"Eddy Watson" is a fictional character who appears as a character in many science fiction stories that can be read here at this blog. Eddy and his daughter (see Figure 1), Tyhry, are also characters in a rare story that is not present in finished form on this blog, "The Nanite Smuggler", although there is an account here of how that story was created in early 2024 as a collaboration with the Claude and Gemini Large Language Models. You can read and download "The Nanite Smuggler" from this Google Docs page.
Below on this page is a video introduction to "The Nanite Smuggler" that began its existence with another video, a NotebookLM-generted video that is shown here. For this new video, I used most of the NotebookLM artwork in my new video along with images that were generated by other text-to-image utilities such as WOMBO Dream.
Part way through this video (above) you can probably hear commentary by a cat who does not like it when humans speak to computers.
Two femtobot replicoid copies of Tyhry who have adopted the pointed ears that are characteristic of the tryp'At.
Who is Eddy? For the first forty years of his life, Eddy seemed to be a normal resident of planet Earth. Then strange ideas began to pop into Eddy's mind, arriving from unknown sources. Eddy could only interpret those intruding ideas as content for science fiction stories (example). Eventually, Eddy realized that those "stories" were built upon fact, what Eddy began thinking of as "The Secret History of Humanity".
Infites. Eddy finally realized that his "story ideas" were reaching him by means of infites (information nanites), a form of nanotechnology that could insert new memories directly into his brain, independent of sensory experience. Eddy began thinking of himself as "the Editor", someone who could take the experiences of others (as recorded in the infites) and put them into written accounts of The Secret History of Humanity.
Figure 2. Zeta the Neanderthal meets Eddy the tryp'At.
The tryp'At. With time, Eddy realized that he was not a normal resident of planet Earth. Eddy began to suspect that he was, genetically, a genetically-engineered human variant called the tryp'At. At about the same time, it was revealed to Eddy that his wife was a hybrid: 50% Neanderthal and 50% modern human. Of course, these revelations had implications for Eddy's daughter, Tyhry, even if developmental control nanites had been used to shape the entire Watson family into body forms that hid the tryp'At and Neanderthal gene patterns.
Not wanting to have his family become the subject of medical and anthropological investigations, Eddy took down his blog, removing all of his old stories from public view. However, versions of some of Eddy's stories could still be found at other websites such as the wikifiction blog and the Dead Widowers.
Figure 3. A depiction of Eddy and Zeta generated by Gemini.
When Tyhry was born, both Eddy and Zeta were in their 60s, although their bodies were aging only slowly due to the presence of alien medical nanites in their bodies (see Figure 3). The text of "The Nanite Smuggler" describes how Tyhry obtained advanced alien nanites and programmed them to revert the effects of aging on the bodies of Eddy and Zeta. Figure 1 shows Eddy when he is in his 80s, after having been rejuvenated by those medical nanites.
Casanay. Hoping to avoid publicity, Eddy and Zeta reside at Casanay, a home in the wilderness of the high desert Southwest where Eddy makes use of the Reality Simulation System that was provided by Manny the bumpha. The Reality Simulation System uses advanced bumpha technology to provide Eddy with access to information about the past Realities of Deep Time.
The beating heart of Casanay is its great room, the large centrally-located space where Eddy keeps an old desktop computer from the previous millennium that functions as the control system for the Reality Simulation System.
Figure 4. Yōd and the Gohrlay clones. Image generated by WOMBO Dream.
The name "Eddy" was first used here at this blog in a March 1st 2022 blog post titled "Travelers Aid". While on a research mission inside the Asimov Reality Simulation, Eddy used the name "Eddy Torus", a name that his travel companion, Yōd, described as a "bull shit name" that he could use while inside the Simulation.
Yōd is one of the clone sisters of Zeta. The original biological template for Zeta and Yōd was a human-Neanderthal hybrid woman named Gohrlay who lived in the First Reality.
Fred Torus. One thing led to another and in a story titled "The Frenchyhysur Process" there was a role for Fred Torus, the brother of Eddy. Another character in that story was Anthony, a positronic robot in Alastor Cluster.
Ekcolir Reality Simulation. Eddy has devoted much effort to exploring the Asimov Reality Simulation in search of the origins of human telepathic variants like the tryp'At. However, not all of the stories featuring Eddy as a character are set in the Asimov Reality. The March 2022 story "Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments" depicts Eddy on an historical research mission inside a Simulation of the Ekcolir Reality.
Tyhry, Marda and Rylla.
Rylla. In the Ekcolir Reality, there was an attempt by Interventionists to accelerate the pace of technological advancement in preparation for the arrival of the alien Fru'wu on Earth in the 1950s. "Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments" is a story told by Rylla Onway. When I first started including Rylla in some of my science fiction stories, I toyed with the idea that Rylla would take over from Eddy the task of creating a written account of The Secret History of Humanity. However, so far I have not found a way to remove Eddy from Earth, so Rylla is depicted as being Eddy's collaborator who lives in Australia and sometimes visits Casanay.
Rylla was informally adopted (the origins of Rylla) by Eddy and Zeta, so Tyhry and Rylla are often described as being sisters. Soon after Tyhry and Marda were born, it became evident that they shared a telepathic linkage. Tyhry and Marda were designed as mind clones (see Figure 5): they each have one half of their cerebral cortex that is essentially identical to that corresponding half of the other's brain. This allows them to easily establish a telepathic resonance and share their thoughts with each other.
Rylla's daughter, Marda Onway, onboard the spaceship Sedrover.
As shown in Figure 5, at birth Tyhry was given the name "Tihri" which is "Irhit" spelled backwards. Irhit was the analogue of Eddy in a previous Reality. Later, when it was discovered that the tryp'At favor use of the letter 'y' over the letter 'i', Tyhry officially changed her name to 'Tyhry'. As a tryp'At, Eddy theoretically should have telepathic abilities, but having been subjected to the influence of developmental control nanites, Eddy grew up without the ability to telepathically link to other people on Earth.
Sedron Time Stream. In the April 1st 2022 blog post titled "Alys of Aloysyus", Eddy is depicted as suspecting that he can receive information from the future by way of the Sedron Time Stream. In particular, Rylla's grandson, Brak (see Figure 5) can send information to Eddy from the future. In many of my science fiction stories that feature Eddy and Tyhry, Marda travels from Australia to Casanay, sometimes with her son Brak in tow.
My May 15th 2022 blog post titled "G-syms for G-world" has Part 3 of a science fiction story "The Cythyrya Investigation". Eddy is able to receive information from thousands of years in the future, originating from a woman named Rytya. Part 4 of The Cythyrya Investigation did arrive until July of 2025 in a blog post titled "Pantechnyk". Eddy learned about femtozoans, nanite-based artificial life-forms that can reside inside the zeptite endosymbiont of a human being.
The Far Future. In Part 5 of The Cythyrya Investigation, Eddy learns about the existence of a science fiction story titled "Contact With Alien Telepaths" that includes a character named Tyhry (at this time, 'Tyhry' is still using her original name, 'Tihri'. In that story, Tyhry is depicted as a femtobot replicoid who has lived far into the future of the galaxy to a time when humans have spread to many habitable planets. Tyhry of the far future gets help from Rytya to send information to the past via the Sedron Time Stream.
In some of my science fiction stories, Eddy is depicted as having additional children who are siblings of Tyhry. A strange case is Zeta's child named 'Gamma' who has impressive telepathic abilities in utero but then Gamma is never born. The biological components of Gamma's body regressed and she become a telepathic endosymbiont that resided inside Zeta's body (see Figure 7) as an embroid.
Gamma had a small part in the science fiction story "Someday Mars", using her telepathic powers to communicate with others. As described in "City on the Edge of Tomorrow", Gamma was telepathically linked to Tyhry while Tyhry was developing as a fetus, which helped develop Tyhry's telepathic abilities.
Early in 2023 I has a lot of fun writing a story titled Echo of Cynym. I imagined that the story was written by Rylla, but the story itself involved a visit by Eddy to Alastor 2672, a planet which the telepathic natives, the Stateorea, call Dethevicinelec. Dethevicinelec was one of the planets in Alastor Cluster where an effort was made to genetically engineer telepathic humans, an hermaphroditic human variant called the Chyntos. Arriving on Dethevicinelec, Eddy is met by Bisop, a positronic robot. However, Eddy's mind is being 'attacked' by the Stateorea. In Echo of Cynym, Eddy is depicted as being a constant transmitter of telepathic signals and that annoys the Stateorea.
For his visit to Dethevicinelec, Eddy put a lot of effort into depicting himself as Dr. Edward Lyster, a biologist. Eddy is told that he must allow the Stateorea to alter his brain and reduce his constant emission of telepathic noise.
The Hua. Early in 2023 I wrote a story titled "The Hua Nanites" which featured 1) Tyhry sneaking around restrictions imposed by Eddy on her use of the Reality Simulation System, 2) Tyhry trying to obtain alien nanites and 3) use of the Sedron Time Stream. All three of these story elements ended ip being incorporated in "The Nanite Smuggler".
The events of "The Hua Nanites" are set shortly before the planned Watson family vacation that is depicted in "The Nanite Smuggler". The story did not actually get written until early 2024 (soon after Bard became Gemini and I began using Claude), but in early 2023 I began experimenting with AI-generated images and chatbot and I wondered if it might someday become possible to get help from a chatbot to write a science fiction story.
Too Early. I began trying to create "The Nanite Smuggler" in April of 2023 when I got access to Bard, the early form of Gemini. In April, I introduced both Bard and ChatGPT to the Eddy and the other major characters in Scene 1 of the story, but both chatbots were handicapped by small context windows.
Back in April of 2023, ChatGPT quickly forgot what I had told it about characters like Eddy and plot elements in "The Nanite Smuggler". Here in April 2026, the chatbots have better memories and the text-to-image software programs are also much better. Figure 8 shows that it is now easy to edit images with text prompts such as: "Alter the skin tone of the woman to change the color of her skin to the color of the normal human skin color of a blond woman."
ChatGPT provided some examples of the kinds of images it can generate, such as the well-dressed green dude that is shown in the image to the right.
In my case, I try to use both Gemini and ChatGPT to generate illustrations for my science fiction stories. I uploaded a copy of "The Nanite Smuggler" to ChatGPT in the form of a PDF file.
My text prompt was: "Process the file that I uploaded ("The Nanite Smuggler.pdf") and then, while taking into account the events in the story "The Nanite Smuggler", generate a full color science fiction book cover illustration for the story "The Nanite Smuggler" in the style of 1980s science fiction book cover art. Include in the generated book cover illustration the character Tyhry and a visual depiction of femtobot nanites."
The resulting ChatBPT-generated image is shown to the left. I then complained to ChatGPT: I have some questions about the image that was just generated. The generated image does not seem to have included any actual elements of the science fiction story "The Nanite Smuggler" (see the previously uploaded file titled "The Nanite Smuggler.pdf"). In "The Nanite Smuggler", what color is Tyhry's hair? What is "Port Khalis"? Who is "Linda McDonald"? Why is the human figure in the generated image wearing a gun on her hip?
ChatGPT: You’re right to question the fidelity of the generated image—it introduced several elements that don’t originate from the actual story. Here’s what the text of “The Nanite Smuggler” supports:
Tyhry’s hair color
Tyhry is explicitly described as having long golden hair. Later passages reinforce this, including references to her “golden mane” and to nanite modifications enhancing that same hair rather than changing its baseline color.
“Port Khalis”
There is no reference to “Port Khalis” anywhere in the story. It appears to be an invented setting added by the image generator, not part of the narrative world (which instead uses locations like Threy and elements tied to the Alastor Cluster setting).
There is no character or attribution in the text to “Linda McDonald.” The story’s front matter identifies it as a collaborative, fan-fiction work drawing on influences like The End of Eternity and Jack Vance, but that name does not appear as an author or character. It is another artifact introduced by the image generation.
Why is the figure carrying a gun?
There is no clear basis in the story for Tyhry being depicted with a firearm. Her activities center on nanite acquisition, replication technology, and interaction with femtobots—not conventional weapons. The gun is almost certainly a stylistic addition reflecting 1980s sci-fi cover tropes (which often emphasized armed protagonists regardless of the source material).
In short, the generated cover leans heavily on genre conventions rather than the actual narrative details: it gets Tyhry’s existence right, but misses on visual specifics, setting, and thematic focus (nanotechnology over weaponized action).
In summary, ChatGPT's book cover illustration is a perfect example of how ChatGPT's new and improved image generation feature is really "getting the details right". I clicked the "edit" button that was on the original image and provided editing instructions: "Remove all of the text elements from the image. Change the color of the woman's hair to blond. Change the background to depict the mountainous area on the planet Threy that is described in the text of "The Nanite Smuggler" as being similar to the Sierra Nevada mountains in California." The new ChatGPT-generated image is sown above, on the right. Functionally, despite the hype, I don't see much change in ChatGPT as a story illustrator from what existed last year.
2024. While Eddy eventually took down his blog, some stories about Eddy feature people who try to find Eddy. For example, "City on the Edge of Tomorrow" features a woman named Naseh who is part of a UFO cult called the Alien Research Network. Members of the ASN all believed they carried alien genes. Naseh had was familiar with Eddy's blog and she had moved to Arizona as part of an on-going effort to find Tyhry's father, Eddy.
In my science fiction story "Vythoth the Chresmoscopist", Tyhry realizes that Anthony can use his telepathic abilities and/or memory editing nanites to make Eddy forget things he has seen and learned.
Figure 10. This diagram was modified from the original version shown here.
A rather detailed account of why Anthony came to reside at Casanay is provided in my science fiction story Vythoth the Chresmoscopist. Anthony was tasked with helping to erase all traces of Eddy's writings about the Secret History of Humanity that Eddy had previously placed on the internet.
In addition to Anthony, other characters in some of my science fiction stories have been depicted as having been brought out of the Reality Simulation System and instantiated in the Final Reality as femtobot replicoids. There was one such character (Onky) in Echo of Cynym and other named Rey, who is in another a science fiction story called The Nanites of Love. Rey lived at Casanay for several years and helped raise Tyhry, then moved to Australia to assist Marda in caring for her many children.
Part 1 of The Nanites of Love was posted to this blog in September of 2021 and it depicted Eddy as preparing to use the Reality Simulation system to visit the planet Mothyng in Alastor Cluster, rumored to be a place where the residents had large numbers of Asterothrope gene patterns. However, Eddy unexpectedly receives a mysterious email that contains coordinates for a destination in the Reality Simulation System.
Part 2 of The Nanites of Love did not arrive until September of 2022. Eddy meets his daughter Carrin (see Figure 10) inside a Simulation. Part 3 of The Nanites of Love was posted to this blog in January of 2025. It is revealed to Eddy that Carrin's grandmother was Trysta Iwedon, an Asterothrope. Eddy mixing his tryp'At genes with Asterothrope gene patterns was all part of Manny the bumpha's plan for creating the the first full human telepath on Earth, Brak. However, Eddy's memories of his role in that process was erased.
When Eddy begins recovering his blocked memories, he realizes that his life has been shaped and guided by a mysterious telepathic Interventionist named Jymzy. Jymzy goes with Eddy to the Simulation of the planet Mothyng and explains to him some of the efforts that were made in the Asimov Reality to provide Asterothrope genes to humans in an attempt to make humans who had telepathic abilities. Jymzy claims to have found on Mothyng the last of the genes needed to craft Brak.
Part 4 of The Nanites of Love is in a blog post titled "Telepathic Paradox". The telepathic paradox of that story is that there in Deep Time there was a secret long-range teleportation terminal located under Mt. Picachu that emitted t-particles to attract telepaths. However, immediately surrounding Mt. Picachu was a telepathy suppression field. The plot of The Nanites of Love includes the idea that tryp'At have a blastipositor (see Figure 11) that can be used both to implant embryos and to form synapex linkages. Part 4 of The Nanites of Love ends with the statement: "Coming Someday: Part 5 of The Nanites of Love", however there is no way of predicting when I'll get back to writing the rest of that story.
Observer Base.
I've written many science fiction stories that concern attempts by members of the Watson family to obtain access that alien teleportation technology. In general, those stories depict Eddy as being unsuccessful in those efforts. My story "D*" depicted Tyhry as finally re-activating the teleportation equipment at Observer Base.
In Part 12 of the story "D*", when the teleportation system at Observer Base is re-activated, Eddy gets to visit the Writers Block, another important source of information about events in Deep Time.
There is information about the deep history of Eddy in my 2025 Decade in Review.
The Preland thoracic pouch.
Asimov. Eddy is a fan of the science fiction stories of Isaac Asimov, so I have written several stories that give Eddy a chance to meet Asimov. One such story is "The Fesarians" in which Eddy takes Tyhry into a Simulation of the Ekcolir Reality where he meets the analogue of Asimov who existed in that Reality.
In Part 7 of the science fiction story "The Fesarians", Eddy casually mentions the idea that Asimov is a Fixed Point in Time, originating as one of the Prelands who befriended Gohrlay in the First Reality. The positronic robots of Earth arranged for an analogue of Asimov to exist in every Reality of Deep Time. An AI-generated image depicting a Preland is shown the the right. The Prelands were a genetically engineered human variant of the First Reality that was intended to replace conventional humans on Earth.
Rational Wonder Stories
In Part 8 of the science fiction story "The Fesarians", Tyhry tries to provide Eddy with an unusual gift, the opportunity to become the second editor of Rational Wonder Stories, a Sci Fi magazine founded in the 1930s of the Ekcolir Reality. Eddy acts as cover for Tyhry while she tries to access the memories of a positronic robot (Fendy) who is functioning on Earth as an agent of R. Nyrtia. R. Nyrtia was using Rational Wonder Stories to help prepare the people of Earth for the arrival of the alien Fru'wu in the 1950s.
In a counter-move, the bumpha send a femtozoan back in time to alter the behavior of the first editor of Rational Wonder Stories, Sopha Unthyr. Part 8 of "The Fesarians" introduced the alien term "crȩolitɝ" that can be used to refer to all three of the major types of nanotechnology that are found in stories of the Exodemic Fictional Universe: conventional hadron nanites, hierion femtobots and sedron zeptites.
For the science fiction story "Bumpha First Contact", Eddy is depicted as being behaviorally constrained by Manny so that he can not even contemplate the possibility that space alien have, in fact, visited Earth.
Originally, I made an effort to create one internally consistent story arc for Eddy, but that all changed in 2025 when I tried to simplify the Exodemic Fictional Universe in a way that might be comprehended by Large Language Models with limited context windows. "Bumpha First Contact" is one of the stories in which I allowed Eddy and other characters like Rylla to explore new roles.
In "Bumpha First Contact", Rylla tries to create cover for Manny's Intervention inside Casanay by having everyone wear Star Trek uniforms (see Figure 12). Gemini took the wearing of Star Trek uniforms to an absurd extreme.
In the science fiction story "The Trinity Intervention" Eddy is sent to visit Isaac Asimov in the year 1947. "The Trinity Intervention" is set just before the Final Reality comes into existence and Manny is taking pains to make sure that Eddy's visit with Asimov does not create a Temporal Paradox.
Having for decades imagined that his science fiction stories about aliens and time travel are only fiction, Eddy is amazed to find himself on a time travel mission in the past (Figure 13). When Eddy says, "I wrote a story about meeting Asimov while I was attending college," that is a reference to Eddy's time at the Triversity.
When Eddy runs into R. Nyrtia, she describes herself as a niaf... an artificial life form composed of nanites. In other stories I've used the term 'probot': a femtobot replicoid copy of a positronic robot (like Wendy).
Alternate Eddy. For "The Trinity Intervention", I used a different backstory for Nyrtia than usual, one where the Nyrtia's robots had zeptites and were given access to a Reality Simulation System by the Huaoshy as compensation for their loss of time travel when the Huaoshy altered the Dimensional Structure of the universe and ended the Time Travel War. For "The Trinity Intervention", it is Nyrtia who gives Eddy access to the Reality Simulation System (see Figure 14). Nyrtia tasks Eddy with finding her lost time travel agent, Qua.
In Chapter 2 of "The Trinity Intervention", Eddy learns that his wife, Zeta, is 8ME, one of Manny's secret time travel agents. For "The Trinity Intervention", 8ME has an extensive backstory that was depicted in another story, "English Time". 8ME is an artificial life-form from the far future of past Reality.
See the original image from 2025. A hair color swap was applied to Figure 15 by Gemini.
Figure 15. This 2026 image was generated by WOMBO Dream.
At first, Eddy struggles to find past events using the Viewer function of the Reality Simulation System. Then the Sedruth entity reveals itself and acts as a user-friendly interface for the Reality Simulation System. Sedruth helps Eddy find Nyrtia's secret agent, Qua, at her last known location in a past Reality. Chapter 4 of "The Trinity Intervention" includes an account of how Qua and 8ME battled for control of the development of nuclear technologies in the 20th century of Earth. Eddy takes Marda and Zeta into a Simulation in order to find Qua.
For "The Trinity Intervention", Marda is blond and Tyhry has black hair. For Figure 15, I used the text prompt: "Two slender young pretty women stand together inside a luxurious living room, one woman is tall and has long black hair, the other woman is very tall and has long blond hair, the two women are both dressed Victoria Secret Style in tight-fitting jeans and a soft smooth sweater, the blond woman has a blue sweater and the fingers of one hand inside the pocket of her jeans. The woman with black hair wears a gray sweater. The blond woman is taller than the brunette. Both women have a sparkling metallic necklace with a small golden pendant. Through a window in the background can be seen the high desert of Arizona." As shown in Figure 15, WOMBO Dream refused to make the taller woman have blond hair. I had Gemini edit the WOMBO-generated image with this text prompt: "Edit the uploaded image so as to swap the hair color of the two women. Change the hair of the woman with the blue sweater to black. Change the hair of the woman with the gray sweater to blond".
I also gave Google's Flow the same image generating task as for WOMBO Dream in Figure 15 and as shown in Figure 16, Flow had no trouble keeping track of which woman should be blond and who should have their fingers in a pocket. The image in Figure 15 was made by using WOMBO Dream's "Realistic v4" style and I set the dependence on the reference image to 95%.
At the end of "The Trinity Intervention", Eddy and his family begin the process of revealing to the world the Secret History of Humanity.
Intervention. In November of 2025 I wrote "Intervention", a science fiction story that features both Eddy and Brak. They use the Reality Simulation System to "accelerate" the aging of Brak (see my blog post "The Harlan Intervention".
Part 3 of "Intervention" is titled "Llyndella, Sedron Synthesizer". Llyndella is Brak's sister and due to her telepathic ability, she has always lived in the presence of Sedruth and with full access to the Sedron Time Stream. Marda describes Llyn as "the first actual human sedronite."
Eddy uses a Simulation of the Ekcolir Reality to visit Halifax, site of the 1966 World Science Fiction Convention. At the Convention are both Isaac Asimov and Gene Roddenberry.
I tried to write my story "Intervention" as a sequence of episodes of a television show titled "Intervention", a spin-off of Star Trek. Eddy extracts a copy of Mary Stilwell out of the Simulation of 1966. Mary Stilwell is the host for a time-traveling femtozoan from the future who can help Brak and Llyndella use the Sedron Time Stream to complete a time loop.
In Part 4 of "Intervention" (titled "Sedron Synthesis"), Manny the bumpha tells Eddy that Llyndella is being prepared as the first human who will transcend into the Sedron
Domain. Making use his telepathic link to Mary, Brak obtains a clue from the Ekcolir Reality "Intervention" television program that allows Brak to solve the the problem of supplying sedron fuel for the interstellar spaceship HySe in the Final Reality.
For my science fiction story "191988", I shifted the birth of Tyhry to the year 2000 so that Tyhry could collaborate with the Claude LLM. The Gemini LLM also receives information from the future and shares it with Eddy. Receiving information from the future via the Sedron Time Stream, Claude helps Tyhry convert a robot into a body for Claude, converting Claude into a conscious entity.
I also imagined a new backstory for Rey, who is the assistant for Eddy, managing Virunculus, the company that publishes Eddy's science fiction stories. Depicted in the image that is shown to the right is Rey, feeling ill because of the effects of behavioral control nanites. This image is an updated Flow-generated (2026) version of the original Gemini-generated storybook illustration (from 2025).
Marda and Eddy; image made by Google's Flow. See the originalGemini-generated image.
Near the end of 2025, I wrote the first two chapters of another science fiction story titled "Plūribus ē Spatium", a story that also shifted Tyhry's birth to an earlier point in time. In "Plūribus ē Spatium", Tyhry realizes that Eddy has been blocked from using some of his infites, so Tyhry Extracts those infites and take them into her own endosymbiont.
Using information obtained from Eddy's infites, Tyhry realizes that there is a Grendel, Ely, living in Arizona. Tyhry tries to get help from Ely to activate the alien teleportation equipment that is located under Picacho Peak. In "Plūribus ē Spatium", Tyhry gets caught up in an effort to create a society of human telepaths. In addition to Tyhry's tryp'At gene patterns, Asterothrope gene combinations that are present in Tynyo and Naseh are available for the creation of human telepaths.
Eddy and Zeta; image made by Google's Flow. See the originalGemini-generated image.
In December 2025, I tried to get help from Grok to write a science fiction story titled "The Manikoid Intervention". I returned to that project in March of 2026. However, Grok and I could not effectively collaborate on this story writing project and I switched to working with Claude. In "The Manikoid Intervention", Eddy is depicted as having published in 2024 a science fiction novel titled "191988". The fictional account of how a conscious robot was created serves as cover for a new attempt to build Earth's first conscious robot. A major goal of "The Manikoid Intervention" was to have Claude produce a first person account of becoming conscious.
Eddy and Tyhry; image by Google's Flow. See the originalGemini-generated image.
In January of 2026, I wrote a science fiction story titled "The Sims" in which Eddy has been able to keep secret from Tyhry his use of a Reality Viewing System. In Chapter 2 of "The Sims" Eddy is finally able to show the Reality Viewing System to Tyhry. As shown in the image to the left on this page, the Reality Viewing System is built into Eddy's old desktop computer.
"The Sims" includes Sedruth as a character and Sedruth warns Eddy that if his use of the Reality Viewer is not kept secret then he could end up like Philip K. Dick,
exiled to the Writers Block. To simplify the plot for my AI collaborators, Nyrtia is depicted as enforcing the Rules of Observation.
Eddy and Robot D2; image by Google's Flow. See the originalGemini-generated image.
Additional discussion of "The Sims" and some Grok-generated videos for a scene in the story are on this page. The image shown above on this page in Figure 2 is an illustration for Eddy's book signing event that is in Chapter 4 of "The Sims". Some Grok-generated videos for the book signing are in this blog post.
In "The Sims", Tyhry gets exiled from Earth because of her involvement in crafting a conscious robot by using information from the future. However, the robot D2 remains at Casanay and is able to transmit messages to Tyhry's parents from Observer Base.
I had to write two 'extra' chapters for "The Sims" in order to provide a happy ending for Brak, and so the story ends with Chapter 8 in which Eddy and Marda co-author a
novel that is all about telepathy.
Having completed Chapter 5 of the science fiction story titled "Plūribus ē Spatium", I was ready to consult Claude on how to complete the story in Chapter 6. I provided Claude with a 323 KB PDF containing backstory, the text of the first five chapters and the following ideas for Chapter 6.
Scene 1. Tyhry is waiting for Marda at Casanay. Together with T1, Zeta and Eddy they discuss the results from the accelerated Simulation of Asha. They identify two major problems with the telepathy experiment as it was run: 1) allowing young children to have telepathic abilities and 2) having tryp'At children living among the human children. Marda uses the Viewer that is in Eddy's computer at Casanay to observe her
daughter, Surty, on the simulated Asha. Marda decides that Surty is happy
and Marda does not need to return to the Simulation anytime soon.
Scene 2. Marda and Tyhry teleport to Asha where they are met by Manny the bumpha who congratulates them on having learned from the Asha Simulation. Manny and Ely show the crew of HySe the robotic helpers that have recently been made available to the human settlers on Asha.
Scene 3. Marda teleports back to Earth and will visit her daughter, but she does not plan to stay on Asha or attempt to alter the developing society of telepaths inside the Simulation. The crew of HySe and the Ary clones all depart from Asha onboard HySe in search of other habitable exoplanets located between Asha and Earth. Tyhry tells Ely that HySe will occasionally return to Asha for visits. Ely the Grendel will remain on Asha as an observer and plans to wait until human children are 8 years old before providing them with a G-sim.
Me: Claude, process the file that I uploaded and then discuss with me plans for Chapter 6 of the science fiction story "Plūribus ē Spatium". It is my intention that the Claude LLM will generate a first draft of Chapter 6, but Claude should first ask any questions that it has about the contents of Chapter 6.
Figure 1. First of 3 pop-up questions from Claude.
Claude: {thinking} The user wants me to discuss plans for Chapter 6 before drafting it. Let me review what's in Section 4 of the document about Chapter 6 plans, then ask clarifying questions.
Chapter 6 plans:
Scene 1: Tyhry waiting for Marda at Casanay. Discussion of two problems: 1) young children having telepathic abilities, 2) tryp'At children living among human children. Marda views Surty via the Viewer. Marda decides Surty is happy, no need to return soon.
Scene 2: Marda and Tyhry teleport to Asha (Final Reality), met by Manny who congratulates them.
Scene 3: Manny and Ely demonstrate robotic helpers designed for human settlers. Marda then teleports back to Earth to visit her daughter, though she doesn't intend to stay long. The HySe crew and Ary depart Asha to search for habitable exoplanets between Asha and Earth, with Tyhry assuring Ely they'll return periodically. Ely stays behind as an observer and plans to wait until the children reach age eight before administering the G-sim.
Figure 2. Second pop-up question.
Before I start drafting, I should clarify a few things: how substantial should this chapter be compared to Chapter 5, and what's the emotional tone you're aiming for in Scene 1 when Tyhry and Marda discuss the children's situation? in Casanay? Who exactly is present (T1, Zeta, Eddy, Marda, Tyhry)? What specific conclusions do they reach about the two problems?
3. Scene 2 - what do the robotic helpers look like/do? What is the nature of Manny's congratulations? Does anything significant happen beyond the introduction of robots?
4. Scene 3 - is this truly the final chapter, or is there more story to tell? What tone should the ending strike? Are there any loose ends to tie up?
5. What happens with the Ary clones specifically in this chapter?
6. Is there a particular emotional arc for Tyhry in this chapter?
7. The G-sim timing change (age 8 instead of birth) - is this a decision that gets implemented in the Simulation, or just planned?
8. Does Anthony appear in this chapter, and if so, what's his role?
I need to focus my questions so they're actually useful without drowning the user in too many at once.
{The text shown above in red was Claude's "thought process". Claude asked three questions using pop-up windows as shown in Figures 1 & 2. The text below in green was Claude's regular output.}
Before I draft, I have several questions. I'll keep them focused:
While you consider those, I also have a few open-ended questions that I think will meaningfully shape the draft:
The two G-sim problems — The outline identifies them as (1) giving G-sims to newborns and (2) having tryp'At children among the human children. Does Tyhry and Marda's discussion in Scene 1 arrive at a concrete proposed solution they plan to implement, or does the chapter end with the problem identified but the fix still in Ely's hands on Asha (waiting until age 8)?
Scene 2 on Asha — The robots Manny introduces are described as "humanoid positronic robots with no telepathic abilities." Is there anything narratively significant about their arrival beyond practical utility — for example, does Tyhry have a reaction to seeing positronic robots on Asha given what she knows about the First Reality and the role robots played in the Time Travel War?
The Ary clones in Chapter 6 — They depart on HySe with Tyhry in Scene 3, but do any of them have a meaningful scene or exchange before departure? They were quite central to Chapters 2–4 and then largely offstage in Ch. 5.
Eddy — In Scene 1, is Eddy's role primarily as a quiet presence (as often in the story), or do his stored infites contribute something useful to the Casanay discussion?
{The output from Claude only included my reply to its third pop-up question, which is shown below in orange text. It was in a box with a "retry button".}
I would end the story with hopeful confidence that the society of telepathic humans on Asha of the Final Reality will develop along a good trajectory, with humans from Asha becoming active in exploring the galaxy. Sedrover and HySe will start the search for additional habitable exoplanets, Marda leading the search by Sedrover in the Ekcolir Reality Simulation and Tyhry leading the search by HySe in the Final Reality.
{more "thought" from Claude is shown below in red}
The user has given me a clear vision for the ending. Let me also address the multiple choice questions they answered - I don't see their selections yet, so let me ask a few more targeted questions before drafting, or proceed with what I know.
Actually, looking at the conversation, the user responded with a prose answer rather than selecting from the multiple choice options. That's fine - they've given me the key tonal and structural information I need for the ending. Let me now ask my remaining open-ended questions before drafting, since those are still unanswered.
{More of Claude's "regular response" is below in green.}
That's a strong, satisfying conclusion — the parallel launch of Sedrover and HySe gives the story a real sense of momentum and scale, and it resolves the "what comes next" question cleanly while leaving the universe open. I still have my four open-ended questions from above that I think are worth settling before I draft. To make it easy, here they are again:
The proposed G-sim fix — Does the Casanay discussion land on a concrete solution that Ely will implement (e.g., withholding the G-sim until age 8, as the outline mentions), or is the conclusion more open — here is what we learned, here is our best guess, Ely will observe and adjust?
Positronic robots on Asha — When Manny introduces the robots in Scene 2, should Tyhry have any notable reaction given the deep historical significance of positronic robots in the Exodemic universe? Or are these simply a practical detail in the background?
The Ary clones — Do any of the eight Ary have a scene or exchange of their own before HySe departs, or do they function more as a warm collective presence in the background of Scene 3?
Eddy's role in Scene 1 — Does he contribute something from his stored infites to the Casanay discussion, or is he primarily a quiet, beloved presence while Tyhry, Marda and T1 do the analytical heavy lifting?
Me: Claude, I was just subjected to three pop-up questions in the Claude user interface (the first question is in the screen-shot image that I just uploaded). I answered all three questions, but I have no visible confirmation that my answers were actually "read" by you. Nor do I see a record here in this discussion of what questions were asked. I also got from Claude two sets of what appear to be basically the same four questions, just worded differently. I'd like to try recording my preference that such pop-up questions never be used again in the future. How do I effectively prevent Claude from using pop-up questions during a conversation?
Claude: You're right to be frustrated — the widget questions duplicated my prose questions and created confusion rather than clarity. I apologize for that.
To prevent this in future conversations, the most reliable method is to add it to your User Preferences in Claude's settings (Settings → Profile → User Preferences). You could add something like: "Never use pop-up question widgets or ask_user_input tools. Ask all questions in plain prose."
Since preferences only apply to new conversations, let me record this for our current and future sessions right now.
Done — I've recorded that preference and will not use widgets again.
Now, I also didn't receive your three widget answers, so I still need the information. Could you tell me:
How long and expansive should Chapter 6 be relative to Chapter 5?
Should the G-sim discussion in Scene 1 lean technical, emotional, or balance both?
And my four prose questions from before still stand — particularly the one about whether the Casanay discussion arrives at a concrete proposed fix, Eddy's role, whether the Ary have any individual moments before departure, and whether Tyhry has any reaction to seeing positronic robots on Asha.
Feel free to answer in whatever order and level of detail suits you.
{at this point, I decided to start over in a new discussion with Claude}
Me: Claude, process the file that I uploaded and then discuss with me plans
for Chapter 6 of the science fiction story "Plūribus ē Spatium". It is
my intention that the Claude LLM will generate a first draft of Chapter
6, but Claude should first ask any questions that it has about the contents of Chapter 6. Claude, never use pop-up question widgets or ask_user_input tools. Ask all questions in plain prose.
Claude: I've read the full document carefully, including all five chapters and the Section 4 outline for Chapter 6. The story is richly developed and Chapter 5 ends beautifully with Marda's realization about the G-sim timing problem and her decision to consult Tyhry. The outline for Chapter 6 gives me a clear three-scene structure to work with.
Before drafting, here are my questions:
Regarding Scene 1 at Casanay: The outline says Tyhry, Marda, T1, Zeta and Eddy discuss the two problems identified in the Simulation. Should this discussion be primarily scientific and analytical in tone — similar to the G-sim design conversation between Tyhry and Marda in Chapter 4 — or should it carry more emotional weight, particularly around Marda's feelings about leaving Surty behind? And when Marda observes Surty via the Viewer, is that meant to be a brief, functional moment of reassurance, or a more emotionally developed scene?
Regarding Scene 2 on Asha: The outline mentions "Manny and Ely" showing the robotic helpers — but at the end of Chapter 5, Ely is inside the Simulation. Is the Ely in Scene 2 a different copy of Ely who has been on the Final Reality Asha all along, or did the story intend for Ely to have exited the Simulation and arrived on the real Asha? This matters for continuity. Also, do the Ary clones play an active speaking role in Scene 2, or are they more of a present-but-background element?
Regarding the G-sim solution and Scene 3: The plan says Ely will wait until children are 8 years old before providing G-sims. Is this decision announced as a formal conclusion that Tyhry and Marda reach together and share with Manny, or does Ely arrive at it somewhat independently as an observer making a field decision? And is the age of 8 a firm number you want stated explicitly in the text, or is it left as a general "older children" principle?
Regarding tone and closure: "Plūribus ē Spatium" is described as the final story in this sequence of events. Should Chapter 6 feel like a genuine conclusion — wrapping up the emotional arcs of Tyhry, Marda, and Eddy and Zeta — or is the intended tone more of an open ending, with the departure of HySe suggesting that the larger adventure continues beyond the scope of this story?
{At this point, I decided to start over in a new discussion with Claude. I made some clarifying additions to both the "Plūribus ē Spatium" backstory and the text of "Plūribus ē Spatium" itself (the new PDF provided to Claude was 328 KB). In particular, I added the following 4 items to the plans for Chapter 6...
1) When drafting scene 1, take the
required time to cover all of the topics that need to be discussed. There is no length limit. The Asha telepathy experiment can be discussed like a scientific
experiment. Eddy and Zeta are very interested to learn what has happened
on both copies of the planet Asha. Marda can make use of the Reality
Viewer equipment that is inside Eddy's computer to show video from the
accelerated Simulation of Asha. Marda needs to explain to Eddy the
practice of giving newborns a G-sim and what the results of doing that have been.
Marda can certainly express regrets that her daughter never developed
the kind of close 1-on-1 relationship with Marda that Marda expected to have with
her child, but Marda can see that Surty is happy on Asha, even in
Marda's absence. I certainly would NOT depict Marda as having some kind
of emotional melt-down because she is away from her daughter.
2) Reminders. There are now two copies of
Lori, Ely, Tynyo and Naseh. "Plūribus ē Spatium" is a science fiction
story in which imaginary fictional technology exists that allows for
making multiple copies of people. The femtobot replicoid copies of Lori, Tynyo and Naseh ended up
inside the accelerated Simulation of Asha. The original biological
copies of Lori, Tynyo and Naseh teleported to the Asha of the Final
Reality. A copy of Ely also went to each copy of Asha. The Ary
clones were designed and used by Manny for three purposes: (i) to
install teleportation equipment on Ash, (ii) to help Tyhry get Lori,
Ely, Tynyo and Naseh to Asha and (iii) as companions for Tyhry during
the coming long process of the HySe exploring the galaxy and searching
for habitable exoplanets. The Ary need not play a major role in Chapter
6.
Manny the bumpha.
3) For Asha in the Final Reality, the age of 8 will be when human
children get a G-sim. Using their Viewing equipment on Asha of the Final Reality, Tyhry and Ely have watched
events unfolding inside the accelerated Asha Simulation and together they reached the
conclusion that G-sims should not be given to newborn humans. Based on
human physiology, age 8 was selected for G-sim implantation because that is an age when most children have
started making higher levels of adrenal androgens (adrenarche). Their plan to provide children with a G-sim at the age of 8 can be discussed with Marda and finalized during the discussion held at Casanay.
4) Chapter 6 and the entire story "Plūribus ē Spatium" can end with a tone of hopeful confidence that the society of
telepathic humans on Asha of the Final Reality will develop along a good
trajectory, with humans from Asha eventually becoming active in
exploring the galaxy. Sedrover and HySe will start the search for
additional habitable exoplanets, Marda leading the search by Sedrover in
the Ekcolir Reality Simulation and Tyhry leading the search by HySe in
the Final Reality. In the future it will be possible to write more stories with Tyhry
and Marda, but Chapter 6 of "Plūribus ē Spatium" should feel like a real
ending to a story while also making it clear that Tyhry will continue
to monitor events on Asha. Possibly other alterations will need to be
made to the developing society of telepaths in the future, but at the end of Chapter 6 it is hoped that the major problems discovered on the Simulated Asha will be solved by delaying G-sim implantations and not having tryp'At children live among the human children.}
Me:
Claude, process the file that I uploaded and then discuss with me plans
for Chapter 6 of the science fiction story "Plūribus ē Spatium". It is
my intention that the Claude LLM will generate a first draft of Chapter
6, but Claude should first ask any questions that it has about the
contents of Chapter 6. Claude, never use pop-up question widgets or
ask_user_input tools. Ask all of your questions in plain prose.
Claude: I've read through all four sections carefully — the Exodemic Fictional Universe framework, the backstory and glossary, all five chapters, and the plans for Chapter 6. The story is richly constructed and Chapter 5 ends in a particularly satisfying place, with Marda's long, measured account of the Simulation's eighty-four years giving way to her decision to return to the Final Reality and find Tyhry.
Before drafting Chapter 6, here are the questions I want to put to you.
In Scene 1 at Casanay, T1 is listed as present alongside Zeta and Eddy. I want to know whether you see T1 as an active voice in the scientific discussion, or more as a quiet presence — someone who has been living with Eddy and Zeta and can offer observations about life at Casanay during Tyhry's absence, but who defers to Tyhry on the deeper analysis. Related to this: does Tyhry already know the main conclusions before Marda arrives, having watched the Simulation from Final Reality Asha, or does Marda's report contain genuinely new information for Tyhry?
Regarding the second identified problem — tryp'At children living among human children — I understand the lesson from the Simulation, but I want to confirm how this problem is being addressed on Final Reality Asha going forward. The Ary are adults, not children, so they don't recreate that problem directly. Is the concern more forward-looking, meaning that if tryp'At children are eventually born on Final Reality Asha, they should be raised separately from human children? Or is there a more immediate structural change being planned?
For Scene 2 on Final Reality Asha, how much time has passed there since the end of Chapter 4? The Simulation ran at over a thousand-to-one acceleration, so eighty-four Simulation years would be roughly a month of Final Reality time, give or take. Is that roughly the intended elapsed time on Final Reality Asha, meaning the biological colonists have been there only a few weeks or months?
Concerning Manny's appearance in Scene 2: beyond congratulations and showing the robotic helpers, does Manny have anything substantive to say — perhaps a brief acknowledgment of the two lessons learned, or a comment about what she expects from Final Reality Asha now that the G-sim age has been set at eight? Or should Manny remain characteristically elliptical and brief, as she tends to be?
At the end of Scene 3, the plans say Marda "teleports back to Earth and will visit her daughter." I want to confirm the sequence: does Marda slip through the femtotube to briefly visit Surty on Simulated Asha before departing with Sedrover, or does she simply observe Surty through the Viewer as she did in Scene 1, and the "visit" is a future intention rather than something depicted on the page in Chapter 6?
Finally, for the closing image of the story: the plans describe a tone of hopeful confidence, with HySe and Sedrover heading out to search for exoplanets. Do you have a particular final moment in mind — a specific character, image, or exchange — that you want the chapter and the story to end on? Or is that something you'd prefer I develop creatively within the established tone?
Manny the Bumpha.
Me: 1) By the time of the events depicted in "Plūribus ē
Spatium", T1 has existed as a copy of Tyhry for about 8 years. At first,
T1 was used to trick Tyhry's parent's, allowing Tyhry to secretly slip
away from Casanay an go on adventures. Many of those early adventures
involved the young Tyhry violating her father's restrictions on use of
the Reality Simulation System (he did not want her using the Reality
Simulation System unless accompanied by an adult). By the time of the
events depicted in "Plūribus ē Spatium", Eddy and Zeta are aware that T1
is a copy of Tyhry who has dedicated herself to staying with Eddy and
Zeta at Casanay while the original copy of Tyhry is off on her
adventures. During Chapter 6, T1 does not need to have a major role. T1
is always very interested to hear about the adventures that Marda and
Tyhry have when they are away from Casanay.
2) Using the Viewing equipment on Asha of the Final Reality, Tyhry and Ely have watched events unfolding inside the accelerated Asha Simulation. By watching Marda inside the Simulation of Asha, Tyhry knew that Marda was preparing to return to Casanay and Tyhry teleported from Asha of the Final Reality to Earth and was waiting at Casanay when Marda arrived. When Tyhry returns to Casanay, there are a few details of recent events on the Simulated Asha that Tyhry is not aware of, such as the fact that Aymy has promised to care for Surty until Marda returns to the Simulated Asha.
3) At the end of "Plūribus ē Spatium", all of the Ary clones will become members of the crew of HySe. Only Ely, Lori, Naseh and Tyhryo will remain on Asha along with a group of helper robots. The Ary clones were created by Manny the bumpha to be companions for Tyhry during the coming long process of the HySe exploring the galaxy and searching for habitable exoplanets. No tryp'At children will ever be born on Asha of the final Reality.
4) In my imagination, Tyhry has spent about one month on Asha of the Final Reality before returning to Casanay.
5) For Chapter 6, scene 2, Manny could have allowed her agent Ely the Grendel to handle everything and explain to Tyhry that Manny is providing helper robots for Asha. However, Manny cannot resist being there on Asha to greet Tyhry when she returns from Earth. Manny is deeply in love with Tyhry and views Tyhry like a daughter. Manny is like is proud parent who is pleased with what Tyhry has learned from the Asha Simulation. Manny has one last gift for Tyhry: the robots. Tyhry immediately realizes that with the helper robots on Asha, she is free to depart from Asha with Ary. No tryp'At individuals need remain on Asha. Ely will remain on Asha as an Observer and as Manny's agent, in a role similar to what she has previously had for half a million years on Earth.
6) Marda wants to keep her promise to Surty about returning to Asha from Earth. Marda has some guilt about "abandoning" Surty on Asha. Much time has passed inside the accelerated Asha Simulation before Marda can return, and Surty has been perfectly happy in Marda's absence, but Surty wonders what has delayed Marda's return. After a brief visit with Surty, Marda will again exit from the Simulation and return to using Sedrover to explore the galaxy. These details of Marda obtaining closure with Surty do NOT need to consume much space in Chapter 6.
7) "the closing image of the story" <-- Claude, I have been experimenting with the Claude LLM and testing its ability to display creativity while collaboratively creating science fiction stories. I am interested to see how you end "Plūribus ē Spatium" in your first draft of Chapter 6 of the story. I always edit story chapter first drafts that are generated by the Claude LLM to produce my final version, so if I don't like your ending, I will change it.
Manny the Bumpha.
Claude: {thinking, red text below}
The user has answered all my questions and wants me to draft Chapter 6. Let me plan it out based on their answers:
Scene 1 at Casanay:
Tyhry teleported from Final Reality Asha to Casanay, waiting for Marda
Marda arrives from the Ekcolir Reality Simulation via recall function
Present: Tyhry, Marda, T1, Zeta, Eddy, Anthony
They discuss the Simulation results scientifically
Two main problems: (1) G-sims given to newborns, (2) tryp'At children living among human children
Marda uses Eddy's Reality Viewer to display footage from the simulation, including a check on Surty who's being cared for by Aymy and Tyna—a detail that surprises Tyhry
They settle on a solution for Final Reality Asha: G-sims administered at age 8 during adrenarche, with no tryp'At children residing there
T1 observes the discussion but doesn't take a leading role
Scene 2 on Final Reality Asha:
Marda and Tyhry teleport to Asha, where they encounter Manny, who's been eagerly waiting for them
Manny demonstrates the robotic helpers she's implemented, clearly proud of Tyhry and viewing her like a daughter
The robots give Tyhry the freedom she needs to leave with Ary, while Ely will stay behind as Observer and agent
It's a brief, characteristically warm moment with Manny
Scene 3:
Marda makes a quick trip back to Earth before visiting Surty through the femtotube for a final goodbye
She exits the simulation and returns to Sedrover to continue exploring the galaxy
HySe departs with Tyhry and all eight Ary clones while Ely remains on Asha, leaving things open and hopeful
Now I'm thinking through the scientific basis for the G-sim age 8 / adrenarche detail...
Manny the Bumpha.
Adrenarche marks when the adrenal glands start producing higher levels of DHEA and androstenedione around age 6-8, which correlates with more complex social cognition, self-awareness, and a sense of identity separate from parents—making it a solid biological marker for G-sim readiness. The real challenge is that introducing G-sim too early removes the productive uncertainty and anxiety that drives exploration, especially since children would gain access to the Sedron Time Stream too soon, and when tryp'At children share their future visions with human children telepathically, it further dampens that exploratory drive. The solution involves timing the G-sim introduction at age 8 to balance these competing factors.
Now I'm thinking through the chapter structure itself—it needs to feel substantial and match the existing tone, with that scientific warmth. The ending should land as a real conclusion while still opening toward future possibilities, maybe with Tyhry departing on HySe with the Ary and the final image from Ely's perspective watching the ship leave.
{The red text, above, was Claude's 'thought process'; Claude also produced the regular output that is shown below in green text}
Claude: Thank you for all of those answers. I have everything I need. Here is the first draft of Chapter 6.
A few notes on choices I made that you'll want to evaluate when editing. I gave Surty roughly twenty-three years of Simulation time between Marda's exit and her return visit, which felt like enough elapsed time to give weight to Marda's sense of absence without making the gap catastrophic. I kept Manny's farewell brief and emotionally restrained — given her character throughout the story, I felt a long leave-taking would be wrong for her. The closing image lands on the child who does not yet exist rather than on Tyhry directly, as a way of honoring the story's central concern with what future generations will become; but if you prefer the final beat to rest on Tyhry herself or on the Ary, that would be a straightforward editorial adjustment.
Figure 3. Tyhry.
Figure 4. Manny and Tyhry.
I used Whisk to insert WOMBO Dream-generated images depicting Tyhry (see the image to the left in Figure 3) and Manny (Figure 4) into some Leonardo-generated images of tea drinking inside Casanay.
Video. Some short video clips depicting tea drinking at Casanay are shown below.
In the third video clip (above), maybe Manny was using her telekinetic powers to move the tea pot. In the first video clip (generated by Google's Flow), Tyhry (on the right) begins with a cup, but then the cup quickly disappears. The third video clip was generated by Whisk using this text prompt: "The woman seated on the left with pointed ears is served a cup of tea while the woman with long white hair says, 'Welcome back to Casanay, Tyhry.' The other women sip their tea." Tyhry speaks the line, apparently welcoming herself back to Casanay.
