Emergence 3.0
A Novel – One Page Per Day
Day 031, Wednesday
January 31st, 2018
Chapter
Three: Nativity
Jim was not his name; it was merely the most recent name he had adopted
as Earth’s Observer. Jim was one name among thousands that he had used over the
course of as many lifetimes.
His real name, the name of his birth, that name was lost deep within the
Continuum, as all names belonging to members of the Collective were.
He had no memory of what his mother called him, what her aspirations
were for him when he was named.
The Continuum referred to him with the designation: Observer-92835670100561474.
The names he bore from one lifetime to the next, they were only known as part
of the narrative report his mission required him to deliver to the Collective.
It was Jim who came to consciousness in the magnetic field.
He was James.
A name he had adopted from a series of fiction, a Captain of a starship,
in a popular piece of sci-fi.
He arrived on the Central Planet, the Home World, for what he was sure
would be the last time.
If he survived what he was about to do, what he had been planning for
eons, he would never return to the Observer Corps, and when he returned to a
body of flesh, he would be going there to die.
If his plan failed, which he believed was more than likely, he knew that
there was no chance that he would be given a reprieve. The Continuum had sought
his termination many times, only for him to be spared by the Collective. But
the destruction that he was about to wreck on that body would be so great that
if it failed to bring about the end he sought. Then he would be doomed.
So much depended on his timing, and the many layers of plans that he had
set in place throughout the Empire.
Jim had to concentrate.
He was already under incredible scrutiny from the Continuum. He had to
mask his intentions, with the techniques that he alone had mastered among every
member of the Collective.
His entire consciousness would be exposed, it was considered to be impossible
for anyone to keep secrets under the examination he was about to endure, but Jim
had kept many secrets, he knew he could do it, but he also knew that the level
of anticipation, and anxiety he was currently feeling was something unique to
this situation.
He had never tried to keep a secret like this.
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