Eva by Simon Winstanley

Author:Simon Winstanley [Winstanley, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781986977814
Published: 2018-09-08T22:00:00+00:00

PATIENCE

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Seated in the comfortable simulation of the Samphire Cottage living room, the Walkers were still assessing the results of their intervention and the bizarre array of temporal patterns they’d discovered as a result.

“So it never occurred to Archive to nest the Fields?” Kate asked her father.

“At the time, power generation was a limiting factor. The idea of running more than one Field at the same time, wouldn’t have occurred… didn’t occur… to me,” he placed the framed photo of a vibrant pink flower back on the shelf and shook his head, “I can see why you struggle with the tenses, Katie.”

“So what do we do now?” Monica leaned back into the sofa and put her feet up on the table, “Nothing to do and forever to do it.”

“Hardly,” Douglas sat down next to her, “We have to study the timelines in detail… work out the meaning of the new Boundary structures that we’re seeing.”

“I did spot something,” Kate sat down, “We’ve used hydrogen to manipulate things like water, ice, gas giants and inflections. So I thought I’d check out the energy levels.”

“Quantum variational method?” asked Douglas.

“Yes?” Kate frowned.

“Let me guess,” he smiled, “You spotted the correlation to Pi?”

“Exactly!” she smiled back, “But when you look at the new temporal patterns out there, the value of Pi is different.”

“Definitely lots to think about,” Douglas was nodding, his eyes bright with enthusiasm.

“You two…” Monica smiled at them both, “Reminds me of when you’d work on school projects together.”

The fire crackled in the grate; a happy memory fuelling its warmth.

Kate heard her mother sigh.

“It still bothers me,” Monica shrugged.

“What does?” Douglas put his arm around her.

“The interventions we’ve made…” she replied, “People have no clue that we’ve altered their actions to aid the greater plan. They live out their lives in sad ignorance of their contribution… at best, they might remember bits as coincidence or luck. Occasionally, we’ll see people who appear consciously aware of our guidance -”

“Like Westhouse?” said Kate.

“Exactly,” Monica nodded, “They can’t see the plan, but go along with it anyway. Do any of these people have free will?”

“Our actions so far have guided many of them away from paths that would have ended their lives,” Kate reminded her, “What free will would they have had then?”

“I know, I know. But should we be doing it? More to the point,” she pointed in the direction of the front door, “Given the new state of things out there, should we be continuing to do it?

“You’re not going to let me forget this,” Kate closed her eyes, “but I think I agree with you.”

“And I only had to wait a thousand lifetimes to hear the words,” Monica mocked her.

Kate sat down on the armchair opposite their sofa.

“When I was making my first interventions, the population was in rapid decline. I was dealing with a set of ever-reducing choices so things were, well… less complex. But five thousand years later?” Kate shrugged, “Our lunar intervention sparked a difference. Our control and influence is

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