This is part 19 of a storyjumper for Digital Writing Month. To read the story (so far), follow the links:
Part 1 Bruno’s blog started us off with a personal narrative.
Part 2 Kevin’s blog began the story.
Part 3 Maha’s blog continued…
Part 4 Sarah’s blog…
Part 5 Ron’s blog…
Part 6 Tanya’s blog…
Part 7 Kay’s blog…
Part 8 Ron’s blog…
Part 9 Dana’s blog
Part 10 Tania’s blog
Part 11 Maureen’s blog
Part 12 Sue’s blog
Part 13 Rhonda’s blog
Part 14 Yin Wah Kreher’s blog
Part 15 Scott’s blog
Part 16 Jeffrey’s blog
Part 17 Wendy’s blog
Part 18  Charlene’s blog
Part 19 Mariam’s blog
Things were not going exactly as planned. But that was actually part of their version of the plan. They put the time crystal down and looked up at each other, both nodding with the same sense of contentment. “I think they’ll be Ok” Kal* said. Kara** allowed a smile to sneak across her face as she said, “I think Wry just made that possible.” They didn’t need to say any more. As cousins, they had similar instincts and deeply understood that saving Earth was about helping the people of Earth to save themselves.
The idea that “time is a flat circle” was new evidence that these humans who they had chosen to bring along a little faster in the process, could ultimately understand a tesseract and hopefully become a part of the plan of their own free will. But the waiting and the nurturing through these steps was agonizing. There already were hints of the larger population’s understanding. That Madeleine L’Enge book with the chapter about the kid who understood a tesseract and its role in time travel. And that movie Interstellar with its bold sandwiching of so many of the complex ideas needed to see the universe in a new way. And Kevin and his CLMOOC friends with their openness to tinkering and rethinking technologies. There certainly was reason to hope.
Kal and Kara had broken away from the others at the Fibonacci Institute who wanted to “teach earth” and to “save Earth.” The planet was slowly moving into their galaxy’s fourth dimensional sphere and the people of Earth needed to be ready. A few centuries was not a long time when it came to space and time travel. So the two cousins had created the maps with their time and space altering abilities to help select humans learn how to handle the new sense of reality they would be living with. Kevin was just beginning to understand how it worked – kind of like that series of books about The Time Warp Trio. But he had already missed one important clue that they originally thought might have been too obvious. The hidden pattern in the paper the map was printed on was, in fact, a tessellation. By using a magnifying glass or even by soaking the map in water, one could see the pattern and, hopefully, make the connection to the larger universal concepts. Again Wry was helping them get there by suggesting that the 2nd map was not important. Yes, one would do. And indeed connecting rather than separating the people of Earth was going to be important in their ultimate ability to understand – and live in – the fourth dimension.
Suddenly the time crystal starting blinking again, their signal that Kevin and Sarah were on the move. Knowing their little troop of humans was headed to Hawaii had not not presented any urgency for Kal and Kara, but now their eyes opened wide when they saw the image in the crystal. What was happening??!!
*Kal is a descendant of Kal-El (later known as Superman), the son of  Jor-El. **Kara is a descendant of Kara Zor-El (later known as Supergirl)
 
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