The Goodbye

Paris

Music=

1. Destination
    Unknown- 

  Smashing Pumpkins

2. Fiction- The xx

"Everything has its beauty,
But not everyone sees it."
- Confucius

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8PM- 

"So- you shall return to live in the Far East?" the Count asked.

Princess Lei lowered her eyes and then looked up into his.

"Yes, my life is in the Far East- not here in Paris."

"I see- before you go I have a small farewell gift."

The Count walked over to a small unusual cabinet, turning the archaic lock with a skeleton key.

"Princess, safeguard this small box & only open it on a special day. It is a token of our friendship."

The Count bowed & gave her the small box. They held hands for a moment and brushed cheeks. She took the small box into her hands, exploring the highly unusual and archaic object- something that seemed to be from a previous century. She smiled and then they said goodbye.

A few moments later later the Count stood at the balcony and watched the Princess fly away as if a butterfly in the night. Just like the laughing Buddha and the hidden door leading to the Pearl of Dreams, she was now a closed chapter in his life. But the Yang diamond had found a new home.

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Awaken

Sumer Dream

Music=
1. French Renaissance Song-
   A Krylov (lute)
2. Day After Day- Badfinger

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I. Mountain Castle

The Empire ruled by death & taxes. Princess Lei greeted the Trantorian Royal Ambassador, bowing to acknowledge her second tier status.

"Please rise." said the Ambassador.

"Now tell me Lei, what troubles your pretty little head?"

A sympathetic mime expression like a tragic mask drew tightly over his face.

"Ambassador, it is the third arrow of reform." she said.

"The third arrow?"

He looked around as if confused.

"Oh dear- I think I've lost count!"

The Ambassador then smiled broadly & laughed, turning to his amused court. She felt nothing that she had not felt before- a thousand times over. She looked up at the distant stars that formed a celestial roof in the castle ruins- she regained her balance.

The Ambassador turned back to her and said-

"My fair Princess, I'm looking everywhere for that third arrow!"

Suddenly with no warning the Ambassador jolted backward with a sickening thud, clutching with horror an arrow buried deep within his chest. She knew the war between the stars had just begun.

The Count held the sleeping Princess in his arms. The Pearl of Dreams could reveal the Truth and the Future- whether good or bad. Her eyes darted about beneath beautiful closed lids- he held her gently as she began to wake. Perhaps the Truth and the Future were too much for mere mortals to bear.

II. Paris

6 PM- the Count rose from a chair and walked to the balcony. There below on the street- like a summer butterfly- the Princess flitted about the flowering pedestrians, making her way to the Count's door.

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Ascend

Studio

Music=
1. Why Can't This Be Love-
Van Halen

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Time never stops- unless you are the twinkling light of a distant star! Princess Lei looked across the bizarre moonscape of the high mountains- the ruins of an ancient castle stood high above her, cloaked in dark shadows of the full white moon. She touched her black diamond, the smooth black angular facets opened like tiny hyper-dimensional doors leading to all the distant corners of the galaxy. One of those black doors lead to the castle ruins above her- the mysterious shadow of a fallen Empire.

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Dream #3- Time Splits

Sunset In Pyrenees by JD Innes

Music=
1. Spanish Fly-
2. Right Now-
    Both songs
    by Van Halen

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She had two weeks to turn around history. Kings & Queens ruled over their empires, but even Kings & Queens were servants to Time.

The red heat of the Basque sun died in the cold starry night- so tired, her thoughts trailed off into diffuse streams. But the mountains brought clarity and strength- a bright dream coming true.

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First Foundation

i1

Opinion

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The garden path shown in faint silver light beneath the intergalactic night. A black silhouette seemed to float upon the faint silver path- as if a mysterious spirit. Here Beta could free her mind of distraction, & think in clear deep streams of thought. Here the psychology of the crowd gave way to the individual light of reason- much as the Diamonds slowly rose in the eastern sky. Here she
could breathe free & liberate her heart.

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