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"Latvia translation: The brave and wise came together / English: Close your eyes Just feel and realize / It is real and not a dream I'm in you and you're in me / It is time to break the chains of life / if we follow we will see What's beyond reality / Latin translation: Don't be angry my lord or remember iniquity forever; behold the Holy City is a desert" Beyond the Invisible by Enigma
Crying into a poor substitute, I consider "Love?" No because to love is to know and I don't know him. To an average person they would be happy and thinking merrily about the way he looks into their soul with those ancient eyes. And that sweet magnetic pull that lulls you into feeling safe even though the predator is just waiting for the right time to kill. I wish to stay in lalaland but I can't… in the moments we aren't together I can't forget that he means to kill everyone. He's planning to kill all human life on Earth while I'm prancing and flirting with him, the angel of death. How can I be so selfish?
I want to spend the rest of the week in an isolation chamber and sleep till we meet again. But what about my friends, my co-workers, and people that aren't part of the company? I could just tell myself that they don't care, that they don't want to know, that they like living in blissful ignorance. It is the first time in my life that I don't want to think long term… I just want to think about now.
But now I wish he was here. I should have figured out how to make him stay forever or at least until sunrise. Feeling like a failure, I feel the urge to take my anger out on the lion android. I grab its mane and pull as hard as I can… Then I'm afraid of myself. Was I truly capable of destroying something only for the sake of feeling better for a few moments?
"I'm here!" shouts Diana full of herself. "So you survived another encounter with the overlord."
I spat, "spy much? And why aren't you in a jealous fit of rage over I being ten years younger?"
Laughing at me, "wow it went that well? At least you are still alive… Tael told me you needed me. Oh! When mom is reinstated I'll get all the ReGenX I want. Also, we have enough new technology to ask for more. I know you hate jewelry but do you like the necklace?"
"I'm sorry; I'm not feeling like myself. Yes, I do. Did your part of the company made it?"
"Yes but not me. May I see it?"
I stand up and come closer to her "see".
"very funny, you know I want the info on it."
"don't you have it? Since you made it?"
"only what's on Earth's system not what is blocked from us and I want to see my home-world, the planet that bears mom's last name."
"I don't remember asking for that?
With a mischievous look she said "Tael did for us, you and me. You wanted to know where your best-est friend's family came from but where afraid to ask for more."
"it's supposed to stay on my skin"
"not really, I need to add the rest so that it just has to be near you. We didn't want you to become more attached to superboss." She said bringing out four silver rings. I held my hands out and she puts one on each ring finger and both fourth toes. I already can't stand them; I can't stand jewelry it makes me feel like a slave and being owned.
Then she started scrolling through the planets. She told me she now has contacts that she attuned to my device and she can switch it to whichever device she wants to hack into. She found Kepler a mostly green planet with manmade structures that blended with nature's surroundings. It was odd that she only saw it for a few seconds.
"Let's go home" she said joyfully.
"I don't want to go home. I want to go see my sperm donor err father and then reconnect with my overly controlling."
"Well at least your pessimism and long term planning hasn't changed. I'm going to guess it's to say goodbye. First, we want to see what would be the best program to recode and renew your cells. Superboss is going to ask for it soon. And mom has this crazy idea that you are my long lost great-aunt. Then we can go wherever you want on Earth, except to Planets house till that overdose wears off."
"I feel as if it's the first time we have met but I could be wrong. Ok, and then we'll go see my father?"
"Yes, you'll love breaking company rules entering that building and getting him out of work early!"
"Can Leo stay at your house, I don't think the neighbors would appreciate an android lion and for someone to drive my car home." I requested.
Oh she did the silly hand waving and said, "All that small detail stuff is now beneath you, the company and all that serve it will take care of such things so that you only have to think about the important tasks."
"I don't want to become an invalid"
"We aren't going to start the helicopter incident again? Are we?"
"Not today."
At the Kepler residence Katrina, Diana's mom narrows her eyes in anger and then puts on a fake smile as she greets me. We take underground passages to come up in the middle of the forest area of the property where a gazebo with lots of machines and a small lagoon full of goo overlooks the natural green undergrowth.
I get closer to the goo. I don't like goo. Backing away because I think Diana will push me in at any moment, I ask what the pool is used for and if this was where Lord Balem was threatening to drown me. And if they can reverse the ten years.
Katrina replies that they don't have enough ReGenX-E for that but the solution in the pool is for reading DNA and its expressions. No on the ten years and why would anyone want to reverse such a thing. Diana encourages me by saying she already has gone through it and that it's nice and cozy like being in a womb.
…
Camilla starts to take her clothes off but Tael and Sothis take over the task and to everyone's relief she lets them. Katrina tries takes Lord Balem's present from Kami while telling her it has at least five feet range using the chip on the back of your neck. The standard chip all humans born at a medical facility get installed. But she still refuses to let go and Katrina states that master will understand that it will interfere with the full reading of DNA. Also that it contains the information for Kepler, Orous, and other planet's best and important imprints which she would like to compare to Kami's DNA.
While she lets go of the necklace, she asks, "What is the purpose of Orous citizenship other than not being harvested?" while she takes off the rings and is upset a Diana for not waiting till after this to give those obnoxious symbols of ownership to her.
"The same as being a U.S. citizen, you get to vote for the companies pre-chosen candidates for the top government positions. You will be above all other planet's citizens except Entitleds can still treat you like an animal but higher than a splice." Katrina answers.
Kami looks at the solution with dread as Tael and Sothis lower her into it. "It's cold" she squeals as Diana tells her to pretend she is drowning in it and to let go of all the air in her lungs to replace it with the solution. Diana promises it will become warm. The last air bubbles come up.
Diana was right it does feel relaxing and warm. I wish I could stay here for the rest of the week but that's running away instead of using the time I've been given wisely, Kami thought as she fell asleep.
Diana asks her mom if Kami is alright and Katrina shows her daughter how to read the machine. Katrina makes a copy of the info off the necklace in a separate portable drive and gives it to Diana. And jokingly says, "Now you two are twins."
Then asks Diana "do you feel that?" and Diana replies, "No, what is it that I should feel or note?"
Katrina is disappointed that three of the company's birth control mistakes can feel Earth's energy undercurrent and not her own daughter. Maybe she can learn it.
Katrina brings her daughter closer to the pool and asks, "do you feel it now?" and Diana still answers "NO! Just tell me!" So she asks Tael and Sothis.
Tael says "yes, would you like me to describe it?" and Sothis says, "I know there's something different in the atmosphere but I can't describe it"
"No it's ok, I will. Kami, like three of the mistakes, has been able to directly connect to the Earth's source magnetic core. I can on Kepler but here on Earth I can only use the energy that is given to everyone daily." Katrina disappointed at herself
"What is she doing with it" Diana asks.
"I don't know, I can't read Earth's that well yet… she's probably doing it involuntarily." Katrina turns the scan on and electricity fills the solution sparking everywhere but the pulse from Kami's doesn't stop.
Katrina calls 01, 02, and 03 to test them and tell them to make Kami stop. 01 says it's calling G-d for help, 02 says G-d's love for everyone, and 03 says ahavah. If that was what Kami was doing Katrina wouldn't be annoyed. Tael comments that maybe she's calling their master. 01 – 03 ask Kami to stop and she does.
The results are in matching two planets and Katrina asks Diana to pull Kami out. But Tael insists on that she needs to do so to have a better bond to her. Katrina agrees, telling Tael to only wear her undergarments and show her true self to Kami.
Tael wades in to pull her out. Kami's lungs are full of solution that she can't cry; Tael places her on her lap while Diana and Sothis also help to wipe the solution off. When Kami can finally breathe, she cries into Tael's shoulder. And an hour later while she is giggling over Tael's purring, they tell her she only 13% Kepler and Katrina comments that she was at least 34% during the last DNA reading she had when Jupiter and her trespassed.
What's the other planet Diana whispers to her mother? It is a primitive planet that won't help her status at all, her mom replies. Katrina looks into Kami's eyes and says maybe you where Aunt Annabelle at the beginning but after all the ReGenX from that planet we don't understand, it has changed your structure. ReGenX can change an open person's DNA. It isn't that rare but we don't talk about those incidents.
"If you where Annabelle you could fix this mess we are currently in and make our master more stable, she had a way of getting master to do what she wanted and still avoiding our last owner's wrath. That's an extremely challenging thing to do considering that our last owner was overly possessive of our company's guardian. It is a miracle that master is still alive and hasn't tried to end his life.
Listen carefully and take heed of my words. Promise us that you won't play mini psychologist or Dr. Freud with our master. That you will wait till after Earth's harvest. Do not to force him to talk about the last owner, don't insult her, and don't cry when you find out all the emotional and mental violations that happened. Within Earth laws none of those incidents would be proven in a court of law nor are they punishable. In the end when she was losing her mind I was privy to her games as my mother was to the Royal family's intimate secrets.
Until we have someone ready to take their place, we must keep them content because without them it would be anarchy. ReGenX used in every part of our society from everyday tasks to hospitals. Everyone's behavior would have to change and they aren't ready yet.
Don't play games with an eighty eight thousand year old being. Learn how to be more like your mother and father by not showing any emotions in your body. Don't set foot on Jupiter's refinery and hopefully by Earth's harvest time you can help master see that he doesn't need to be there… and don't ask me why."
Kami replied in concern. "Master is unstable and in need of an escape valve. Mini-explosions are needed to prevent a big one. He was threatening to implode a planet with everyone on it. And eww Dr. Freud is a pervert!"
"That's your job to be master's punching bag since you have a high tolerance for pain and are hardly fazed by anything. Your skills will come in handy when master shows his true colors by engaging in our last owner's life and death games. Don't worry, he won't let you die but will take you to the edge."
Hesitant Kami comments, "I'm not as good as I thought. I was afraid of an android lion! How am I supposed to handle worse than that if I can't even practice by going to a slaughter house?"
With a smirk Katrina says, "A warm body is all that is needed and you will do since we have your family and friends as leverage."
Angry she retorts "Then you don't know me that well… I would kill them all myself for the greater good."
"Good! That's exactly what we wanted to hear." Katrina says while giving the necklace back. When putting the Abrasax choker back she says, "Be a good lady-in-waiting by making the way for our queen."
"What? You? Diana?" Kami answers confused and jealous.
Katrina happily replies, "No, we don't have royal genes and the bee workers won't accept us. Technical Support, number two tier is our spot for eternity. We like our job."
Kami laughs internally 'a happy slave is a good slave' and asks Tael 'is that us too?'
Tael replies, 'yes'
"Come on, let's go see your father and have some fun!" Diana says as she twirls Kami to see her old preppy clothes, sometimes it pays to be a hoarder.
…
Standing outside in the parking lot at one of the company's laboratories, Kami is uncertain. Diana eggs her on by saying, "Oh so walking in with permission is no fun… do you want us to sneak in instead?"
"It isn't that… It's that five years ago I said I never wanted to see his pompous sperm donor face again and that he didn't have any right to say what I should and shouldn't do."
"Please, Camilla, you think he won't accept you or hate you for deifying him? He's a worker and you are like me above all of planet Earth except for mom and the regent. The tables have turned and now he has to do what you say. And if it doesn't go well we have the technology to erase his memory until it goes well, so there's nothing to be afraid of." Diana tries to comfort Kami, yet she is smiling and pulling out the white dress she had on last night.
"Why did you bring that?"
"Put it on to remind him of how adorable his daughter looks… it gets my father to be lenient but doesn't work on mom." And brings out the fluffy slip.
"Fine but without the fluff but why didn't you ask me at your house?"
Diana ginning like that striped loony cat, "Mom wouldn't approve but you'll see. If I guess right, it's going to be hilarious! Change in the vehicle there's a reason for it. These workers are wayyy to oversensitive."
Kami felt as though as she was Jupiter under one of Diana's famous schemes. She should have known better as soon as they walked close to the building the guards lowered their heads. Then the receptionists also lowered their heads, and as they walked everyone stopped what they were doing and also lowered their heads. Diana was overjoyed because they usually treated her with contempt.
When they got to Kami's father his two assistants also lowered their heads but Anthony kept working as if nothing had changed in the room. This irritated Diana and Kami didn't care because this is how he always treated her as if she didn't exist.
"Hello father" Kami said seriously.
In monotone "Go away" was the reply.
"Father, I come to say goodbye."
Still like a robot, "After work at five and while you wait think about why you are so selfish putting yourself above others."
Diana can't stand being ignored, "Look up old man. You can't talk to her like that anymore!"
He still ignored them.
"It's ok Diana. We'll wait the twenty minutes outside because the rest of these people here are starting to creep me out its worse than the Manhattan studio."
Outside in the parking lot Diana comments, "Why can't we wait in the lobby and order the little bastards around?"
"You knew that was going to happen! Is it because they can detect his smell? Being chemically controlled isn't right!"
"I'm glad that you are smarter than the average bear and I keep telling you to stop trying to act like their representative. They are happy the way they are! They live to serve."
"My father wasn't changed by it like the others. Do you know why?"
"I'm guessing a malfunction or since he is the head of that department he needs more autonomy than the rest. That's probably what made him break the rules which let to you. Let's wait for him at his house instead of standing around like idiots."
"I rather not because then he'll feel cornered with no safe place to run. Here if he gets upset he can just get away."
"You are way too nice to that sperm donor"
"In reviewing the past, he was there when he was needed so I really don't feel like calling him 'sperm donor' anymore. Now that I know why they acted the way they did, it makes perfect sense. He had the right to be paranoid and afraid for our lives."
"Haha here he comes. Don't turn around and just ignore him like he usually does to you."
In his usual monotone voice "Camilla did you find out that I was right and come to apologize."
Diana spats, "Apologize? Are you mad?"
He still ignores Diana and Kami turns to hug her father. Accepting her and then scrutinizing her, looks at her in horror bowing down and says "Your Majesty"
Kami tries to pull him up, "Father, please don't bow. I'm just like you and everyone else."
Diana is laughing uncontrollably and Kami gives her a dirty look. "Fine" Diana says as she reaches to take the choker off and comments, "This is what's making them treat you with respect. When on a body it produces specific vibrations of love and admiration that only they can hear." And says towards the man bowing "hey, moron don't be a drama queen. You know perfectly well she isn't royal or an echelon."
Anthony, Kami's father gets up and looks at her with a look of utter disgust. "Where did you get it from?!" and she hears him yell for the first time in his life "GIVE IT BACK! NOW!"
Smiling she starts to put it back on her neck when he slaps it off her hands and onto the floor. And Diana intervenes by saying, "Jerk! She didn't borrow it. It was a present!"
Concerned he asks, "Who gave that to you? Who?"
Kami abstractly replies, "One of the top three"
He retorts, "Don't be silly…" and waits for a full answer
"An Abrasax"
Furious, "No child of mine is an imbecile! You should have stayed with Alex, a nice sweet person who would do anything for you and would have made you happy. Why didn't you listen to me? We wanted you to have the life we never could have, one of blissful happiness in ignorance. The Regent doesn't have access to it." Crying and in agony, "He is one of the most depraved beings in the universe who will use you up till you are dead and still defile you body and soul! And I can't believe I'm asking which of the two boys!"
Diana understands the questions and shakes her head not to dare answer it. Tael says in Kami's mind to say Lord Titus. But Kami can't lie to her parents. She can lie to herself but not to them.
"His Majesty Lord Balem"
He wasn't her father anymore but a demon, "you are unworthy, you are no queen..." then the realization dawned on him as he cried in pain saying "all is lost" he pulled the trigger of a stealth weapon but Neith and Sothis where much quicker than him so it blasted into the sky as Tael pushed both Diana and Kami out of the way.
"Father" Kami cries out to him but he is out. Neith explains that he will be out for a few hours , the company will wipe his memory and return him home.
An annoyed Diana stated, "He tried to kill you! Oh well at least we don't have to test the others. If one of the top ones goes nuts at the implication that the last owner is no more, I really don't want to be here when they all find out."
"Don't play coy with me Diana… your mother knew it and she still let me come with this choker on"
"Well, get used to being used. It isn't personal; it's just practice and don't you want to help the greater good. Also, with the team he" laughing "our master assigned to you, we can play this game all day long. Do you want to go see your mom now?" Diana laughing some more.
"That was mean! You could have warned me?"
"Naw, I wanted to see your reaction. You really need to work on controlling you feelings. Making a big stint isn't going to earn you any points."
"Now that I know, let's go see my mom, my megaboss." Kami laughed as she got into the vehicle.
They both sat in silence till Diana commented, "We could clear all their memories as if you never existed."
"NO! I love my family no matter how messed up they seem to be. They could have aborted me yet knowing that it was their lives versus mine they still kept me. Other than playing outside and being with other kids, I got everything that I ever could want. She had plants all over the houses I lived. And after we met you, she let me go to public school. Thank you."
"Yep! You OWE me big time." And laughing sarcastically, "So if you ever become queen of the universe remember the little people on Earth and Kepler"
"I will" then Kami stuck her tongue out. Sigh. "I wish Planet Jupiter could be here. She's been missing mom ever since mom stopped talking to me till I got married." More sighing, "Her silly fairy tale wedding isn't going to happen and she isn't going to be happy when she finds out."
"Are you sure she prefer you being a bride and dead at eighty something than living over a thousand years? And traveling all over the universe?"
"Well, thank you for the vote of confidence that I will last that long! And yes, that's what they both wanted. Didn't you hear my father? They wanted me to be blissfully ignorant yet extremely intelligent."
"We could have a pretend wedding and then wipe the guests. And since they aren't allowed to have any social connections outside the company how will they found out the wedding was a fake?"
"And that's why you are the goddess of the hunt! But I don't think fancy pants will think it was funny. He got mad at me when I said I had two previous partners."
"You said what?! Are you insane? And I thought you could make anyone think they were the only person in the universe."
"Fancy Pants… We really need to stop joking or I'm going to one day call him fancy pants or superboss and it won't be hilarious. Lord Balem asked me directly, I tried to avoid it but he asked me directly again. And I told him it didn't matter. Yet he insisted that it did and how many. Why do males care so much about such things? I would think they would want someone with more experience?"
"Really, I also thought you had a black belt in sex or at least in book knowledge of sex? Would you like me to explain it?"
"If it's the silly religious chewed gum bs that poor Elizabeth Smart thought she was unworthy of rescuing? Then I don't want to hear it." Kami asked as she changed back to Diana's preppy clothes.
"When you've only been intimate with one person then there's no one else to compare them to or say so and so where better at this."
"I'm so guilty but it isn't fair he's eighty eight thousand who has probably had as many partners as his age and I'll be compared to thousands."
"Being your best-est friend ever and as nosy as I am, I haggled mom for information. Guess a lower, much much lower number."
"a hundred?"
"Lower"
"ok, now that's just very wrong unless he had wives… I don't want to guess just tell me!"
"It's funny: officially 1, the Kepler's know it's really 2, and everyone thinks it's 4."
"I don't believe you; that's too low of a number."
"Ask mom, she'll tell you. And if you're brave later on ask him, since you want to play the equal game. The same way he shouldn't believe you either. As if there really is twenty six year old human virgin in this century that isn't in a cult or a prisoner?"
"I'm not a virgin"
"You are by my definition and by the mainstream cult definition. And now I bet you wish you were never touched in that way by another being?"
"Nope, because if I would have been one, I never would have had the courage to look him in the eye, follow his commands, or match his movements. I'm glad for Alex and Ethan who had patience with me."
The vehicle stops in front of those houses that look like a detached townhouse cottage. They knock on the door. Hava, Kami's mom answers the door through the screen asking in monotone, "Are you married?"
Diana lies, "Yes, to Bryan who owns lots of stocks and likes to farm. He's the best of both worlds, the physical and intellectual." While Kami pokes her to stop lying, Diana adds, "and she LOVES HIM so much she will sell us out." That earned her a nasty look but earned them entrance.
"My daughter!" Hava almost squeals hugging Kami. And Kami doesn't have the courage to tell her it isn't true. They get ushered to a quaint living room that looks like an Ethan Allen catalogue. Kami still keeps giving Diana the spiteful look as Hava goes to put the water on for tea.
"So tell me all about him and show me photos!" Kami's mom states almost happily.
Diana jumps in, "He's really really wealthy more than any of us can imagine, yet he likes to get down in the dirt to do real work. A true workaholic, He's off to corporate meetings and is trying to clear sometime in his schedule to come and meet YOU. And then for the families to get together to plan the public wedding."
"Of course, we knew she was going to pick someone like us! What a thoughtful and wonderful person. How long have you been married and when are you going to give me grandchildren?"
"A month and two days" Diana keeps talking while Kami blushes at all her lies. "Lots, he wants to make sure all the company profits stay within the family. One day Camilla can show you the protocols in place to make sure no one else can take the company away from the family."
"How old is he?" and they got saved by the tea kettle "And young lady you're going to show me photos when I come back" she yells as she goes into the kitchen.
"Why?! Why did you have to lie?" Kami begs
"She wasn't going to let us through the door and I haven't lied that much. Awe come on just put the choker on to determine what level of brainwashing she has. She seems much more normal than your father."
Kami obliges and asks for one of the bodyguards to catch the china tray. "This is mean" she cries to Diana.
As soon as she enters the room, Hava hears it and looks for the source and lets go of the tray as soon as she sees it. So enthralled by the sound that she doesn't notice the tray being placed on the coffee table, She doesn't care that Kami is crying and goes to touch the choker. Kami takes it off and waits for a reaction.
Hava looks at her confused as she bows down with head down and says, "You are not our mother?" Everyone waits in silence. Hava looks up into Kami's eyes and says, "Camilla, my daughter… my daughter" smiles and hugs her. "I wasn't supposed to have you, yet your left over fetal DNA probably has saved me from my pituitary gland programming."
Diana happily states, "That's a good theory; let's go test all the other law breaking workers"
Hava asks, "There are more?"
"Yes, twenty two including Camilla."
"Do you know how it happened?"
"No. but I'm guessing quantum biology."
Kami, "Since I'm just as equal as you" and gives the last line as a command "I'm staying with mom for now"
Diana angrily replies,"I'm higher since I'm a true heir and a citizen of Orous!"
"No you aren't yet, since outside Earth information is blocked"
"Don't assume things Kami. Orous and others communications aren't blocked. Only the main planetary A.I. system information from our planets is blocked." Sticks out her tongue at Kami and states "proprietary information from a planet is always blocked and under high security that only the owners have access to it."
Hava changing the subject, "so this Bryan isn't real? Then, my daughter, why where you blushing?"
Diana as usually cutting in and smirking, "Oh he is real. Our master's name is Balem Abrasax and she currently belongs to him."
"What does our mother think of this? She's going to kill you when she finds out!"
"oh she's currently occupied with other planets; Da'at has been a real pain recently and still hasn't yielded" Diana states as if it was nothing.
Wailing on the floor, Hava acts weird trying to get something that isn't there. "NO, you LIE! Our mother wouldn't let her GOD SON be with a mere mortal!"
Tael in her Jaguar splice form appears holding Hava's weapon, "looking for this?"
Hava states in horror. "Get away abomination!"
Kami "Tael is My Guard and Chief Medical Officer and not an abomination."
Tael "Thank you my lady Abrasax."
Hava looks from Tael and to Kami suspiciously. Sothis appears in her Canine Splice form to bow and so does Neith in saragon form.
Kami has a huge smile, "Wow a DRAGON!" and runs to Neith who states, "My lady Abrasax, I am at your service"
In her mind Kami "awe, thank you ladies but you don't have to lie for me"
Diana seething also bows and states, "OfAbrasax can also count on me" and then shrugs it off "since we are besties right?"
"Of course Lady Kepler and stop with the silly bowing thing" Kami running over to stand Diana up and give her a hug.
"See everything is fine Ms. LaClear. Camilla is a great asset to the company. She'll make all of us on Earth proud. And so are the other twenty one anomalies who are being integrated into the system."
"They weren't killed nor the parents?"
Diana proudly states, "We pride ourselves in being a zero waste facility" as the team disappears.
Mother says to daughter, "I'm sorry Camilla. we may go a little crazy if we think our supply of ReGenX is going to be cut off. You will soon understand our yearning next time you miss a dose. I'm so selfish. You know I have always been selfish. But I should have at least complemented on you being ten years younger. I was jealous that's why I didn't mention it. Will you forgive me my daughter?"
"Yes. Yet I didn't want to be like this, it was an overdose, I had six in a row and then a machine that pulsed. They underestimated my absorbency rate."
Smiling Hava puts the tea cups on the table and picks up the tray with the teapot stating, "I'm going to go warm the water again for tea and when I get back, you my daughter and not Diana will tell me all about Bryan." She goes back to the kitchen.
"Did you wipe her memory?"
"No, she's lying to herself because she can't handle the truth. Now practice your lying skills"
Hava comes back with warm water and pours the tea into the infuser. Looks at Kami for her answers…
"He's much older than me yet he can outlast any young'un including me at anything"
Have keeps staring at Kami
"Don't freak out ok? 40"
"Fine, as long as I get to have grandchildren. His last name…"
"Cadabra with a C not a K. He gets really annoyed if you spell it with a K"
Diana adds, "His company helped in the Cadabra computer algebra system."
"Great! I can ask him about multi-term symmetries, fermions and anti-commuting variables!"
"Oh Aunt Hava you can ask me about tensors, fermions, Feirz transformations, and anything you want" Diana enthusiastically states "I love math the language of the universe!"
Kami excuses herself to the bathroom and her mother suggests using her old one upstairs. Everything that is hers is still the same way she left it.
"Taking one for the greater good… Your acting skills are superb Ms. C!"
"I wasn't acting number 7!"
"Oh please you know the truth better than I did. Don't worry Ms. C, she's probably going to live longer than any of us unless she gets into a cat fight with the other one but she hasn't been one for violence. She will probably try to reason with her. I wish to be alive long enough to see that fight. Of all the days to trespass?"
Kami asks, "What fight?"
"The one where you sell out"
"I know the correct order the Greater Good, Earth, and then me. It seems to me that you need to look in the mirror before pointing fingers."
Diana ignoring Kami talks to Hava, "Mother wants to have a heart-to-heart. We must update the agreement terms and deliverables."
Annoyed Hava says, "Unlike Anthony, I'm off the clock. Leave a voice mail, email or send me a memo."
Diana shots back a how-dare-you look
Hava smirks in disdain, "MY daughter and I would like some privacy" and turns to Kami smiling, "how about a sleepover for old time sake?"
Diana "no" Kami "yes" answer in unison
Have ignoring Diana, "I'll take you home in the afternoon"
Diana looks at Kami and wants to say let's go and then remembers she has a copy of the necklace. Connects to Kami's and says "LETS GO NOW! Did you forget how overbearing, crazy control freak your mother can be?"
Kami to Diana, "I didn't forget, but I miss her and I'm practically living at your house now."
"She wants to use you for who knows what? Your mother and my mother are cunning snakes that try to act like doves. Yes, it seems like I'm insulting my mother but it is the truth!"
"Maybe she'll tell me how they met and why she kept me? And there so many other things I want to ask her. When will I get another chance? It's so rare for her to be happy… and I know you have my back more than she ever will but please Diana let me have this chance?"
"Oh you will remember this for the rest of your life and the next"
"Of course you'll choose your mom over me."
"No, I wouldn't but I wasn't talking about me."
Diana somberly states, "Call us when you get tired of lalaland" Then as she leaves, she turns to Hava, "Remember our agreement"
"I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive / I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise / to Fly to fly. / Me against enemies, me against friends / somehow they both seem to become one / a sea full of sharks and they all smell blood / get ready for it, I came to win" Fly by Rihanna & Nicki Minaj
