Dwarg In The Seventh Dimension :
The Aggie Kellor Experience
A Science Fiction Adventure by
Tony Lourensen
Dwarg In The Seventh Dimension: The Aggie Kellor Experience
Tony Lourensen
Copyright Tony Lourensen 2011
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Edition : First edition : Publisher : Tony Lourensen : shortys.book(at)optusnet.com.au
Front cover design by Allan Garner... allangarner(at)iprimus.com.au
Image of Native American girl by Martin Basmajian...https://www.angelfire.com/planet/myart/index.html
National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:
Title..............................Dwarg in the Seventh Dimension :
......................................The AggieKellor Experien
ISBN..............................9780646566917
eISBN............................9780646568904
Dewey Number.............A823.4
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE : VINCENT
CHAPTER TWO : SLIG
CHAPTER THREE : STEVEN
CHAPTER FOUR : EVA
CHAPTER FIVE : AGGIE
CHAPTER SIX : DWARG
CHAPTER SEVEN : EDNA
CHAPTER EIGHT : THE ROAD TO VERMONT
CHAPTER NINE : ACCEPTANCE
CHAPTER TEN : RICHMOND
CHAPTER ELEVEN : FREDERICK
CHAPTER TWELVE : DWARG AND EDNA
CHAPTER THIRTEEN : PUTNEY
CHAPTER FOURTEEN : JINGLE BELLS
CHAPTER FIFTEEN : SCHOOL
CHAPTER SIXTEEN : DAN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN : CLAIRE
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN : RITES
CHAPTER NINETEEN : PUZZLE
CHAPTER TWENTY : JANETTE
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE : PARIS
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO : ARLES
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE : MEGAN
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR : REVELATIONS
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE : LITTLE WILLIAM
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX : MEGAN’S PAINTING
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN : STEVEN RIP
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT : PROFESSOR LIEN
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE : ON THE ROAD AGAIN
CHAPTER THIRTY : RAMON
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE : S.S.J.H
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO : LITTLE BANG
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE : DEBRIEF
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR : RITES OF PASSAGE
EPILOGUE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALSO BY THIS AUTHOR
INTRODUCTION
Even before the now, Whisps did not consider Humans any more interesting than other organisms – they cared not that some Humans appeared to live out their existence differently, longer, harder or easier– it simply appeared to be a Human’s lot. Humans are born, exist, then don’t. Whisps saw most Humans as inquisitive, industrious and replicate, ensuring that the species survive. They are heavy and clumsy and unlike the Whisps, could not flitter or flux around the planet at will. Humans had no idea of the existence, let alone the concept of Whisps, and innocently went about their lives as humans do – yet Whisps were as close as an atom away from the Humans’ physical world, separated only by an invisible and unknown barrier. Whisps simply existed within the Aura - a space, an area between the planet and the extreme boundary of its atmosphere.
Quite often, some Humans would acknowledge an invisible world of spirits and supernatural beings, but Whisps were not supernatural creatures in that sense, they were natural in their own world, which just happened to be a non-physical world. Whisps were aware that Humankind was developing far above other species on the living planet – nevertheless, they were quite content to share the world in harmony with them. There was to become a time when all would have to change.
Occasionally, the Whisps would suffer upsets, and swirl around in uncontrollable chaos for no apparent reason – it was disturbing, yet most were rarely interested in reasons – they were just Whisps – and they were just there. They didn’t have rules or organisations or religion or any form of society. They could be an individual or a group, they had no restrictions to any physical or Human laws, including time, gravity, speed and they had no need for food or shelter, no need for emotions or reproduction – they were not at all like the Humans. Whisps were however, quite capable of communication between each other and if one chose to be an individual identity, it would have no impact on the rest. Not all Whisps were exactly the same, although in general, the differences were quite minimal.
To them, time was never seen as a “thing”, nor was it ever really needed in their being, but although time was not a restriction, it was becoming more and more of a tool that Whisps realised they needed to embrace.
Things were happening in their world of normal existence – Whisps were beginning to change, to think, and perhaps even evolve, and somehow, Humans were linked to these changes.
There were occasions where one or more Whisps would show more than a feint interest in the goings on of living creatures, in particular, the Humans. Whisps did not need to look or study themselves – they were perfect and quite neutral, yet something was upsetting the now and the harmonic balance was shifting in a way they could not comprehend.
The actual use of information gleaned from the Humans was something new in the makeup of Whisps, and a credit to those who had the will and persistence to flux around the planet, studying them.
Those Humans with a seemingly greater knowledge than others, firmly believed that their species, in fact all living things on the planet, had originated from a mixture of chemicals well before the now and that all living things were related. Others believe the species was created by an unknown non-physical power that controlled all aspects of their lives.Whisps well knew that living things did not originate from the one mix, but in time, the Humans would find the nexus of their origin.
It was strange to see that Humans regularly ended their or others’ own existence, sometimes in great numbers. Although other events on the planet also ended their brief existence in masses, it was by far, the many varied and microscopic organisms and viruses that attacked and prevented them from living an average Human lifespan. Ironically, Humans were the natural prey of these small microbes, and given all the advancement and machines to safeguard themselves, Humans still succumbed to these continual attacks on their lives.
Whisps would gain a great deal of information from the observations and studies which was shared equally, but that knowledge, however interesting, was just that, knowledge - there was nothing really that a Whisp could do with it. There were exceptions.
Events like a Swirl Chaos were things that happened, and these events were often repeated, so Whisps started to use time as a system of placing events in some sort of order- and it made sense. Collectively, the Whisps decided to use the mainly common Human system of reckoning time and timelines, even though there were many and probably better systems to use. Interestingly, not all Humans used this same system, but with observation and deduction, this was the system that would prevail with Humans, forward of the now
Of minor interest was the method and reason for starting the Human year count at zero, which was unclear and put down to some event in the Humans’ history. Whisps could never understand how the spacing, rhythm and divisions of Human time were calcul
ated initially. This was because Humans used concepts and tools that involved matters outside the planet’s Aura - yet it was a useful system and adapted by Whisps. No Whisp thought of the possibility of the end of time – it would not have concerned them anyway – that would be a physical thing – and to them, ironically, time was timeless.
The more the Whisps studied the Humans, the more they knew that in doing so, it would lead to a seemingly endless mass of complex and probable useless information. Amongst other vexations, was the Human counting and numbering system, which puzzled Whisps greatly – they tried to use the concept of mathematics in areas apart from time without great success.
Dwarg was perhaps the most inquisitive of the Whisps. It named itself Dwarg – not that it meant anything to the other Whisps - they had no reason for having names or for being individual, but Dwarg seemed to be able to adapt some of its knowledge of Humans to its own situation. It liked being an individual – there was nothing wrong with being a group, but it enjoyed being just that little bit different – the odd thing was that lately, it became to sense some strange and negative force from other Whisps. Strange indeed, as feelings or emotion was not in their makeup.
Dwarg enjoyed grouping with another inquisitive Whisp, whom it named Slig. Slig in fact did on some occasions, try to actively make some form of physical contact with the Humans and actually came close, but it reckoned that the consequences of its actions saw the Whisps again, swirl around in chaos. Although there were no rules or laws, the Whisps began to understand that there was cause and effect, and trying to attempt any type of physical involvement with Humans would not only disturb harmony, it may well have a catastrophic impact on the very existence of the now. Slig was very knowledgeable and understood that Human time was something always moving forward from the now. It was put to the wider group of Whisps that the first case of Swirl Chaos was in the Human time of 1942 followed by other, and sometimes worse episodes and noted that the Humans had been pushing “stuff” from the planet’s surface, beyond the Aura. On each of these events, there was a Swirl Chaos – and the rate was accelerating.
Slig could only find one ally who really cared enough to have an active interest - and that was Dwarg. Together they would postulate about things that happened in this or that Human’s life or the eternal question of why there is an Aura gap between their worlds. What would happen, they asked themselves, if there was contact with Humans? – would the physical world disappear? – would the Humans disintegrate? – how would Humans react to the realization that Whisps exist? – how come Whisps know Humans and their environment? – why don’t Humans know about Whisps? Until Swirl Chaos, these were questions that Whisps would never have a need of asking – until now. Slig and Dwarg agreed that the Humans were somehow responsible for the Swirl Chaos and a threat to the Aura, and something needed to be done.