The Horizon (#03-0)

    Helo, and Be welcome.

    This is my adventure Story #03 Solo.

    I had to chose very well a player to play these most hard and tough parts of my fiction, which will most be played during daytime. So, here comes the advice.

    This Story is intended to a mature audience.

    Please, relax and be ready to read a tough Story, in which pain and suffering, dubious events, death and psychological suspense gathers.

    About the Music :: I do not intend any offence to anyone's right, and I do not really own the music I suggest my readers listen during the Story; the suggestion is in honour to the musicians who created those beautiful songs, and I explicitly want to thank you very much.

    Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfWA4A39vAc&

    Story #03 Solo

    The Phenomenologist (Chapter One)

    Doctor Twistan Hyddeg woke up in the morning, in an usual day. It's friday. The wallclock shows nine o'clock in the morning, and he's inspecting his collection of dead bugs and insects, a breeze enters from the window, a natural wooden window which only can be found in this so rich neighborhood.
    The Hyddeg Hospital's located at the west and south Tol Rim, the biggest city in Akkoya.

    Akkoya's a central world, capital for the ejik races, and member of The Alliance together with the other two sister races, ikka and korochi.

    This is a very common and usual morning Friday at the mountains.

    He passes the day investigating pacient's files. Comparing the stats with other hospital's statistics, to decipher other physicist's methods. By three afternoon, he had to see a pacient who was crying, but the pacient could not say a word on what he was really feeling. So, Doctor Hyddeg ordered the nurse to sedate him, and take blood to make exams to see if he can find the real problem.

    The nurse knows Hyddeg's the best, and he knows he can find very subtle diseases by exams, by every medical and phylosophic methods, things no other doctor can do.

    Well, he knows also that Hyddeg keeps this and other things as secrects of the business.

    To work in Hyddeg's Hospital, you have to become as family. Every three doctor assistants, a woman in special, a very good neural linguist, is second in command. All twelve nurse, men and women, and the ambulance driver, they are all family.

    It has to be this way.

    Hyddeg takes the pacient blood and put into highly expensive devices. They're the most precious technology the empire can offer, and go back to his office.

    Hyddeg's Hospital only take cases when they're lost.

    And then, he receives a call.

    The Horizon (#03-0)

    Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRU8jAn6Kjc

    It's a couple, a man speaking and asking him to go their house. He says it's not a practice from the hospital, and who's the pacient. The man says they have a child, but it's not him, so as they could not explain what the problem is, or even what's their urgency, Doctor Hyddeg agree to have a meeting on the next morning. He passed the rest of the day analyzing stats, from Melch Lemetian, and Kora. He sometime later got to a conclusion, the korochi race knows much better than ikkas, how to deal with major demented lost cases. Stats show it all. Races are so distinct, it makes impossible to define everyone's method.

    (Dreaming)

    Twistan dreams with many many places, crying blood from the walls.

    He just can't count how many, and as soon as he tried to do anything counscious on the dreaming, he was in front of a sea wall, and talking with a fish.

    So, he wakes up, and it's six in the morning.

    (Day two)

    At the time of the meeting, nine o'clock, he gathered with the man and woman.

    They look simply disturbed. Paranoid, maybe. The man looks to his wife, who didn't say a word, all the time, and so they explained it's their house.

    The housekeeper's left just yesterday.

    - It's the house. It's bleeding. Bleeding from the walls.

    Doctor Hyddeg listens to them. He says it's not a practice from the hospital, but this is maybe an exception, and he will go and see.

    "Interesting,...", Hyddeg thought in silence.

    Saturday, 14:02, Mountains of Tol Rim

    The house is a small one, well, at least a small house in this area. Mostly houses in here are huge mansions, a huge number of manors, and a few very very old castles. The Zealot Wars destroyed most of the castles on Tol Rim, but some of 'em are still alive.

    Doctor Hyddeg's with a nurseman and the ambulance driver. The driver stays in the car. When entering the house, he notice it's reconstructed from two possible older constructions at the same place.

    There's a garden in the front, and an old tower on the left.

    Doctor Hyddeg takes a picture of it.

    He can see a workshop on the right, by the garage, eight cars, and the house is two floors high. He sees a camera on the highest tree, and no pets.

    - Helo, Doctor - says the man - We're happy you came. Come. This is our son Fyl, he's ten. You probably want to see,so please, this way.

    They went up the staircase on the starting left of the front corridor, to the second floor, and the man's nervous, same way he and his wife were on the meeting.

    - Well. This is it. (says the man). Room number five - and he opens the door, slowly.

    So, the door make a noise opening, to reveal a room covered in blood. From up til down. Every wall's bleeding, and the man swallowed with some disgusting traces on his face. Doctor Hyddeg looked it from out, and started to think how to deal with this, the best way possible. Then, he asks the man to wait down the entrance hall with his family, while he examines it, and sent his nurse with him.

    As soon as they went away, he started to analyze the phenomenon.

    The second floor has twelve rooms. There's a study office in front of each room, except for the first and second, for the first is an internal veranda from which you can see the entrance hall, the tea room on a side, a door the other, and so the entrance door, and the second's the staircase.

    Doctor Hyddeg look at the room, turning his detection on with a thought.

    He sees no magic in there. No signs of rituals. He touches the door, and feels nothing. There's a strong smell of rust, so it's probably blood, really. There's need of oxigen to do it, so it may be a presence, but no presence do this all by itself, he remembers studying this long ago.

    Entering the room, he turns off detection and concentrate in diagramation, and prepares his component to be used, if needed.

    There are drops falling, but furniture's not bleeding.

    Closed the door.

    Stoped by the centre of the room.

    There's no geometric pattern.

    Doctor Hyddeg puts his hand onto the blood, and entered attune state. He immediately sees, once beyond the fog, a large heart upside the room. It has no connection to the house walls. The heart's bleeding, so the blood on the walls are in fact part of a presence. All common phenomenologists would never see it, and presences would keep seen as improbable to every one of 'em, because they can't see this beyond. "Interesting,...", he thinks. He looked to the tower, opening the fog. It's a necropolis, being an old ruin it is. Right oke. The tower's grey blue. He looks to other places looking for blood, and he finds a media room, down the corridor, with blood on the wall, and so he looks to the boy. There's apparently nothing wrong with the boy. He tries to detect the blood and it's ejik, so he gets out of attune and clean the blood off his hands with a lone thought.

    Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8cNHnLXeA

    - And? What do you think, Doctor? - says the man - Do we need to move out?
    - It looks like a phenomenon - says the phenomenologist - I don't want to frighten you, but I can't lie to you and I must say I'm curious.

    He waited, to see their reaction.

    Everything may be important, so he asks for a blood test on the boy. The family agree, and the nurse takes it with maximum experience.

    The blood put onto a special sensitive bar, Hyddeg touched it.

    Detection says the boy has a blood deficiency and he's probably become diabetic in ten years. He keeps the information, and let the nurse says the analysis. Normal. It's not the same blood type as the walls, so the family comes to be a bit more easy now. He orders the nurse and he makes intelligence tests with the boy, to reveal he's a very good mathematic type intelligence.

    Hyddeg calls the man to the garden.

    - I'll get the case - says Doctor Hyddeg, observing the man's reaction.
    - Ohe. Thank you, Doctor. What do you think?
    - I don't give conclusions without knowing what it really is. I need you to go to a hotel. Your family will probably agree, and your son looks normal. I need to make some questions to him, and I need your permition. It helps him to answer.
    - Of course. You'll have it.
   - Good. Let's go.

    Back inside, the man explained his son he needed him to answer some questions.

    - Nurse.
    - Yes, Doctor.
    - Take notes on him. I need not what he's saying. I need his reactions.
    - As you wish, Doctor.

    The boy sitted, his family on his sides.

    - What's you name?
    - Fyl.
    - Good, Fyl. I need to ask some questions. Do you understand?
    - Yes.
    - How old are you, Fyl?
    - I'm ten.
    - When was the first time you saw it?
    - I was studying, and so I went to bed and a drop fell on my pillow.
    - And what did you do?
    - I,... got to call my mon.
    - Loud?
    - Yes.
    - When did it happened?
    - One week ago. One week and one day ago.
    - Did someone else saw it?
    - My babysitter, I mean, our housekeeper. She's left yesterday.
    - And where did you sleep the next day?
    - On room eleven.
    - Did you sleep well? Did you had any dream? Tell me.
    - I dreamt I was a fish.
    - Do you like pets?
    - We had a cat, but it died five years ago - "Hmm,... he knows what's to die,...", the Doctor thinks.
    - When and where did it happened the second time?
    - I was studying, and it bled in front of me.
    - So, you felt no fear?
    - No. Well, not the second time.
    - And then, where did you sleep the next day?
    - My parent's room, room twelve.
    - And it was oke?
    - They said it was safe, so I was not worried.
    - Why the housekeeper left?
    - I think,... she was really affraid.
    - Did you know what it all was, or your parents explained to you?
    - No. No one explained. I didn't know what it was.
    - And the third place?
    - It was at the media room. I was seeing a movie, and so I looked back and it was bleeding.
    - Why did you look back?
    - I don't know. I just looked, and runned away.
    - Why?
    - Because it was blood.
    - How did you know?
    - I don't know - he was a bit nervous, notices Hyddeg.
    - Now, Fyl. I need  to ask you not to touch your family, while I make questions. Stay quiet. Oke? (he nodded). Yes. I need you to close your eyes, and describe the third time. Exactly what you saw, step by step. So, now close your eyes, Fyl. Did you felt smoke sign. Any smell?
    - No.
    - Tell what happened.
    - I was,... watching a movie,...
    - What movie?
    - One with a cat. I don't know. I just looked back and runned away.
    - Why did you run?
    - Because it was blood.
    - Why did you look?
    - I don't know,... because I was affraid.
    - Why?
    - I,... was affraid of dying.
    - You can open your eyes, now. Get closer to your parents. Right oka.

    Doctor Hyddeg takes this special case, April 2.056, Akkoya.

    Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=bf__T33gLu0

    He explained the man he's going to need a databank with all the information which could be necessary to do the investigation. The family moves to a hotel, and by night, Doctor Hyddeg was in charge of the house. The man had give all the house codes, and keys.

    The way back, going to the hospital, Hyddeg asked the nurse what's he noticed.

    - The boy's too concentrated for his age. But as you asked for my personal opinion too, I'll have to say I think he knew what it was before looking to it. Well,... I'm a caretaker, not a doctor.
    - No, no. It's good. You're going to make a comparison with two records I'm going to send you. No, no. Better. You're just going to make a record with this you took note.
    - Yes, Mal-ec.

    Before going the house, Doctor Hyddeg talks with the woman doctor, his sencond in command.

    - I'll let you on the command, Doctor.
    - Yes, Mal-ec. We'll be here, if you need anything.

    (Day Two - Nighttime - Saturday)

    At 17:45, Doctor Hyddeg assumes the house.

    He saw the man, wife and boy leaving their home, at the time dusk came. Night is a step ahead. For a moment, he stays in there, and looks to the house.

    It comes the night.

    The house's a sinister sight, knowing and not what's inside.

    Twistan carries a wheel bag and uses a white coat. He remembers the words he just said the family, "I'll let you know", but he had to say that.

    - Pe-kay. Start to record everything.
    - That will exhaust memory in about five days, master - says the computer, in a serious man's voice.
    - I know. At least, I'll have to be happy for being a doctor and have the best computer the Alliance can make, so thank you. And start recording everything, as I said.
    - Yes, master.

    The house owner said there's not a room he cannot enter, he thinks.

    A somewhat cold breeze passes through the garden.

    By entering the house, he lighted the entrance hall, and went to the tea room and lighted it too. First, accomodations. And he goes upstairs. At the fifth room, he stops. No sound. The room twelve's clean, but a number of pictures, all digital, stant in the study table. He don't need this displays, and turn 'em off. Put the luggage on the bedside, and remembering all he just saw, using diagramation. With the power on, he walked the second floor, to notice the room five study room is just upside the media room, and this is what he knows now.

    Doors one to four, nice places to keep a sick person. Door five, nice place to a single, and terrible place to a couple, and he can imagine why. Nothing on door six. Door seven, all that was good has ended as the day after a party, but there's no nice sensations in there. Doors eight to ten, complete normality. Door eleven, getting out of the stress situation. Door twelve, balanced energy, but it's not the perfect place for a couple, for it involves negative emotion energies.

    At the end of the corridor, the bathroom, normal, and the sideroom, normal.

    He turn off diagramation and goes to the window. So, he sees the suite is built upside a ruin, and goes to the other sideroom with relaxing ambient, to see it's also upside a ruin, so the bathrooms one and two at the suite are all an old ruin, same as the tower.

    - Pe-kay, open a hologram of this second floor - and he explains all he understood to the computer, and asks it to analyze throughout the walls.
    - There is conduit energy on this wall, between here and room eleven. Room five, also. In here, there is the same matter, but more insubstantial, down the bed.

    Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5absmIJN24

    He takes it, and put into a flask.

    - Mark room five as evidence one. Study room five as evidence two. The media room as evidence three. These places where I can find conduit in formation, evidence four. And let's start to look for evidence five.

    There's a pool, seen from the suite, and there are engeneering, math and art books on the shelves, and just to remember only collectors have books.

    He walks outside, at the back and side garden.

    There's a very old tree, a stone wall the same type the tower, and a circle stone garden.

    "I like this stone circle,...", he thinks.

    Gettinf to the stone garden, a circle with rocks, he touched it and imediately saw himself being burnt into a fire, in a similar way monotheists used to burn people who used to do magic. He thought himself screaming magic words, which had no effect.

    He stand up again, and listen to his Pk voice.

    - What happened? Your blood pressure's down. Starting to get back normal, now.
    - Someone being burnt - he says in low tone, the face frowned.

    It's 20:09 now, and he decides not to enter the tower, right now, and he needs to see the office first.

    - Mark the stone circle as evidence five. The tower as evidence seven, and the wall as evidence six. I don't think we're going to need more. Actually maybe,...

    Twistan Hyddeg started to get really happy, at this very moment.

    The stone wall is 13 normeasures wide, in contrast with the 17 normeasures for the tower. He went back the entrance hall, passing down the back entrance to the house, down the sideroom upstairs, and opened the office, to notice a miskarke flying squirrel, stuffed. It had the name of the family founder, Mýlwyèc Teatwýn, year 302, and so this is coming to be a very very interesting investigation. Asking the computer, who has now the databank on the family, the Pk says Mýlwyèc was an astrophysic navigation and old starfleet engeneer, and he has the habit of travelling ruins and old temples. "Very interesting,...", he thinks.

    The new parts of the construction are 150 years old.

    He goes to the tower.

    The tower entrance is at the office, finally found. The old trick of a book giving passage to it,... There's no door, but the self which gives passage moving left ("Northeast", he thinks, "Ryklant? Abbas, maybe"). There are no middle parts on the tower, which should be it's seven floors. It's 21 normeasures high. Trying not to fall, he walks the side staircase up there.

    There's a circlet, where to put a bell at the top and middle.

    And no way to come there.

    He looks down and sees a cat, watching from down. "He'll disapear, if I go down,...", he thinks and ignore the cat, to investigate the place to put a bell. It would have been a huge bell. Bronze, probably. He asks the Pk, and it says the family had a black cat, and it's name was Babbèc (my friend, in Oka). There are 17 windows at the tower, he starts to calculate metaphysics. He looked and the cat disapeared. Right. He gets down, and sees a window at the base, which goes front to the circle stone garden.

    "It's a gear", he thinks in conclusion to all that.

    He stays by the entrace, and enter attune state, to have the feeling this is infinite up and down, so he gets back and close the shelf passage.

    He went to room five, with a bucket, and collected the blood.

    Back to the tower, up there, the blood proved to be the oil to the gear, and he says to the Pk to play the loudest sound he could give of a bell, thirteen chimes. Nothing. "This is not the way to do it", he concluded. So, he gets back and get more blood, goes to the outside walls and start to calculate again. He's pretty sure this is it, but he must calculate precisely.

    Tower, 17 m,... heart, third floor, invisible,... 9 m,... 5 and 9 are together,... secret is heart,... 5 from the room, 6 the stone garden, 11,... room 11,... it comes here by an hour,... tower, 7 floors,... it comes from here, it goes here,... if 9 is here, 8 is the tower diameter,... right,... 17,... so, the wall's connected to the heart, but it's invisible,... it's missing something in the tower,... eight o'clock,... ritual's on 6,... so 4,... so 1,... it's probably activated at eight o'clock,... can't see a day of the week,...

    He levitated the blood and put it to the wall, equally.

    So, walks nine normeasures off the wall.

    Geometric forms started to appear on the wall, so he turned diagramation on. He interpreted the lines, and came to the conclusion all parts must be connected to the portal to open.

    "A Trade Network group would try to destroy this all,... how could they do something like that?" he thought, almost feeling anger.

    He came to the conclusion the house would come alive.

    - How,... - he started - do I do to complete the Ritual? And I'm here to create you, and not to undo the Ritual.

    The wall lines answered all parts of the house must be put together. And if the ritual's done now, the house would be incomplete.

    - How do I complete the Ritual?

    The lines indicate a date, long ago, when the sacrifice has been done, and eight more years are needed to complete the Ritual. The life and diagnose can be activated, and the native family will give the house it's personality, but only do that if the family has the proper desired personality.

    - How do I do the connections within the house?

    The lines indicated a series of sacrifices, of naemons, a mythis legend of animals who played the part of a familiar, a magic animal bounded to the caster.

    - Cats? Cats will do it? The sacrificed cat still stays in the house?

    The lines indicate yes, and they'll become naemons to the house, to protect it.

    - I'm here to activate the Ritual, and I'm not in the Ritual. The other places, I already know they exist, I need to know where they are. I'll do what's needed, and I want knowledge in exchange.

    Music :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EQ6eHeBrhM

    The lines explained he can learn how to accept a naemon.

    So, the lines disapeared, gradually.

    Doctor Hyddeg stays at the gardens, thinking. Cats are easy. A bell, a large bronze bell, will be much more of a difficult task.

    He goes the tea room, and make tea before going sleep.

    (Day Three)

    Doctor Hyddeg has a dream.

    He dreams being awakened into the house. He sees may people, faceless, into each room he enters, and feels they haven't given a face because the native family hasn't been chosen yet. He remembers a legend. From the old Akkoya's mythology. There was a race of castles, called castlepeople, but he also remembers this is only a legend, a legend that maybe make much more sense now. Also, the spirit race, called naemons. They're another legend, dated back five thousand years in the past, when all naemons died. He knows, as a phenomenologist, this is a huge and very common legend, which goes from galaxy to galaxy, through time and space.

    Then, he wakes up, take a shower, and have breakfast.

    Room 5 is still dripping blood.

    His driver came twenty minutes after he called him, saying he needs to go downtown Tol Rim. While waiting, he searched for blood and houses on the network. Nothing. Lucky him, who knows not all data's stored forever, for the space needed to do that would be so expensive, it would more easy to have a fighter race and start to conquere the whole universe.

    He goes downtown, and buys a cat, with much care, to sound he needs a new friend. He just convinced himself, before doing that.

    The medic in chief passes him all reports, and it's all oke.

    He starts to analyze all his better options amongst his pacients. He has one, he's studying magic resistence, with not much advance, for he's the highest magic resistance level, ejik, male, 29, a perfect psychopath, with dreams of power over the people, wasted in here by his family influence; they pay well. He's a flawless profile. Doctor Hyddeg writes a letter to his family, saying he's much better, and living at the hospital won't do any more good to him, so he needs a normal life, of course with the hospital's help, and family's really needed. He says the house must be near the hospital, to make it easier.

    Also, Hyddeg writes a message to the house owner, saying it's better if they move on to another place. They can still live at that house, but as the family has a child, this can be no good. He added he hope they understand he's only a doctor, and as a doctor I hope all my pacients have the more normal life possible. This is the complete diagnostic, and the honoraries will be sent in another message.

    Now, the most terrible thing, he needs to wait.

    Sometime later, he receives a message, saying "We thank you very much. We decided to sell the house, because our son desearves a normal life. Thank you; Dul Teatwýn", and that's going the right way.

    He went to have his lunch, normally, and that afternoon came the answer.

    "We found a buyer, and we'll buy a better house. Dul Teatwýn", he sent a high honorary for the work, eight thousand credits, and a few hours later, almost night, the confirmation he was waiting for.

    "Helo, Doctor Hyddeg. We bought a house near the hospital. Here's the address. We have not gone to visit yet, but you can have the keys as soon as our agent can give it to you. Could you move my son to the new house, because we're only be able to visit him the next week? Thank you. Duke of Mellaton", and his immediate thought was a very well hidden one.

    "That's very good. That's why the military brought you here, my dear chosen one,... It's very good to know I have a Duke in my hands,...", and he didn't show the smaller reaction to that, as always.

    He just writes a very good answer and sends it.

    Then, he sends a messanger speederbiker to get the keys to the family, and waited, while preparing the pacient with his special blood magic, to make him completely normal for two weeks. He'll need the normal him, to make the house have the perfect personality.

    By dusk, the keys got back to him, and he ordered the nurse to prepare the pacient.

    One hour later, he, the pacient and a catling came to the house.

    He prepared the native occupier, with drugs. Waited until 19:30 to go the wall outside, with blood taken the same way before. Than, followed the instructions on diagramation. He put the pacient to sleep on room eight, for he knows no phenomenologist will look in there, after looking the numbers into the house. Then, he looked to the catling, and with a knife he made the sacrifice. The cat got fire, inside the circle of stone rocks, and he lost physical form, as soon as the sacrifice was complete, vanishing together with the indigo fire. He immediately feels a difference, but had to go room number 5 to notice the house has a slight breath, very calm, like it was sleeping. He made his room twelve, and prepared to sleep, having some tea with cookies.

    (End of Session)

    Some Considerations necessary

    How many more houses as this one are there to be found?

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