See The Possibility

Possibility

Music=
1. My Love Is Winter- Smashing Pumpkins

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I. The White Castle

A slim shadow of black jade slipped through the dreamy mist. The lithe figure ran east- running along the castle's southern rampart facing the sea. Astira peered intently at the magnified image on her i5- she could see the slender upper body of the running figure just above the white stone parapet. But the figure soon vanished back into the mist- leaving no trace of its fleeting presence. The winter sun slowly burned away the mist, and chains of silent clouds now moved across the high blue morning sky. Astira quietly opened her eyes.

II. Twinkling Star
"There is no rest." thought Princess Lei.
The Great Wall of ancient red stars stretched across the holo screen from the Pearl Clouds in the Far East, all the way to the Druid Nebula at the gate to the western skies and the remote edge of the galaxy- home of the Foundation.
She leaned back into her cushioned chair, and felt the Foundation holo screen wrap around her- as if she rode upon a celestial chair through the heavens. She reached up in wonder, and cupped the warm glow of the Pearl Clouds within her hand.

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The Hard Fall

Galactic Plane

Music=

1. Low- Coldplay

2. Feel The Ocean Hold Me Under- Snakadaktal

"Settle one difficulty, & you keep a hundred away."
- Confucius

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I. White Cliffs

Astira watched the luminous cloud move across the grid map on her i5- a group of riders will be here within minutes she thought. She flipped her i5 into silent mode & stashed it into a deep pocket. She looked around.

There was nowhere to hide & nowhere to run- except for the grassy edge of the nearby cliff. The abrupt boundary of the cliff snaked through the air, running below a vast expanse of blue green sea that merged into a far horizon of mist & fading stars.

Friends or foes? No way to know & she didn't want to take a chance. She ran to the edge of the cliff- stopped- found her balance & stared down a sheer face of rock slamming into the blue green sea below. Majestic spires of breaking white foam scaled the wall of rock. Just below the edge she spied a small outcrop- just wide enough for support. She hopped over the edge of the cliff & landed securely on the ledge. She looked back up at the edge of the cliff & smiled. Suddenly she heard the fierce cry of a hawk, & she looked to her right- she watched the hawk with its long wing span fly up the side of the cliff in a nearly vertical & parabolic arc.

II. Far East

"History evolves from the actions of people- those actions are the result of human psychology- & that psychology has a mind of its own- not something that can be easily predicted in a simple & linear way. Can you predict what your emotions will be one day from now?"

The Dragon turned away from the changing waters of the bay. He engaged the eyes of Kwon Ping & Princess Lei, & then continued his arc of thought.....

Later that evening Princess Lei stood on her small hotel balcony overlooking the bay. Below her the flickering lights of the city changed randomly, almost chaotically.

If the Dragon is right, she thought, then the psychology of our galaxy has been diverted off course. What could one mere human being ever do to change the flow of history back to normal?

She sighed, & then gazed upward into the dark night- the galactic plane fell majestically from the sky in a waterfall of stars.

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White Mist

White Mist

Music=
1. Got Nuffin- Spoon
2. Rock Wit U- Alicia Keys

“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.” 

― Confucius

I. White Cliffs

"A- time to wake up."

The almond eyes of the Dragonfly softly emerged from the dark. Astira swayed off balance- the diffuse light of the world coming into focus. She shuddered at the infinite thought still warm and wrapped around her body. Her lapse of proper time ticked but a fraction of a second- but her mind lingered on the afterimage. She staggered but then recovered her balance. She looked around. The image faded into a white mist hovering above her surroundings- an autumn green field stretching out from the zirconium arc. A faint scent of the sea and the sound of distant breakers confirmed her destination- the White Cliffs. She flipped out her i5.

II. Far East

"The Silk Path holds great promise for the future- I see growth coming from all regions of the galaxy- the Far East, the Eurozone & the Foundation." Kwon Ping paused and waited for a response from Princess Lei and the Dragon. Princess Lei smiled knowingly, but the Dragon's Zen turned away from the Now- he gazed upon the changing waters of the bay.

"Kwon Ping- what you say is true. Threats from the falling Empire and the Barbarian Clans recede, and the galactic skies are filled with young blue stars and space pilots. But there is a new danger- something unknown and not understandable by conventional thinking."

The Dragon paused. Princess Lei furrowed her brow and pondered the Dragon.

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Cornucopia

Cornucopia

Music=
1. The Sacred & Profane
  - Smashing Pumpkins

2. Chained- The xx

“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.”

― Confucius

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I. Wormhole-

Free fall- Astira felt no weight in her cocoon of spacetime. She could not see her body- only a faint red glow emanating from a warm black velvet. She lost all sense of Time and could not feel the beating of her heart. She tried to breathe but she could not. She felt fear, but for the first time in her life she felt up close to something infinite- yet warm.

II. Paris-

Late in the morning, the Count sat with Voltaire on the balcony. They enjoyed Turkish coffee, croissants, fruit, a poached egg with scalloped potatoes & a white truffle.

"Count, we do not live in the best of all possible worlds. Be grateful for any wings of liberty that free us from our chains."

The Count smiled thinly. He gazed up at a chain of clouds anchored to the light blue heavens.

III. Far East

There is no such thing called Time- only the change of things & their relation. If change would ever stop- there could be no universe- no birth, no life, no unfolding of the lotus petals- only the eternal & timeless death of something that is nothing because it never changes.

"Yes, what are you thinking?" asked the Dragonfly.

The Dragon turned away from the Zen of the glittering waters, so beautiful & calm after the passing of the typhoon. He looked into his daughter's liquid eyes.

"The Empire falls- all according to a branch on the tree of psychohistory. The Mule rises- a black swan branch apart from the tree of psychohistory. It is time for us to change in ways we never thought of. Perhaps Princess Lei might be useful in that regard."

"Yes, Time will tell." said the Dragonfly.

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Cornucopia Symbol

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More Than A Galaxy

Star Gate

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1. Home- Great Northern

“Time flows away like the water in the river. ” 
― Confucius

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I. The Wormhole

Astira stepped back into the lost millennia of history- the ancient temple site predated the Galactic Empire. An arc of zirconium alloy bounded a shimmering optical field. In essence this optical door opened to a crude hyperspace transport found on an ancient spacecraft- not an actual wormhole. Space time wormholes were far too unstable & dangerous for travel. Still, Astira balked & felt queasy- would this contraption work? The alternative was to travel on a spacecraft- but that would be detected. She didn't want anybody to know she was in town for a visit- not even those in the now compromised Second Foundation.

She meditated calmly & watched a nutty squirrel run up the side of the zirconium arc. She then took a very deep breath & walked into the shimmering field of light.

II. Home

One could love people in society at large & in the abstract- but the animal spirit loves those that are close & well known. Such is life.
Princess Lei spied her sister standing in the bright maples of the Far East. She waved & at once there were no stars in the galaxy.

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Something To Dream About

Twinkling Star

Music=
1. I Just Want To Have Something To Do
-Ramones
2. Blew Away
-Smashing Pumpkins

"Words are the voice of the heart."

― Confucius

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I. Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais

Coquelles- the ancient star gate at the opening of an antique & long forgotten worm hole twisting through space & time; Astira knew the opposite end of the hole opened up at the majestic White Cliffs of Dover. The ivory cliffs formed a natural high barricade for the castle of the White Queen. Here, the hidden passage would lead her to Archimedes & Merlin- key members of the Second Foundation.

But tonight she roamed the streets of Coquelles. The French blue dusk deepened in a golden bloom of stars. Her i5 lit the way.

II. Paris

Thieves in the night, the Count led Voltaire down a discrete and narrow series of steps cut from the rock on the moonlit banks of the Seine. A poachers' darkened boat moved gently up and down on the water, moored to heavy iron rings deeply embedded into rock. The Count signaled with a small gesture of his hand- a small airlock opened and a short ramp materialized. Within a few short seconds the Count & Voltaire entered the Twinkling Star.

"Monsieur X, the Foundation agent Sauveur has paid us in full, and now we pay you with interest," said the Captain.

"All is well then." said the Count.

"But tell me Captain, where is your Princess Lei?"

"You know her then?" asked the Captain, with a curious look.

"Who really knows anybody in our world?" replied the Count.

"Well, Monsieur X, the Princess travels everywhere at a moments notice- nobody knows where she is half of the time."

"I see." said the Count. And he gazed at her red table as though it were a sacred Valentine.

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Just Follow The Crowd

Birthday Boys

Music=
1. Revolution 1- The Beatles 
(Slow version on White Album)

"Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil." 
-Albert Camus



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I. Prague
She read the email-
"Astira-
I admire your use of Ramanujan graphs in psychohistory. But the Mule never heard of this, nor does he care. You are in great danger in Euro Sector, come here b4 it's too late!
Archimedes"

Astira smiled faintly & remembered the Petersen graph from her student days. But she had gone way beyond Ramanujan graphs in possibility branch construction- Archimedes should know this. Something was wrong, very wrong- like in brainwashed zombie of Mule.
But then she thought-
"If Archimedes ok, then Archimedes want to test Astira. This test to see if Astira imposter!"
In ten minute she book flight out of town. Her i5 confirm. She have plan.
She get ticket to ride out of Mule's Utopia Of Worlds.

II. Londontown
Sauveur continued.
"Look, we all know actions & results speak louder than words. Strongly socialistic systems create an idealized world of false virtue which separates people from the natural & practical virtues of real life. We are not meant to be insects in a colony, but individuals in a free society."

Savage British Ban

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