When Zousan gained his own multiverse, it came with a great deal of
bureaucratic rules created by his horrible father, Cronus.
Within the byzantine rules, that only Marybell, the sentient computer,
can follow, there are a vast deal of limitations on the number of interventions
Zousan and his staff can perform.
In fact, there are over 3 trillion rules on what he cannot do and only
one permitted life-save per critical persons during each hundred years. Given
the short lifespan of the species involved, this equates to one save per
person.
Rescuing the Oceanics (in book 1) consumed a huge portion of their
authorized saves. Realizing how few actions they had left to use, Zousan’s best
shepherd, Pane, began pre-planning what exactly they would need the critical
persons to do in future years and assist them in their sleep dreams to resolve
future problems without Godly intervention.
For example to get the not yet existing Soul-bond of Three, all Pane had
to do was to have Dmitri share his worries with his spirit wife Tamara that the
Shaman gates would not stand much longer.
The reason Pane had to go through Dmitri, rather than simply telling
Tamara to retrieve her sister and the bull is simple. Tamara is a spirit, and
no longer sleeps, but Pane can only communicate with sentients during their
sleep. He just worked around the problem. When Dmitri mentions his concern
about the walls falling, Tamara disappears for two weeks, then returns with her
soul-bond Saran and the largest blue bull he’s ever seen. With no prompting
from Pane, she coaxes Dmitri to fall in love with Saran (not a hard task given
Saran is very easy to love.)
Next Pane needs Dmitri to call Shaman Troy and ask to be married on the
second day he knows Saran. The first night at the cabin, when Dmitri falls asleep
watching over Saran, Pane sends him a nightmare. This naturally wakes Saran and
she goes to his aid. Sensing Tamara’s soul (remember: they share a very large
soul between them) he pulls Saran into his arms and kisses her. Problem solved.
Shaman Troy is surprised when Dmitri calls the next day, requesting to be
married. The shaman knows Tamara didn’t properly die, but hangs on as a spirit.
However, when Dmitri asks if he can bring a blue bull, Shaman Troy assures him
he can and returns to his stone tablets.
For years Shaman Troy has been searching for The Soul Bond of Three with
no success. Twenty years ago as a boy of twelve, he’d dreamed of finding a cave
with stone tablets hidden inside. (Dream brought to Troy by Pane). Then the
young Troy went searching for the cave and found it and the ‘ancient’ tablets
within. And while it took many years and a little more dream help from Pane to
translate the tablets, he learns to read the lost language and translates the
ancient text. One of the tablets mentions the blue bull would travel with the
Soul Bond of Three.
Upon realizing Tamara and Saran were soul-bonds, Troy marries Dmitri to
them, believing that was all they require to fulfill the prophecy of the
Soul-bond of Three. However, when the three join physically, their souls bond
into one, making them a true Soul-bond of Three. In fact, they are the only Soul-bond of three in all of the many
universes. Soon they will head outbound to a new planet where they will
thrive….if they don’t die. If the latter happens, we are all doomed, so let’s
all focus on the positive possibility. (Being positive is very important in
Quantum.)
Zousan marvels at how well Pane shepherds his people without any direct
intervention. Just a few helpful dream nudges from Pane and they handle matters
on their own.
Pane is an amazing Shepherd. The best
Zousan has ever seen. It’s a shame, he’s so hideous looking.
Surviving Outbound
By
Liza O’Connor
Blurb
Saran
along with her ‘not dead, just no longer human’ soul-bond—Tamara, and their giant
blue bull leave in search of a handler so Blue can escape Earth and travel
outbound. The man Saran meets and falls in love with turns out to be Tamara’s
husband. Their spiritual joining of three sets into play a prophecy written long
ago. Together, they become Tamsarandem, the most powerful soul-bond in all the
multiverses.
The
shamans pay for their voyage to Terranue, an unknown planet, never before
colonized by humans. In return, Tamsarandem must look after the other colonists
and help them to prosper and find their Paths of Light. They will need to do
this mostly on their own, for the
Gods are running out of authorized interventions. However, the God Pane, with
the help of the sentient ship-computer, Marybell, constantly search for clever
workarounds to ensure The Path of Light will reign supreme upon the final
collapse. But there is only so much they can do within their bureaucratic
rules.
Having
failed to stop Tamsarandem from leaving Earth, those who walk the Path of
Darkness embed their own people, including their darkest lord, on the ship to
ensure it will never arrive at Terranue.
Excerpt
The God Pane woke to alarms. He
rushed to his computer panel and spoke to his girlfriend, the sentient computer
who ran the ship. “Marybell, can you tell me what’s happened?”
She paused before replying. “A high
percentage of our soul-bonds travel to the ship without food. Most will starve
before arriving.”
“Can we provide them food?”
“Not outright, but if you wish to
plant a tree of life in the forest, that is within the rules.”
“Pane to me!” Captain Zousan, the
top God in the Multiverse, demanded.
Pane popped in, still in his
sleeping shorts. Seeing the beautiful Athena, Zousan’s daughter, in the control
room, he had a great desire to pop out and get dressed. Only the dire situation
kept him in Control Central. “Sir, two parts of the future Soul-Bound of Three
are in danger of starving before getting to their ship in most of the
universes. Marybell says while the rules prohibit us from giving them food, we
can plant a tree of life in their path…only I don’t know the paperwork
necessary to get permission to do that.” He hung his head in shame. If only he
had been allowed to complete his studies before being made a shepherd.
“Fortunately, I have clearance to do
that,” Athena said before disappearing. Less than a minute later, the alarms
ceased screaming.
Both Captain Zousan and Pane
breathed out in relief.
After tapping on the console, Zousan
smiled. “Probabilities have returned to fifty-three percent.” Return to your
sleep time and thank Marybell for her clever solution.”
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Book 2: Surviving Outbound
Book 1: The Gods of Probabilities
About Author
Liza is a
multiple genre author of 15 novels. A Late Victorian Series, The Adventures of Xavier & Vic, plus
a spinoff, A Right to Love, is an ongoing series. A
Long Road to Love is a humorous Contemporary Disaster Romance series of
five books. She has two single books. One is a humorous, bad boys contemporary
novel with ghosts, called Ghost Lover,
the other is Untamed & Unabashed,
a spinoff from Jane Austen’s Pride and
Prejudice.
Now, she’s
rolling out her Science fiction series (with romance & humor) called The Multiverses. The first four books
are slotted for last half of 2015. In
addition she hopes, if she hasn’t dropped from exhaustion by then, to
re-release a sometimes humorous/suspense thriller called Saving Casey
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