Meanwhile,Stor, Golan and Fallom moved into Gendibals workroom.
to look like long and thin corridor. It consists of big flowerpots with different
kinds of flowers. Stor most like flower from Callisto. Clay was magnetic and
flower floated over it. Whole stem and leaves were white, created by tiny
flower. Room seemed to be curtly furnished, just necessary minimum of
technics. There sounded a waterfall behind Stors chair, with delicious aroma
of forests torrent. Bottom of the small water hole was transparent, so man
could see small fishes, which were talking with voices of young people.
Stor entered first and turned off talking of fishes. He raised light and turned on
imitation of forest. Just worktable was seen. There was mirrored picture of
Hari Seldon on the desk, as he sit in armchair, without a hat, just like in time
deposit.
Fallom went second. At entrance, she began to recite:
Now it's time
To lost the mind
So fly forward
like a bird
"Awkwardness!" Trevize though. But before he could say anything, he got
mental slap.
"Poetry is raising of man's spirit ," he heard Gendibals notion. Trevize entered
inside, too. He looked bored around a forest. Nothing engaged him He
searched a chair, which was floating antigravitic. Once he sat, he got yen for
jurito. It was an usual energy drink for men with slightly alkoholic effect. When
drinking by a woman, it has had more alkoholic effect rather than energetic.
Golan smacked. He didn't see anything else, but waterfall.
Stor sat at the top of the table, there was Fallom on the right side, Golan on
the left side. There was a crate with R. Daneel on the panel, still closed.
"Welcome in my workroom, " začal Stor began officially. He pushed a button
and plates with dessert appeared. It was a coloured vapour closed in
transparent container like in three dimensional FarStar. At contact, this elastic
shell reminded gelatine of sharp fruit taste with alkoholic aroma. It helped to
pacify Golan, not to long for jurito. Fallome drank whole vapour immediately.
Then she tried to eat FarStar. There was no spoon, so she hesitated. But she
saw Stor that he caught FarStar with both hands, she caught it with hands,
too. She was surprised, that gelatin changed into hot vapour in touch with
saliva. She wondered more, when she realized, her hands were clean and dry.
Everything happened in absolute silence, because everyone took care not to
disturb everyone else. It just clicked, when plates were hid. Some big capsule
appeared, which everyone ate. Cover disappeared and they tasted swallow of
strange liquid, which ended their drought in no time.
"Our friends from Mycogen and their kindness are one of few, which survived
Great Sack. But you didn't travel for delicacy. Fallom, let say us something
about yourself and why you called us all here.."
"My person isn't important.I'm from Solária. When I was fourteen, crew of
spaceship FarStar with Golan Trevize as a head moved me to the Moon,
circular of the Earth, motherplanet of manship. I have lived there for thirtyfour
years with R. Daneel. R. Daneel educated me. He taught me to communicate
mentally and to manipulate with various devicest. During his existence, I was
connected externally to Gaia. From Moon he created memory bank, where he
stored all of his memories. I can read them," Fallom said all mechanically.
Man could hear her Solarian accent. She tilted a little toward Stor, with which
she made eye contact. Golan didn't care about that at all and played with his
fingers.
Stor waited patiently on Falloms continuing.
"Uncle, please, say Golan, not to sexual harass. He always imagine me, as he
kiss me. It's disturbing. I would like to say you both Daneels heritage," Fallom
pleased Stor shyly. She said it mentally, because she was to shy to say it loud.
"Golan, Fallom is an innocent girl, leave her alone," Stor warned Trevize
mentally. "let's listen to Daneels heritage."
Fallom changed place and touch her palm on right place. Room darkened.
There appeared hologram on Stors what they saw, was huge mass
of people.
Daneel has just got out. People step by step faded away. Somewhere far away
Daneel spotted a man, who was making way through people to him Daneel
waited patiently. Ever more he saw, who is it . Known man pretended
seriously. As man closed, people disappeared, and there were only Daneel and
a man.
"Elijah!"
"Daneel!"
"I am glad to see you, my friend!"
"So do I. I have come to ask you, how you did care about manship. I've
heard, you added fourth law to three ones. Zeroth law is supposedly superior
to other ones. Should you say it to me, please?" Elijah said everything with
stone face..
" A robot may not
harm humanity, or,
by inaction, allow
humanity to come
to harm."
"Does it means that robot may injure human being if it conflicts with this
zeroth law?"
"yes."
"Who made God from you? Do you still exist?" Elijah raised voice slightly.
Daneel watched quietly. In mind, he went through all of interviews with Elijah
or Giskard. Logically, he reviewed all of substantiations, step by step. He
looked for mistakes.
"Are you quiet?" Elijah asked him reserved. " Perhaps, you want to refer my
words about tapestry. Or words about how is important whole piece of
humanity instead of individual. Don't you?"
Elijah was quiet for some minutes. Daneel listened motionlessly.
"You didn't understand them at all. It is the same thing as you can't
understand behavior of a manNepochopil si ich. Human being isn't about
mathematics so you can make tight definitions. Do you know what is moving
power of human being? Free will. Alfa and omega of his behavior. This is it,
what makes human being human one. That's difference between human being
and robot. Without free will is nobody human. He or she is just a doll. As same
as you did from humanity."
Daneel opened mouth but Elijah hushed him by moving hand. Then Elijah
continued.
"You had made good thing, that you created empire. But many situations you
solved as a supreme ruler. Do you remember robot wars? How did you forced
robot to agree with zeroth law?"
"isn't humanity important more then individual?"
"there were many false wars in name of goodness of humanity. This way
dictators hid their valency ambitions. You alone during your existence saw
fatal tumor of power. You wished yourself to have power and to manipulate
with people and robots. With your superiority you played role of space
policeman to be a ruler. As in case of Gaia or psychohistory. And to conquer
absolute finish, you staged theatrical farce near Gaia. You are ordinary mass-
killer, who murdered or let murder for twenty thousand years. "
Daneel knelt quietly. He extended both arms toward Elijah. He wanted to say
something, but just opened mouth.
"Now I answer your question. People are egoistic. Until everybody understand,
that more important is goodness of whole piece, then the change of humanity
comes. Until that happens, only goverments and regimes will only change.
While human being isn't changed, the history will repeat. We, humans, are
different ones. Some edify, some won't understand before death. It's deal of
community, how satisfy needs of individual. Ideal situation is, when demands
of community are as same as demands of individual.."
At this moment Daneel understood, where he was mistaken. Daneel realised,
he triffled away twenty thousand years. Elijah surprised him as usually when
they solved any hard case.
"Elijah! Elijah ! I am sorry, I failed." Daneel shouted last time. He collapsed and
moved no more.
"What was that?" Trevize was heard the first. He was shocked. Always he
thought, how he was dexterous one. In this moment he observed, his dexterity
was misused.
"Fallom will explain it us, won't you?" Stor adressed Fallom. He suspected,
what she would want to say, but he knew, that Golan wouldn't listen.
"During years of steadily decision making, what is right or not, his conscience
was created. Because first assignment to care about humanity came from
Elijah Baley, so this judgement before death got form in presence of Elijah
Baley."
"Who is Elijah Baley?" Golan sounded. This name was known, but he couldn't
remember, where he heard this name.
"Elijah Baley is Daneels first friend. They investigated together three murders.
Elijah affected him most in question of saving humanity," Fallom said and
continued with story about death of Elijah Baley.
"This explains everything, " Stor talked. At long last he found last pebble from
Seldons plan. So he could agreed Golan, to collect everyone to Trantor - Bliss,
mayor of Terminus, First speaker and first meeting of both Foundations could
begin. He enjoyed.
Meanwhile Daneel should be researched and Fallom would help him to unfold
Daneels memories. Until then he call meeting of speakers to inform them.
Suri informed him about Bessijs agreement to be ambassador and so he had
to arrange a training. It was high time. Great unification should take long
time. He didn't worry. He knew he would've continuator in case of his death.
They chatted a while. He pleased Golan for a help with transport. He hesitated
first, but Fallom wanted to travel with him, when she heard about Bliss.
"Golan, one more thing. Bessij will stay with us. She agreed. Her motherplanet
will add soon to confederation of Second Foundation. What you did on
Jile..." Stor said but was interrupted.
" We brought there freedom and democracy, " Trevize enounced.
"Only tyranny and despotisms. You named it spectacularly as a democracy.
You aren't the first, but I hope, one of the lasts. There was no ideal situation on
Jile, but you misused it to gain power."
Stor raised one eyebrow. Golan realised, Stor was true. He wanted to insure
himself. So he decided to help to conquer Jile. His intuition said him, that
weapons from Foundation could win without any loss. And so happened. He
had enough of dangerous, spaceflights or diplomacy. In this moment he was
degraded to spacetaxi. But he didn't knew what should happen next. He
couldn't return to Terminus. Terminus became well guarded planet. Especially
after big boom of antigravitic ships, disturbances began to enlarge. And Golan
was not only outlaw, but also on blacklist of rebels. On other side, he didn't
know what would happen if he returned to Jile. Certainly, there was prepared
takeover of regime, so he would be first on Jilian blacklist. But what to do
next? Perhaps he should help to unify both Foundations and then would look
for small planet, where he would be until his death in arms of a woman.
Trevize commanded Hupo to prepare PopRad. It wasn't about supplies, but
also about cabins for so different guests.