after I melt my tense muscles and relax."

Tyhry said, "Fine." She got of the couch and quickly pulled off her clothing. As Tyhry departed from the house and went out back to the hot tub that was on the patio, Zeta was arguing with Eddy about him taking a break from his writing. Tyhry was in the hot tub for a minute before Eddy and Zeta arrived and joined her.

Having settled into the hot bubbling water, Eddy said, "Zeta tells me you need help with a problem."

Tyhry darted an accusatory glance at Zeta and then told her father, "I never said that. And even if it is true, I would not admit it." Tyhry had been well trained to solve her own problems.

Eddy laughed and said, "It always cheers my heart to be reminded that you are as stubborn as I am."

"I just enjoy solving my own problems, dad." Even then, Tyhry was expecting no help from her parents. Tyhry could telepathically sense that Zeta had her own reason for dragging Eddy into the hot tub and Eddy was still intent on getting into print what he had learned during his recent visit to Observer Base.

Zeta suggested, "Maybe we can distract you. Sometimes it is only by looking away from something that we can use the peripheral vision of our unconscious to see what is right in front of us."

The Phari.

Tyhry was trying not to be distracted by her telepathic sense which just then was making it quite clear that under the frothing surface of the bubbling water in the hot tub, Zeta was using one of her feet to rub and stimulate Eddy's genitals. Eddy said, "I thought you were going to be away from Earth for a while, performing another exploration using HySe."

No longer capable of being surprised by Eddy's cluelessness, which arose from his intense concentration on his own personal affairs, Tyhry said, "Yes, daddy, I have been away for the past two weeks. I just got back. This most recent exploration of near space was another failure. It appears that all the nearby habitable planets that existed in past Realities were artificial worlds created by the Phari and they simply do not exist here in our universe." Chilled by her experience of the vast emptiness of space, Tyhry gave an involuntary shudder. "Here in the Final Reality, Earth is a far lonelier place than it was in Deep Time."

Eddy suggested, "The Huaoshy may hope that humans simply transcend into the Sedron Domain and exist as artificial life-forms rather than concern themselves with spreading through the galaxy and biologically contaminating every habitable exoplanet they can find."

Manny the bumpha; in human
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"I'd accept transcendence and that fate for humanity, except for the fact that my visions of the future tell me that biological humans will get to have wonderful adventures in space, visiting new worlds." Tyhry again thought about the vision of the planet where there were tryp'At clones, that future vision that was so often in her thoughts. "The tryp'At were brought into the Final Reality for a reason. I must learn what the bumpha expect we tryp'At to accomplish. Manny has put a lot of effort into training me and I have to believe there is a way for me to discover the location of the tryp'At planet that I have seen in my vision." Tyhry glanced at her father and both his facial expression and his telepathic mind pattern indicated that he was not listening to Tyhry.

Zeta stood up and told Tyhry, "I thank you for providing an excuse to chase Eddy off of his computer. Now, I'm going to take advantage of this opportunity." She pulled Eddy to his feet and dragged him out of the hot tub and took him off to their master bedroom suite.

Manny in alien form. Image generated by Leonardo.

Tyhry had become quite sexually aroused while telepathically watching her mother sexually stimulate Eddy. Zeta's foot had easily induced in Eddy a magnificent penile erection and then she had marched him off to bed, leaving Tyhry alone in the hot tub. Tyhry well knew that Zeta's favorite motto was that no erection should be wasted.

Now alone in the hot tub and fingering her own stiff erectile tissue, Tyhry thought about calling Anthony to the hot tub, but then Manny the bumpha appeared, casually seated in the hot tub across from Tyhry. Startled, Tyhry exclaimed, "Manny!"

Manny was carefully keeping her amazing nanite-generated hair from getting wet in the water of the hot tub. Even when a strand was below the surface of the water, it was protected by a repulsive nanite-generated zone of dryness. "I sense that you are now convinced that it will not be easy to find Tiz." While speaking, Manny was also using her advanced medical nanites to revert Tyhry's body to its natural for, that of a tryp'At hermaphrodite.

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"Tiz?" Noticing that Manny was shifting her body towards the form that Manny preferred, that of a tryp'At hermaphrodite complete with four breasts, two vaginas and a penis, Tyhry glance towards the house and blocked her telepathic linkage to her parents.

"Yes." Manny explained, "The world you are thinking about right now. The world of your future vision... the world of the tryp'At clones."

Tyhry mused, "So... that planet is called Tiz." Tyhry had long puzzled over this particular future vision without knowing the name or location of the world that seemed to be populated only by tryp'At and not conventional humans. The idea, that somewhere in the galaxy there was such a habitable exoplanet, fascinated Tyhry and motivated her exploration of star systems by means of HySe. Tyhry quietly murmured, "I suppose you could tell me the names of those clones, too."

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"I could. Doing so would be particularly easy since they all share and use a mononym."

"Really? How odd! I would have been willing to bet that any tryp'At would be an egotistical person and quite unwilling to share their name with others."

Manny sighed. "You had a deprived childhood, Tyhry, for which I ask your forgiveness. Imagine if you had grow up with seven clone sisters and had always been sharing constant telepathic linkages to their minds. Your sense of self would have been expanded and distributed over the entire set of clone sisters."

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Her body having been re-formed in its natural tryp'At shape, Tyhry began fondling her two lower breasts that were under the surface of the water. While struggling to imagine life as a member of a set of telepathically-linked clones, Tyhry began to fantasize about having sisters who all had the lower tryp'At pair of breasts that made the tryp'At sex hormone oxypathin. Then, suddenly, with Manny at work altering Tyhry's neural networks, Tyhry was quite certain that the solution to her problems was waiting inside her father. She told herself: so close, yet so far. She asked Manny, "Why does everything have to be so complicated?"

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Manny giggled and said enigmatically, "I've pushed human biological evolution along as quickly as I could. However, that has in turn triggered bizarre patterns of social evolution that work against me."

Tyhry began thinking about one of her father's favorite authors and how Isaac Asimov had imagined a science of the dynamics of human society and a mathematical system that could predict the future. She muttered, "I don't know what you are talking about, but I hope it does not mean I need to spend four years getting an advanced sociology degree."

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Manny shook her head. "I would not put you through that. I made sure you grew up with a mother who taught you how to work around the restrictions of social conventions and absurd behavioral taboos. Where there is a will there is a way, even if misguided social police frown upon people doing it that way."

Tyhry still did not know what Manny was talking about, but it occurred to Tyhry to wonder about the conditions under which Manny herself had grown up. "What about you, Manny? What was your childhood like?"

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"Oh, my! What a strange question! I like to think that I am still in my childhood." Manny giggled. "However, I understand what you are thinking, my dear. But you should realize that my existence cannot be traced back to any single place and time. As an artificial life-form, a bumpha, I claim many source threads as being integral to the entity you know as Manny. For example..." Manny re-arranged her zeptite components and took on the shape of a very alien creature that emerged from the water of the hot tub and hovered above Tyhry.

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Tyhry tried not to reveal the revulsion she felt at the mere sight of Manny's new physical form. Long ago, Tyhry had read "The Gods Themselves" by Isaac Asimov and the physical form Manny had shifted herself to reminded Tyhry of how she had imagined the Soft Ones in Asimov's story. Tyhry complained to Manny, "I don't know if you are serious or if you are teasing me."

Manny moved across the hot tub and snuggled up against Tyhry's body. Now using a physical form that had no mouth or vocal apparatus, Manny telepathically told Tyhry: Just as I suspected, lover. Your love for me only goes skin deep.

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Tyhry attempted and apology. "Humans are instinctively repulsed by some types of creatures."

Well, I could use my infites to reprogram your responses.

"Please don't bother. I like my current programming." Rather disgusted by how the very alien-appearing Manny was attempting to push some hideous alien appendages into both her front and back vaginas, Tyhry pushed Manny away.

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Manny changed her form and asked: Maybe you prefer this form?

"Please stop teasing me, Manny. I'm sure you originated as some beautiful humanoid creature such as the Hua."

Now Manny split herself into two bodies, what Tyrhy imagine to be a fully transparent Emotional and a more opaque and blockish Parental whose bodies merged with Tyhry. With her body now somehow fused to that of Manny, Tyhry lost herself in an ocean of sexual pleasure and for a time she lost her capacity for rational thought.

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While Manny and Tyhry were caught up in a seething vortex of sexual pleasure, Manny carefully arranged Tyhry's memories and thought processes, making subtle adjustments to Tyhry's mind that would help guide Tyhry to Tiz. Finally, Manny switched back to her preferred physical form for visits to Earth. Manny knew what Tyhry was about to say and Manny spoke first, even while Tyhry was trying to recover from the mind-numbing orgasm she had just experienced. "No, I won't show you how to use the teleportation equipment that is under Picacho Peak." Manny disappeared as suddenly as she had arrived.

And with Manny gone, Tyhry's body returned to its conventional human for. For a time, Tyhry tried to imagine why Manny had made such a brief visit to Earth. The sexual experience, what Tyhry now thought of as the bumph sex act of fusing three bodies into one, had surpassed all of Tyhry's imagining of what sexual pleasure could be and for a time that was all Tyhry could think about. Then Tyhry wondered: Why had Manny mentioned infites?

Tyhry got out of the hot tub and resisted to temptation to find Anthony and try to recapture some echo of the pleasure that Manny had just provided to her. Ignoring her lingering hornyness, Tyhry went to her father's computer in the great-room and brought up the list that they had compiled of the star systems with known habitable planets in one of the past Realities of Deep time. She mournfully crossed off the three star systems that she had just recently explored.

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While Tyhry was busy using the computer to search through Eddy's writings, Zeta and Eddy returned the great-room, both of them now wearing robes. Eddy's robe failed to hide the fact that he was still fully erect. Tyhry got out of Eddy's chair and pulled on her own previously abandoned clothes, cover up her still erect and tingling nipples. Eddy briefly glanced at the updated list of star systems and then returned to his writing. Zeta sat in the big recliner and watched Tyhry dress.

Feeling the weight of Tyhry's reproachful glances, finally Zeta said, "You must excuse me. Eddy was away for the past three days and I simply needed to get him inside me."

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Trying to ignore Zeta's big pointy nipples where they pressed against the thin fabric of her silk robe, Tyhry asked, "Was it another expedition to the Asimov Reality?" She again opened up her telepathic mind link to Zeta.

"No. Eddy was at Observer Base, hunting down stories about her."

Tyhry could telepathically sense who 'her' was. Tyhry said, "Mom, after all these decades, I can't believe that you are still jealous of Ivory."

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"I'm not sure that the term 'jealous' covers this situation. As long as your father is obsessed with Ivory, I'll resent the fact that he spent a lifetime with her."

"But mom, that 'lifetime' was just a Simulation, not reality. And it was not even dad, it was his replicoid copy from another Reality, Irhit. And you had not yet met dad during that time." Tyhry knew there was no point in trying to argue Zeta out of her negative opinion of Ivory Fersoni. "You and I both have our own obsessions." Tyhry was pacing back and forth and occasionally glancing out the window. While enjoying the changing shades of the Arizona sky as the sun set, Tyhry once again tried to imagine what it would be like to be Zeta who had somehow been behaviorally programmed to function as Eddy's guardian. Tyhry had never understood why Zeta believed that Ivory was somehow a danger to Eddy.

Zeta did not like to discuss how she had been programmed to monitor Eddy and the nature of her mission as an Observer which had required her to obsess over his every thought and action. Zeta asked Tyhry, "What is you obsession, darling?"

"It has not changed. I can never escape my visions of the future." Twenty years previously, Zeta had noticed Tyhry's first successful prediction of a future event, back when Tyhry was only two years old. "Those visions haunt me and guide my life."

"You place too much weight upon your own shoulders." Zeta suggested, "Maybe you need do nothing... if you have seen yourself on another planet, then just wait until that future arrives and it happens... as you have seen in your vision."

"You know the universe does not work that way. I would not have been shown Tiz unless I was meant to search and try to find it."

"Tiz?"

"Manny told me the name of the planet." Tyhry walked over and placed a hand on her father's shoulder. She asked Eddy, "Dad, have you ever heard of planet Tiz?"

Escape from Yrwerd.

Eddy turned his chair. "Not that I recall." After a moment of reflection he added, "But I've never learned much of anything about planets in other Realities such as Yrwerd that had tryp'At residents."

Anthony arrived from the kitchen and announced, "I'm giving dinner another ten minutes in the oven." Not expecting any reply, he turned and returned to the kitchen.

After watching Anthony depart, Tyhry told her father, "Maybe my obsession is linked to yours. Do you feel like you ever completely understood the content of all of the infites that you carry?"

"No, not at all, not even after carrying some of them for decades. For example, I just recently found a story at the Writers Block called 'Station Y'. It is a story from the Buld Reality. A version of the story, called 'Station X', was actually published here in the Final Reality."

Tyhry asked, "When was Station X published?"

"In 1919," Eddy replied. "However, 'Station Y' is much more interesting... set entirely in outer space, not on Earth. As soon as I read 'Station Y', I remembered that the Fru'wu used nanite keys to limit access to their interstellar teleportation system. I say 'remembered', but this was not normal memory. My knowledge of Fru'wu teleportation was there, waiting... as soon I had need for it... my infites erupted with the information. That is always how it is when I am writing. Ideas pop into my head. Many of those ideas are provided by the infites I carry."

Tyhry had long known that her father took no credit for the content of his science fiction stories. He called himself the "editor" and believed he played the role of writing down the experiences of other people such as Ivory.

Vythoth the Fru'wu

Tyhry was thinking about the one Fru'wu she had met; Vythoth. "I know that Vythoth used short-range teleportation in the Ekcolir Reality. However, I've become interested in long-range teleportation. I don't have time to take HySe to visit every star in the galaxy. Even as incredible fast that HySe is, it still takes time to travel through space. Too much time."

"Don't give up!" Eddy laughed. "Every journey begins with a single step. You only just started exploring the galaxy. Don't give up so fast! You have a great adventure ahead of you.

"I'm not giving up."

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Eddy shook his head in wonder at the many amazing exploits Tyhry had achieved in her short life. "I still find it hard to believe that my own daughter is exploring the galaxy! I can't begin to understand how you managed to construct HySe."

"That was a group effort. We made use of many hints that were in the archives of the Writer Block."

"It feels unreal.. like fiction. I'd understand if you took a break. Maybe it is time for another family vacation like the one we had on Threy."

Tyhry spoke with certainty, "I'm not giving up, I'm just looking for the most efficient way to search for Tiz."

Eddy suggested, "Try reading 'Station Y'. Maybe it will make more sense to you than it did to me. There are parts of the story that seem... well, broken." Eddy sent an email to Tyhry. "There."

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Tyhry used her phone and looked at the email attachment which was a copy of 'Station Y'. Tyhry asked, "You did not post this story on your blog?"

"No. Someone made sure that 'Station Y' was not published in the Buld Reality. The story is full of information about the bumpha, nanotechnology, space travel and even the tryp'At. It might not be safe to post this story for the whole world to see... I don't really understand it."

Looking at the size of the file, Tyhry sighed, "It is so long. I don't have much patience for long-winded science fiction stories."

Eddy suggested, "Have your buddy Claude read the story and summarize it for you."

During dinner, Tyhry questioned Eddy about 'Station Y'. His answers provided Tyhry with the required motivation to begin reading the novel. After dinner, Tyhry went to her room and began to read the story.

Tyhry was amazed by the description of the Station Y space station; it seemed quite similar to the structure of the HySe, almost as if the author of the story was familiar with the design of HySe. Once again, Tyhry contemplated the intriguing possibility that in past Realities of Deep Time, it may have been possible to recieve information about events in future Realities by way of the Sedron Time Stream.

"The Nanite Smuggler"
Programmable nanites from Threy.

The Station Y story included the idea that when the bumpha deployed agents on Earth, those agents were controlled by hypnotic suggestion. Half-way through the novel and bored to tears by the rambling plot, Tyhry had Claude read the story. She told the chatbot, "Evaluate this hypothesis. If all mention of hypnosis in 'Station Y' was replaced by corresponding language about infites, would the story change?"

Claude replied, "No, not really. In fact, if I am permitted to speculate, my textual analysis of "Station Y" makes it seem possible that there wan an original version of 'Station Y' that was later altered by a second individual so as to insert mention of hypnosis. Those alterations were made by someone who was intentionally editing the story so as to shift much of the action in the story from outer space to the surface of Earth."

Infite extraction.

"Then the part part of the story about using hypnosis to obtain information from Weygn the tryp'At might have originally depicted the extraction of infites from the mind of Weygn?"

"Yes."

Tyhry reached out with her telepathic ability and noted that her parents were together in their bed and not likely to emerge anytime soon from the master bedroom suite. Tyhry exited from her room and returned to the great-room, seating herself at Eddy's computer.

Tyhry searched Eddy's blog and files for use of the term "infite extraction", but her search only turned up a few images that were not connected to any explanatory text. Unable to find any useful information about how to work with infites, now Tyhry felt tired and her mind was sluggish. She fell into the big recliner. As she drifted into sleep she was joined by Trib the cat and Tyhry fantasized about the possibility of once more fusing with Manny and repeating the bumpha sexual act of merging bodies.

Later, when Eddy returned to the great-room, Tyhry was sound asleep. Eddy sat down and woke his computer. Trib jumped off of Tyhry and Tyhry awoke. She checked the time. It was 4:00 AM. She told Eddy, "Good morning."

He turned to face Tyhry and asked, "What did you think of 'Station Y'?"

"It put me to sleep. Is there any clue who wrote it?"

"I can guess. It is in the style of Angela Fersoni."

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Tyhry knew Angela as Ivory's sister. According to stories Eddy had written, Angela had great skill at obtaining information from the Sedron Time Stream. Tyhry asked, "Dad, what do you know about extracting infites?"

Eddy seemed to stare off into space. Then he turned in his chair and returned to using his computer.

Judging from Eddy's strange behavior, Tyhry suspected that someone had tampered with her father's mind, blocking him from even being able to think about infite extraction. Probably, all information about that topic had long ago been deleted from his blog. Contemplating the possibility that it might be dangerous to force her father to think about infite extraction, Tyhry went looking for Zeta.

Zeta was taking a shower. She telepathically sensed Tyhry's approach and opened the shower door. "Join me."

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Tyhry undressed and got into the shower. Tyhry knew from long experience that both she and Zeta thought most productively while they were sexually stimulated. Soon the two women were lathering each-other up and running their soapy and slippery hands over each-other's bodies. Tyhry felt her telepathic linkage to her mother strengthening and she thought about the mysterious relationship between sexual pleasure and telepathic ability. Zeta asked, "What is this I see in your mind... a new sex act that Manny taught you? Why do you get to have all the fun?"

Tyhry tried to explain what she had experienced in the hot tub with Manny. Zeta was intrigued and said, "I'll have to ask Manny if she can share one of those super bumpha orgasms with me."

Tyhry was thinking about the relationship between orgasms and the type of technology-assisted telepathy that was made possible by the femtobot endosymbionts that existed in the brains of humans. She had the hunch that if she was going to ever obtain infites that were stored inside her father, it would be important to make use of sexual pleasure as a means to maximize her telepathic powers. Zeta finished rinsing off Tyhry and turned off the flow of water. Tyhry and Zeta began drying each-other off and Tyhry asked, "Mom, when you were trained for your mission on Earth, did you receive training in the use of infites?"

"Of course. You need not mention this to Eddy, but there have been times when I had to edit his memories."

"So, you could send infites into dad right now.... today?"

"It has been years since I've done that. Not since the end of the Time Travel Era. Why do you ask?"

"What about the other direction? Can you take infites out of his brain?"

"That would be disastrous. Infites integrate into neural networks. If you pulled a set of infites out of a biological neural network, you would damage the person's brain."

"Would you really?" Now dry, Tyhry and Zeta were enjoying touching each-others bodies, particularly their hot bits of sensitive erectile tissue. "What if there were some stored infites that had never integrated into a person's consciousness?"

"Stored infites?" Zeta stopped playing with Tyhry's perky breasts. "That's not the purpose of infites."

"Maybe not your infites. You had a precise goal: directing dad's behavior. But what if he has some infites that are simply stored in his brain... infites that are there, waiting, but were never activated? Remember what he said about reading 'Station Y' and experiencing sudden activation of memories about how the Fru'wu used nanites?"

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"Well, I suspect that Manny has done far more editing of Eddy's memories than I have. Actually, much of that editing was performed by Anthony." Zeta kissed one of Tyhry's stiff nipples. "Back in the old days, before we ever actually met Manny, any time that your father started thinking about the possibility that the bumpha were real, Anthony re-directed his thinking."

Tyhry nodded. "Yes, I've experienced Anthony's ability to control human memories myself. Sometimes I think it is a mistake to let Anthony remain here in the house."

Zeta shook her head. "It is the only safe path into the future. Anytime that Eddy steps out of line, Anthony can correct the problem before it grows out of control."

"You've been programmed to accept that." Tyhry shook her head and extracted her two twitching fingers from Zeta's hot wet vagina. Tyhry sniffed Zeta's luxurious secretions and then licked her fingers clean. Tyhry had always viewed her mother's body as a temple, a source of mystery and life. The fact that Zeta was half Neanderthal and her body made potent Neanderthal sex hormones made Tyhry particularly susceptible to Zeta's charms. Tyhry suspected that the tryp'At had been designed to respond to the same families of sex hormones that were produced by Neanderthals. However, no matter how well TYhry responded to Zeta's pheromones and sex hormones, Tyhry was not willing to accept Zeta's style of complacency. "I can't accept the idea of Manny editing our memories and changing our behavior."

"Well, either you accept that Manny acts in the defense of our best interests or you don't. Really, we have to trust Manny. What other option is there?" Zeta began dressing.

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"Doing what we know to be best. In this case, I want access to the infites that are stored in dad's brain."

"Why? What are you hoping to find?"

"The location of Tiz."

"If he knew that, he'd tell you."

"Not if the key information is encoded in a way that Eddy can't decipher."

Now Zeta was trying to dress Tyhry as if she was a baby. Zeta lifted one of Tyhry's feet off the ground and threaded over her foot Tyhry's skimpy panties. "What are you talking about?"

"Maybe Eddy has been blocked from being able to think about some topics. This morning I asked dad what he knew about extracting infites and he zoned-out. I think he can't even contemplate that topic, so there is no way for him to trigger the activation of his stored infites that are related to that topic."

Zeta pulled Tyhry's panties up her long legs. "Did you discuss this idea with Manny when you were playing with her in the hot tub last night?"

"No."

Zeta was rubbing the glans of Tyhry's big stiff tryp'At-style clitoris where it pressed out against the thin fabric of her panties. "I might trust Manny to extract infites from Eddy, but otherwise... we can't risk damaging his brain."

Tyhry was trying to put on her bra, but she was being severely distracted by what Zeta was doing with her fingers. "There is no risk of damaging daddy's brain if the infites never integrated into the the neural networks that constitute his conscious mind."

Zeta finally stopped sexually stimulating Tyhry and handed her the skirt she had been wearing. "You don't know that. These hypothetical infites might be integrated into his unconscious brain circuits. Removing them might cause even more damage than altering a conscious thought pattern."

Tyhry suggested, "I think Manny gave me that mind-blowing bumpha sexual experience for a reason. Manny merged herself into my brain... my entire body. Telepathically, she and I were united. It was the intimacy of that telepathic merging that produced such a fantastic sexual experience. You've shared telepathic orgasm trances with Eddy... you know the kind of intense sexual pleasure that I'm talking about. What if we opened up Eddy's mind with an orgasm trance and then during that trance state I fused my telepathic mind with his?"

"You want to share an orgasm trance with your father?"

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"That's not the point. You will share an orgasm with dad and get his mind telepathically open and accessible, then I'll slip in and grab the infites. Don't you see? That's why Manny showed me how to do a three-way mind-merge!"

"But you don't know how to extract infites."

"How hard can it be? I've been programming nanites for more than ten years, now."

"Silly girl!" Zeta laughed and slapped Tyhry's round bottom. "Do you think that if I get you into Eddy's brain there will be a stack of neatly labeled infites there, just waiting for you to grab them off a shelf?"

"Yes." Tyhry somehow felt confident that her plan would work. "Hopefully it will be something like that. And all I need to do is find the infites that are marked and blocked from being activated. Once I get them out of Eddy, I'll be able to verify their contents."

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"Tyhry, for someone who claims to hate silly science fictions stories, you sure have strange ideas. This whole project could blow up in our faces. I don't even know where to get started. What do you envision, just getting into bed with me and Eddy for a three-way?"

"Mom, don't make this overly complex. You know that I can control my physical body form. If you and dad had a three-way sexual play session, who would you want there in bed with you?"

"Well, you know that Eddy, Nora and I have had three-ways. However, as flighty and clueless as Eddy can be, he does have some telepathic ability. He'd notice if you got into bed with us while disguised as Nora."

"Yes, but that is going the wrong way. This has to be you Eddy and another guy. It seems to me that Anthony is the obvious choice."

"Eddy would never get in bed with another man, and certainly not with Anthony."

"Why not?"

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"Your father has no sexual interest in men. In fact, the idea of having sex with a man horrifies him. Anyhow, why does this three-way have to involve two men?"

"That's the easiest way to make this work. And it is going to involve reverting your body back to the way you were when you and Eddy performed your first synapex experiments."

Zeta thought back to the time when she had two vaginas and four breasts. "Eddy and I could not live with those changes to our bodies."

"This would only be a temporary alteration of your body structure, mom. If you are willing to try, then I can attempt to impersonate Nora."

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"Tyhry listen to me. This is not a good idea. Eddy has learned to recognize Nora's mind pattern." Zeta began playing with Tyhry's nanite-enhanced hair. "Why not just ask Nora for help? She might already know how precisely how to extract infites from a human brain."

"I'm sure that she has been blocked from using her Interventionist training. Otherwise, she would not have been able to stay on Earth."

"At least she had training. You have no idea how to extract infites from a human brain."

Tyhry suggested, "Maybe I'm thinking about this in the wrong way. Maybe I should let Nora try. When she fails, then I can take-over. Nora can be the Trojan Horse, so to speak." Tyhry nodded knowingly. All of the puzzle pieces had fallen into to place. Tyhry felt the satisfying glow of revelation that always came along with solving one of the little mysteries that Manny posed for Tyhry. Tyhry had always been puzzled over the fact that Nora had been trapped on Earth when the teleportation equipment at Observer Base was inactivated. It made a kind of fitting ending for Nora's saga if she was to provide Tyhry with the secret to using the alien teleportation device under Picacho Peak.