ARC OF THE IMMORTALS Book 2

Time Rifts-22: Entangled

A Reassessment

Recap of Chapter 21 A Rent in Reality: Touzdae feels compelled and a momentarily confused about to see the murder of her counterpart. This is her counterpart in the alternate reality where she resides. DKr. Malley takes her to a room that is composed of materials like the healing chamber on the Nez Fish and the space aboard the Obz Station. Her cottage on Theta Prime in the Wilds — a rural area in her days of Multiversity. She sees Bendel having killed her Bendel. But she believes this is not her Bendel who is dead and sees him as a monster, a beast within a man. Touzdae see her counterpart attacked by the beast.

Jac is released and transported back to his quarters by the smaller group of Gypsums. He shivers in his cabin and sees Touzdae being killed by a beast.

Current Episode:

Radical parameters, same location between a pulsar and a black hole.

“Jump!”

Two gigantic ships jumped through one another.

Ghost images of the two ships merged and faded. Two images of every person, every bulkhead, hatch, and ship — faded into and out of each other. Some people merged halfway into their doppelgängers and some did not. The forward rate of motion slowed.

It slowed further. It appeared to stop; running attoseconds forward, oscillation — again in attoseconds — backward.

Jac touched the ball control on the edge of the helm chair. It descended from the observation bubble overhead onto the deck of the bridge. He hoisted himself onto the deck. Touzdae stood from the navigational arrays.

“Nez has the controls. We’re on course to home,” Jac said.

“Dinner then in the Captain’s Cabin?” Touzdae smiled.

Jac smiled — his face lit up, and he nodded ‘Yes’.

Moments later they were in the Captain’s Cabin of the Nez Fish.

“I have missed you, Touzdae. Every night when I fall to sleep my entire being aches for you,” he said to her. They took each other’s hands for a second.

Dreamtime? they both thought.

And wrenched out of dreamtime…

“Reset,” the command was shouted on both ships through all spaces aboard each ship.

They returned to their dimension in agony. Bodies half merged with people and metal from the opposite dimensions.

“Again,” someone shouted the order.

Ghost images appeared the same as before. They merged and separated. Merged and separated.

The ships separated into their own dimensions outside the arc. Everyone was okay. No mergers between people or things.

“Let’s not do that again,” Captain Tommalar stated, relieved.

“More study?” Jac wondered.

“Did you leave a dream and wake up on another ship a few seconds ago?” Touzdae asked.

“Yes — I did. That must mean — ” Jac began to wake within the dream.

Touzdae: — We’re in dreamtime.”

“Right,” Jac acknowledged. “In a place that was safe in the past.”

Touzdae: Exactly. [pause] Did we come here to solve a problem?

“You know how alternate realities work when their quantum entangled, right?” Jac asked Captain Tommalar.

Jac dissociated into a dreamtime state:

Jac: Love.

Touzdae: Love is a problem?

Jac: Love is the solution.

Touzdae: Ah… I see. The two Mu-s in the two separate realities are —

Jac: Quantum entangled.

Touzdae: Right. And Love is the answer.

“Jac? Jac? Come back here Jac,” Tommalar put his large hand on Jac’s shoulder.

“Yes right. Time is fracturing for me.” He cleared his throat. “Where was I? Yes…So it’s no wonder that our tactics haven’t been working. Right?” Jac remarked. “The timeline broke into pieces. Something like love as a cohesive agent. Of course love must have another agent, another emotion.”

“Like fear, hatred, and rage,” Tommalar said and laughed.

“You know how alternate realities work when their quantum entangled, right?” Jac asked Captain Tommalar.

“Well, let’s see if I remember the 9–10 reality bundle,” Tommalar said.

“I remember it as the nine reality guidelines, but okay. What is the 9–10 reality bundle?” Jac asked.

“There’s are eight to nine supporting realities that wrap around this one. But… if circumstances are right a second or third reality could split open from this one. Meaning everyone that was on board when the split happened has a duplicate or two in one or two alternate realities.” the Captain explained.

“So it’s no wonder that our tactics haven’t been working. Right?” Jac remarked. He added, “Something like love as a cohesive agent. And of course, love must have another agent, another emotion.”

“Like fear, hatred, and rage,” Tommalar said and laughed. “Didn’t I say that already?”

Over the next six weeks, each side tried the variations. The love-hate, love-fear, and love-rage combinations. None worked.

The Entu Monks in both realities were invited to the discussions. Always there were many who laughed. The monks told the team that the third element was missing — neutrality. A third person joined to the team aboard the Needlecraft. Entu Monks and long-term serious meditators were the neutral observers. These combinations didn’t work either.

Jac and Touzdae conferred in dreamtime to help coordinate efforts on both sides.

Jac: Time is out of joint somehow. Touzdae: Right. When the two ships merged the ghost-like images are half blending with doppelgängers and things. Then “poof” it was undone… Jac: What are you getting at? Touzdae: That happened in the future but repeated in the past — Jac/Touzdae: So it doesn’t happen again! Touzdae: I feel confused. Jac: My mind feels like an Atlantian Pretzel.

Jac insisted Suke speak at the next debrief. She listened. When they exhausted every avenue she spoke.

“What is the intended result?” Suke asked.

“Two or three possible outcomes,” Captain Tommalar began. “One we take the dominant position. They take the dominant position. Or we merge.”

“You defended yourselves in the battles with the Reptoids. They exploded nukes and you exploded nukes. Two realities formed. Is that right?”

Everyone in the discussions nodded in the affirmative.

“I see that when we choose the three options you gave, Captain Tommalar, we are defeating ourselves. The first two positions are about an endless polarity of domination and subjugation. Cut them. We merge or we don’t. If we allow for two realities to exist then we can share the arc.

“Merging could be the neutral position. Tolerating each other in two realities inside the arc is the denying principle.” She paused for a sip of water. “The active position is Higher Love.”

“We need more. We need the logistics. I don’t get it.” Someone shouted out.

“A neutral position is where there is no attachment to any outcome. Tolerating our fears of the other is the denying principle. It creates a boundary. The active principle is love.” Suke restated and simplified. “The law of three removes the opposing energy from the polarity/duality. Everything works.”

Jac stood and applauded. Tommalar followed Jac’s lead. Moments later everyone stood and applauded.

“Is this not the law of three, presented by the Entu Monks on board?” Jac said.

Touzdae and Jac lounged near the Tree of Life by the holographic pool and sky in the main salon of the Nez Fish. They were in dreamtime. After eating grapes and bread, Jac presented Touzdae with the plan. Touzdae laughed. Her plan was similar and used the law of three too.

DKr. Malley said the same as Suke, Touzdae thought to Jac.

They each tweaked the plans to sync and be out of sync at key junctures.

“Once more into the void!” Captain Tommalar proclaimed. “It’s an expression. Please don’t take it literally.”

“Jump!” Touzdae and all the other pilots, copilots, and neutral observers jumped.

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