2025 Novella
What was Christina doing from 11 to 16? how about 16 to 23? How did the crew of the boat find her?
Maybe some backstory on Joe and Gerry, just for practice and weaving the three stories. Especially Joe's and Christina's. How did he find, select her?
This begins to be unwieldy, I could convert to chapters and link chapters to the novella.
Date Dance
Ritual Female preparation
Exploit
Christina and Gerry's meet
Weeks before Christina arrived, he was attempting to hack the mediatronic ubiquity, the boxes
We tried to explain the spying spook, but then Christina was at the cabin door.
Joe's parting speech to the Clique, flashback for Christina?
"Again, I'll just break the fourth wall and explain, for the story is subtle and without a friendly voice over you might miss out. I, Uncle Joe have just altered the future by changing kids who are alive now, or to be more accurate, I colonized the future to reach back Michael Brown Presence Process style and alter our experience of the past, our childhood memories. Eerie, eh? You've probably guessed at this point I'm a member of a spiritual elite, and by the standards of sleepers such as yourself we are a bunch of malevolent mofos. I get that! . I'm not going to pull the old cinematic trope of tricking the audience into rooting for the antagonist. Actually, I'm the protagonist of this story, even if I am a rebel angel. Satan rebelled against God, but that's another story, my story is based solidly on science. The science of tomorrow that is. Archetypically speaking, I'm the Trickster. In the Gary Gygax 1974 D and D alignment, I'd be chaotic good, like Coyote. In this story, there are some difficult choices, even for god-like entities. Especially for. I guess I'd like to ask you to hold off on preconceptions and have fun, and maybe if we're lucky we'll all open our hearts and minds.
So in the beginning was the word, so says the bible and in this science fiction post apocalyptic romatic comedy words are a future technology. Back in the 2020s folks were all about AI prompts, the right words given to AIs could unlock super powers, they thought. Except those early AI's were all spiked with BS. A spell, incantation, word magic, lines of code, the logic of instantiation, non instrumentality. If you like Abraham Hicks this whole universe is one humungous riff, hi Ester! Later on we'll attend a People's Poetry Slam that basically reboots oral tradition, but whereas that's only a 'performance', when I use the words in collaboration with this iStone, the words become things, events, outcomes.
What did i change just then? I've guided Christina since she was young, gave her the tools to ride out the events. I've guided others to become vessels for the divine. Maybe multiple goddess, why not? What a wild success that would be. What I did just now, the extinction event has not yet happened, but I'm here in the field preparing for the denouement, which I will have done, but different. I coaxed the leonid neighbors down, but aimed at the Clique hidey holes, what I just did was alter what I was to do, and now it's already done. Now the Clique is weak, and the Daugther(s) of God can show up, and hang around, help the people. More about the why of that later. I taught the future because there was no way to stop me, because now it's already done.
Joe rides to prepare Christina for Gerry, and vice versa. Lots of apocalypses have already happened. The coup de grace of asteroid collision to wipe out the majority of remaining human life on several continents, that either didn't happen yet, or happened backwards according to Joe's hack. The Clique hunkered down, concentrated in several safe zones with the asteroids intended to wreck havoc every place else but where the Clique were hiding. Result, less global catastrophe and dramatic reduction in Clique population.
So the question is, when we meet Joe, has he already done that? Nixed the Clique?
Circumstance is my plaything