the beginning of Chapter 28, The Happening:
1. Daniel
felt a dry, desolate breeze blow sand through his fingers.
He was atop the highest mountain peak in the Sinai
peninsula. The altitude mixed swells of cooler
breezes into the dry heat, but the sand was inescapable. The sand
could be carried for miles in sand clouds, and this peak was in the
way.
2. From
his vantage point, he could see the Red Sea to the south and knew that
the Mediterranean was over the horizon to the north.
3. This
had been the point of his original extraction and the last
panorama that he saw before fading into a new existence on the
simulator floor at Corlos. B'jhon was the only other operative
who knew Daniel's story. "The Enochian key is coded to Human
DNA," Daniel told B'jhon privately, "that's why it only works when I'm
around." "And Dayton?" B'jhon inferred. There had never
been a need for a photonic translator, so to everyone else, the key was
simply another Light Race novelty. "Maybe that's why your the
Director?," B'jhon shrugged, subtextually suggesting that 'The One
moves in mysterious ways.'
4. There
was something different about this particular visit.
The setting was exactly as he remembered, but there
was a new quality that he had never felt before.
5. This
dream did not have the surreal feel of other dreams.
It felt like this particular dream was being managed
by forces outside his synaptic control. One alarm
led to the next:
6. The
area was naturally desolate, but the exponential desolation made him
apprehensive. He couldn't ‘wake
up...’ "Now I know
something's up," he said.
7. "Time
itself, is wrong," he observed. He was
standing on the Earth prior to the advent of Human proliferation, as the only photonically infused biological. That
fact would insulate him from any psychotropic manipulation.
8. He
reached out psionically and confirmed that he was alone.
9. There
were no weeds growing in the cracks, no dried grass – there was no
biology on Earth at all: Not even algae in the ocean.
10. This
was the world before the dawn of life; the setting before the action
began.
11. Not
far from his vantage point, a whirlwind stirred, and within the wind
appeared an angelic being. This angel was
not like the one who met him near God's throne. This
angel was saturated with pretentiousness and deceit, hiding its anger
behind a
seductive exterior.
12. The
whirlwind dissipated into the natural breeze. The anti-being
stood fast and observed Daniel with curious apathy, sucking ambient
light into the black hole of its facade.
13. “The
Evil One,” Daniel quietly vocalized without giving it much
thought. Anti-beings are not psionic, and Daniel knew
that: They can't be -- they're everything that God
isn't.
14. “Isn't
evil a point of view?” the entity queried?
15. “And
you are?...” Daniel coddled. The being gestured toward itself,
then spread its arms in mockery.
16. “Why,
the Son of the Morning,” it answered disingenuously, “Lucifer and
Light… and coming soon: Satan!” The
creature spoke perfect Enochian.
17. Daniel
seized the opportunity to scold the entity in the most childishly
mocking voice he could imitate, “I can do no wrong because I don't know
what it is.” Then he added much more contemptuously, "You
unembodied spiritual feces."
18. The
creature flew into a rage, becoming a silhouette of dark matter that
sucked up even more light than before. It was angry and
unnhibited. Indeed, somewhat of a showman for being so
spoiled.
19. “It's
not hard to understand why you didn't … ‘fit in’ up there,” Daniel
scorned it. The tirade worsened but Daniel remained unmoved and
completely unaffected.
20. There
was thunder and lightning and gale force
winds -- the whole show: "You made your bed..." Daniel said,
smirking at the spectacular special effects.
21. "There is only one absolute in the Universe," Daniel said
definitively, "An Eternal God can not force His creatures to love Him,
any
more than evil can commit a genuine act of sacrifice." So Mote It
Be. And that, evidently, is where this creature messed up.
It emulated intellect, but lacked intelligence. It watched eons
come and go -- and learned nothing. It was a coward. All
show.
22. "The Bane of God is Stupidity," Daniel provoked; a truth that
cut like a knife. "There's just NO talking to you!" the creature
huffed. Anti-beings cannot read
minds, but they can read trends: A mortal who caves into
weakness, cowardice and fear provides a map for evil to fully exploit.
23. Everything
became eerily quiet, as it was before the creature appeared; just a
gentle breeze blowing more sand through Daniel's fingers as if nothing
had happened. The cooler swells made an interesting hot-cold
sensation.
24. Daniel
peered intently into the proverbial ‘dawn of time’ as the sun set into
twilight. The sweeping colors were a striking contrast to the
tirade he had just seen.
25. “Interesting,”
he whispered while looking up into the Heavens, "The Lord Our God," he
remembered from his old life, and held up a single finger, "The One."
I-20's
ENTOURAGE ABOVE EARTH
26. "This is supposed to be absolutely void of biology," #9
exclaimed. He shook the holographic scanner. Traces of
sub-photonic residue on a mountain peak disappeared; traces of
consciousness.
27. "I don't see anything," #8 said. The others looked at
#9 like he wasn't wrapped very tight. "Must have been a ghost in
the biological," he sighed. "It was nothing," I-20 assured
everyone, "We can proceed as planned." They were about to start
Section 1 at this location as directed by
Conscious.
BACK
ABOARD THE ELITE DESTROYER
28. The disrupter beams fanned out too wide to be
effective across 80,000 miles of unobstructed space. The beams
had
been calibrated for striking points at 919's teutonic vulnerabilities;
to cascade into an anti-matter vacuum. The
firing sequence would have worked and taken the moon too.
29. "Terminate the sequence," Kor commanded.
He was annoyed that some of the auto firing was still in
progress. Those
sequences halted. 919's moon drifted away from the sun and out of
sight -- the injured moon was definitely not a concern right now.
30. In less than one second, two objects disappeared. "I
wanted to keep her," Kor told himself. 42. Mother had planted invisible harmonic
amplifiers to assist her journey to 1985, then reinforced the amplifier
net by sprinkling more amplifiers inbetween real time and 1985.
It was the only way she could safely recoil to real-time. When
Kor's armada arrived, Mother used the amplifiers to push Earth's
harmonic out of phase.
43. Acceleration did not require tremendous
amounts of energy, it only required repolarizing a target to a
neighboring harmonic; another realm of cosmic consciousness with a
different perspective. Only Mother and Azoth knows exactly
where. 
