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Title:the Diary of Mary Plodzt.
Author:Rodlox.
Dedication:Many thanks to all my supporters and inspirations in this...but most of all, to my favorite beta-readers Fanwoman, Purpleyin, and Fififolle.
Author's notes:I always doubted that Jordan would be the only leader of 4400s, the only one able to rally 4400s together, to bring them into communities (ecumenica). Meet Mary Plodzt, another 4400 who managed the same trick.
Summary:The diary of Mary Plodzt after she is returned to the world...
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21st September 2004:
They have released us from quarantine.
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25th September 2004:
Men and women were taken. Men and women were returned. Not enough to be sustainable. Too many to be an accident. God does nothing by accident. If only men were returnees, or only women were returnees, then we might think we were meant to spread our genes into the broader population. But we are not simply all men or all women, instead we are 2,200 men and 2,200 women. Timing, I suspect, will be the key -- when and how to do
To do what? I am certain He has a reason. There is nothing done that does not have a reason, even if we cannot yet understand it. He has given us minds so that we might understand His works, and better know Him. Therefore there is a way for us to come to know what His plan is in regards to we 4400s. We have simply to labor towards that understanding.
Why are we here? What are we here? I learned in quarantine that there is no religion which enjoys numerical superiority as we returnees are counted -- every faith has the same number of practitioners who were taken and returned. Only the agnostics are in a minority amongst us. Nothing which He does is by accident. Much which He does can be understood by those who learn from all that which He does.
He knows His reasons. To guess feels base, wrong. If the answer can be learned, it should be. I aim to find out.
What is my role in all of this? I was selected for a reason. All things occur for a reason. I was made a returnee. I am not a refugee, not a businessman, not a doctor not artisan. I have no trade by which I can draw a profit. I confess that I have only dabbled in professions, taking naught but the first few steps of many careers. Is this why I was selected? Chosen because I am educated to no aim? I know this and that, but am nowhere near a degree or an equivlancy.
I am no Moses to lead us into a new land, a new society, a new beginning. I am no Jacob, to bring forth a nation from my loins. I am Mary Plodzt, a shephard because others rely upon me. One day, perhaps He will show me who He means to lead His modern people. In the meanwhile, our community, our ecumenica will hold together. I should not fear an end to anything, but I cannot help but worry that a collapse of our ecumenica will be the end of all of we 4400s.
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9th March 2005:
There will come hard times for us all, and there will come moments when we are truly tested. None of us shall pass through this life untouched, just as not one of us should hope to be untouched and uninfluenced by their life and the lives around them. Each one of we 4400 can expect to face difficulty and hard decisions.
Some of us are soldiers, some are leaders and teachers, some are herbalists. At any point in time, any of us may change from one profession to another, as best our natures allow us to change. But we shall all indeed change, at least once.
And we must be prepared to dedicate ourselves. As individuals, we have dedicated ourselves to our friends, to the ecumenicas that we have formed. Both individually and collectively, we must prepare to dedicate ourselves to our collective safety and collective security, we must be willing to serve as the guards of our people. For if danger passes us, we are doomed.
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30th April 2005:
Our ecumenica continues to grow apace, growing from the handful of released returnees who came out of quarantine together. Nowhere near the 4,400 which is our total number, our ecumenica has grown beyond the eight who, lost and seeking, began to keep the company of one another. And our numbers shall surely continue to grow, until our ecumenica includes as members all of we returnees.
Jordan Collier will be a problem. He has refused to join our ecumenica and is building an ecumenica of his own. They are our own kind, fellow returnees. They are misguided, and should be allowed to join us in their own time. Tempted as we may be, we should not raise our arms against other ecumenicas. Not even raise our voice against them. Thus we must trust that Collier will overcome his pride and will join our ecumenica with those who follow him. Collier is as I am -- a returnee, nothing more. We have every right to be shepards, none to be leaders. Returnees are a community; not a cult. We are an ecumenica yearning to reunify.
But he has delivered a severe blow to our collective identity nonetheless. However much I would like to ignore the message he has revealed, I have come to know him well enough to know that he would gain nothing from lying, not on this point certainly. The future is the hand behind the abduction and return of every one of we 4400. Humans in a distant time.
And so it is that the answer has come: as I held my hand motionless as I thought, my pen dripped thrice, a little inkblot forming in the shadow of my hand. Surely...yes, surely mankind even in the future is only the hand of God. Those people may have thought they were doing it of their own recognizance, perhaps even believed it fervently, but were truly the instruments of Divine Will. Nothing shall interfere with His plan for mankind, even if He choses to use other times as pawns toward His greater Intent.
Yes.
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AUGUST SECOND
MARY PLODZT, ENEMY OF JORDAN
COLLIER, IS NOW DEAD
BY MY HAND.
TRULY,
T.J.Kim
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