Black Roses

Music=

1. Gone Away- The Offspring

2. Stay Don't Go- Spoon

"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are"

- Confucius

UFOtext=

"Yes, A, I found out where they took the Dragon!"

deep forest of possibility-

tigers of fire & ice,

testing virtue & vice-

deep forest of possibility…..

And Astira looked up from her iPad with excitedness-

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Meanwhile- for the Count every day with the Princess became the apple of his Eye. Night after night she locked up his heart as if a chain of iron roses…..

Probability Tree

Music=

1. Hope (Instrumental)- Smashing Pumpkins

2. Look Back In- Moby

UFOtext=

"Look, M, I construct probability tree." and Astira turned her iPad filled with strange math & 1 diagram toward Miss Change.

"We need 2 get very lucky 2 get on this branch. If we do get on this branch then we must be thanksful & make gr8 effort to make right turns. Is only hope on tree…."

Possibility Tree

Music=

1. Linger- The Cranberries

"Hold faithfulness & sincerity as first principles."

- Confucius

UFOtext=

"Let's think of the future as a tree of possibilities- as we travel along a branch our time flows into the future. Important events are branching points where future history chose which branch to follow. These branching events can be unpredictable for a travelling observer with limited information. Thus we must consider all possible branching pathways into our future- the future endpoints on our tree can be spectacularly different…."

And so for Layla Elliott & Mark de Valentine the trees of autumn turned to spectacular falling beauty...

Now= 0 → Future= 1 or 0

Music=

Now= Our Bleeding Hearts- Gr8 Northern

Future= Square 1- Coldplay

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

- Confucius

UFOtext=

"Where is the Dragon?" asked Astira, looking at Miss Change.

"Yes- my Master lives in the present & sees into the future." said Miss Change, lowering her eyes.

"Where in the present?" asked Astira.

"Yes- the place forseen in the future of the past, the present place where the future of the present can be changed." and the dragonfly closed her eyes to see more clearly.

"Can the Dragon change the present future of the Silk Path?" asked Astira.

"Yes- the goal of my Master is to preserve the Silk Path for many thousands of years."

"Is the goal accomplished?" asked Astira.

"No- the balance of the Silk Path is very unstable." and the dragonfly opened her eyes & looked up across the milky glow of a vast ribbon of stars.

After a few minutes of heavenly quiet & a shooting star, Astira said

"From hero to zero, that is us for sure- but I have plan & maybe we get lucky break- for a change."

One Or Zero

Music=

1. Learn To Fly- Foo Fighters

2. Stand Inside Your Love- Smashing Pumpkins

"Do or do not. There is no 'try.'"

- Confucius

UFOtext=

Astira rushed out of darkness & called out-

"Miss Change! Let's get out of here- I have mail truck!"

The dragonfly then opened her eyes to the material reality of the rapid universe.

"Yes- the delivery girl. Are you the mouse or the lion?" she asked.

"Wtf!? I am Astira of the Second Foundation!" And for once Astira felt the joy of stating the naked truth.

"I sense a ring of tigers. We do not have much times!" And Astira drew her laser pistol & ushered Miss Change into the darkness.

Tiger, tiger, burning bright

In the forests of the night.......

And Astira felt the blast of emotional heat- psychohistory didn't repeat- but it could rhyme….

Samhain

Music=

1. 1979- Smashing Pumpkins

UFOtext=

The Dragon of the Black Market felt the drag of acceleration double his weight as the lights of Temasek fell away- the carnival in Italy so many years ago- the double cross of the Count- Layla & the conception of their daughter Simona- all memory dust now scattered across the stars…….

And just below Miss Change & the delivery girl would fall prey to the burning tigers- if they were not dead already. All psychohistory of the Second Foundation- nothing more.

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Astira multitask = {sense wave 1 heat of emotions- ring of tigers, now danger for Dauphine June bug skimming on Silk Path}

Choose One Or Zero

Music=

1. They Never Got You- Spoon

"Person who chases two rabbits catches neither."

- Confucius

UFOtext=

Simona de Valentine listened to the Foundation engineer explain the theory behind the hyperjump- "largescale waves of thermodynamic curved spacetime emerge from the collective behavior of prespacetime "atoms of information". A quantum spray of these atoms can disconnect from the largescale spacetime continuum & then reconnect- a quantum hyperjump. The Protostar will harness this quantum prespacetime effect in a brand new & untested way." And then he stopped & looked at Simona,

"Are you with us- you could be the very first person to step through our new spacetime hyperdoor….."