Meanwhile

The Electoral Center

“Sophie,” asked as softly as possible the voice of Liam in her head.

“Yes?” she thought to herself.

“Are you watching the mercury rescue?”

“Not really. Should I? I am sure Daddy will do just fine. I went to wish him luck. The computer is great, it keeps him and Mall-Ik busy. They were floating in the ship. Did you go somewhere fun as I suggested?”

“Yes, Sweet one. I met the President and his team on earth. Your race grows on me.”

“You think they will be fine?”

“This Attraction, the Sixth Attraction is proving even more complex to anticipate as I had imagined. In my little boring world I had it all mapped out. Nothing is turning out as imagined it would yet,” she continued.

“It all makes sense.”

“Exactly.”

Sophie kept surprising her mentor by her capacity to read the web of events, she added, “If you try too hard to make sense of a dream, you cannot see the meaning. A dream is felt, it is emotions. Images just create emotions like my door to the accident always make me cry. It’s not about the accident.” Liam was proud of the young girl.

“When we have a moment after the game, I would love to train your mind in sociology, philosophy, meditation and all other mind reasoning exercises. I do not want to teach you what to do, but I think your visit to the Underworlds May have connected you on a deeper level with a greater wisdom. I would love to help.”

“Like a monk and her student? I love movies with a student and her teacher.”

“Precisely.”

“I agree, it is getting time for me to take this seriously. Marilyn said the game was to help the two crazy guys in the ship, not me. It will help them. But I think all of what is going on at the moment will one day be my fault.”

“This seems at the moment all a waste of time. But,” began Liam. He stopped himself dead in his tracks. The girl was, as usual right.

“Yes?”

“Nothing.”

“Say it.”

He was committed. The Attractor was asking, he had to speak. “How can the living computer project such a clear reality and images from your hot planet mercury. Recreating life on earth is one thing, but to do this game with any level of certainty, she needs to know so many parameters that simply cannot be known. Nothing has even been to mercury. The electromagnetic forces are way too strong.”

“What’s the problem?”

“She is very strong, very powerful. She makes no sense to me.”

“Of all the things going on, she is the simplest to me. Remember the only thing she asked me in the Underworlds. She refused to be stuck there.”

“What does that suggest?”

“She has a deep desire to live. She knows here, one way or another she lives past the Sixth Attraction.“