<div class="floatleft"><div align="center">(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/cdc1/04s7432n614occi4g.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Chloe Dawson<br/>  ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾  </span></span></div></div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… each sister I do not know receives a gentle touch … check each quickly for the mutation that makes this possible … and for the highest moral standards … several do not receive the real drug … a necessary subterfuge, Carlotta assured me … a drop to each …  when I am done, I approach several who did not volunteer … they do not want this power, simple as that … too much temptation and they have made their decision … and those that do not have the mutation? … I assure them that I plan to work to learn the secret of the mutation to determine if it can be done safely … and finally, I can return to Kimmie … take her hand and lead her to Carlotta and Huguette … draw Mother and Tangie into our little circle …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “Kimmie, I gave you the drug because I believe it will have a beneficial effect on you. What that will be, I don’t know. I do know it will not harm you. Perhaps it will provide some form of Foresight and Hindsight, perhaps something else entirely. Right now, we need to do something that isn’t usually done. and that is to share Insight with you. This is not usually done when Sisters are also lovers, because knowing the other’s heart and soul in this way is too much for many to bear. Yet with you I need to share our child as she becomes conscious, which she will become in a tiny sense yet today and then she will grow into the wonderful and independent person needed for our times. But we need to both hold her as she becomes conscious and the only way to do that is Insight between us.”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… squeeze Kimmie’s hand … the others nod and remain silent …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “So I suggest we return to our room and Huguette with us to make the introduction. We will witness Isis become aware and hold her close. Then we need to pack because we’re leaving the country tonight. Tangie, please come with us. Your office and apartment were both destroyed overnight. Same people who destroyed my lab. Our condo will meet the same fate tonight. Mother, I suggest you return as soon as possible to be with Daddy. They will begin harassing him Monday. Carlotta, I would like you to accompany us tonight. It will be easier for you to get home to Italy from where we are going and you still need to initiate me as the Deputy to the Eldest. We do not have time here to do that yet need enough Sisters to witness. We will have sisters where we are going, most Isis descendants too. Huguette, please accompany us tonight too. Kimmie needs to be trained as quickly as humanly possible. You and Carlotta please choose one other to accompany us. We must be 7 and Isis is our seventh.”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… Tangie recovers quickly from the shock … Carlotta agrees … Mother is concerned … rest my hand on her arm …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “Mother, you and Daddy come through this just fine. And you will see your granddaughter grow and flourish.”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… Carlotta and Huguette finish a quick conversation … Carlotta will invite her … <br/><br/>… we go to our rooms … sit cross legged on the bed facing each other … I wait for Huguette to introduce me to Kimmie … she is as warm in my mind as she is in … hold my mind very still as she looks around … ‘we will see things in each other’s minds best ignored’ … ‘not that we hide things, even though we can’ … we all have history that includes lots of pain and ugliness’ … ‘we ignore our past often in ourselves and here we have to ignore the other’s past’ … ‘now, let’s go visit Isis’ … … sense Huguette depart … courtesy … take Kimmie’s figurative hand and lead her downward … show her the small cluster of cells attached to the side of my womb … the beginnings of our daughter … then I show her how to step out from the physical cells to the space where awareness will soon arrive … and all of a sudden, a tiny flash of light … ‘welcome, Isis’ … we say that together … surround the light with our own … our child sleeps … we retreat … and let go each other’s minds reluctantly …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “And now you know why we needed to be there together for her. She will soon enough become acquainted with Hindsight and Foresight, and before she is born she has no object references for any of the world we know. We are her interpreters until she can open her eyes and ears. She will be born knowing more about the world than any child before her.”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… we pack our meager belongings … knock at the door … it’s Mother …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “And how is my granddaughter? I’ve come to welcome her and to say goodbye for a while.”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… we enter a three way hug … I share with Mother my memory of the the first spark … let her feel through me the beginnings of life … I share with Kimmie and Mother my love for Daddy … we all shed tears as Mother departs … a short time later we’re packed … knock at the door … Huguette … announcing dinner … and we are to depart half hour before sunset … as we enter the dining room, all the Sisters present rise, including Carlotta … word has gone out and unwanted leadership has bee thrust upon little Chloe ,,, we proceed to the table with Carlotta and Huguette and Tangie and one other I do not know except from earlier in the day when I gave her the drug … place my palms together …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “Blessed Be, Sisters.”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… we sit … salads and tiny soups … vegetables and little protein … as it should be … have to keep bringing myself back to the dinner … my Foresight is seething …  Carlotta is speaking of integrating with the gift … she is apparently one of the few to have found the lynchpin … yes, it is all individual … Hindsight too … drift … Carlotta nudges me mentally … ‘you’ll lose yourself Chloe’ … ‘stay present and look forward, avoid immersion’ … ah, she has learned something and teaches me … good to have wise sisters …</em></span></span><br/>