God Game by Greeley Andrew M

Author:Greeley, Andrew M. [Greeley, Andrew M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Religion, Philosophy
ISBN: 9780312877507
Amazon: 0312877501
Goodreads: 769379
Publisher: Forge Books
Published: 1986-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

9

Another Visitor

That night seemed a perfectly normal Saturday evening at Grand Beach in the summer, less harried than some, but if I had not been alerted by Rich’s comment in the drugstore that morning I would not have speculated about energies rushing back and forth through the port.

Even then I was not ready for what happened next.

Why not close off the port and protect Grand Beach from possible harm?

A perfectly good question; that I didn’t ask it indicates how deeply I was involved in the game/story despite my externally normal behavior. Besides, thus far there was no reason to think Grand Beach was in danger, was there?

Today I’m inclined to think that while both grace and ungrace can pass back and forth between neighboring cosmoi, the energies are normally either benign or sufficiently weak as to do no serious harm. Joan Hagan had not been badly hurt, not nearly as seriously as poor N’Rasia. Moreover, if we are truly juxtaposed in a close, tenement-house superuniverse with another cosmos, one temporarily wider port is not going to increase notably the flow of spiritual energies between cognates in the two cosmoi.

It is perhaps a self-serving view of things, but it does seem to fit the data. Were things a little different in Grand Beach that weekend? OK, if Rich Daley says they were, then they were not greatly different, not so much that anyone besides a gifted political leader could notice.

If Grand Beach were under assault, I could always pull the plug, couldn’t I?

Besides, who knows how much energy may have leapt back and forth over Planck’s Wall every weekend of every summer for ages in that spot on the shore of Lake Michigan? It is not unreasonable to assume that the port was always there, in some less-defined fashion than my electronic linkup had temporarily created.

Nothing happened to Grand Beach, did it, that would not have happened anyway?

Well, maybe with one exception. And that may prove the speculation in the next paragraph.

There is another possibility that I was not considering at the time and which may be very important. If there was any sense or plan in all of this strange affair of the leaks in Max Planck’s Wall created by Nathan’s God Game, the key theme might be that finally the critical energy was curvilinear, like a boomerang. Or, to change the metaphor, maybe Grand Beach was a transformer on the energy circuit. Or to try yet again, perhaps it was the prism that refracted lights back to the other cosmos.

Arguably, as you shall see, just in the nick of time.

Well, the Brennans walked me home after the dinner party, as they always do. I felt quite relaxed and unworried. Joan Hagan was fine. N’Rasia was recovering. The peace negotiations and the romance between B’Mella and Lenrau were back on track. I was in control again of my material, so in control that I could enjoy the usual summer Saturday evening in Grand Beach without any serious distractions.

I had not much of the Irish Cream taken, not nearly as much as ’Rasia had in her visit, not by a long shot.

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